2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
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2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
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Genesis 19:2
and he said, “See now, my lords, please come into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”
Genesis 19:3
He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Luke 14:23
“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luke 19:6
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke 19:7
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
Luke 19:9
Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Luke 24:29
They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
John 4:40
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
Acts 16:15
When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
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Leviticus 25:8
“ ‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
Leviticus 25:9
Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
Leviticus 25:10
You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Leviticus 25:11
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
Leviticus 25:12
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
Leviticus 25:13
“ ‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25:50
He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
Leviticus 25:51
If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Leviticus 25:52
If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
Leviticus 25:53
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Leviticus 25:54
If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
Numbers 36:4
When the jubilee of the children of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
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Deuteronomy 20:10
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
2 Samuel 20:18
Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.
2 Samuel 20:19
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
2 Samuel 20:20
Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel 20:21
The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
2 Samuel 20:22
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
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1 Samuel 2:1
Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
Isaiah 54:2
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Zechariah 14:14
Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
2 Corinthians 6:6
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 10:15
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
Revelation 21:26
and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
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1 Samuel 17:47
and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”
1 Samuel 18:17
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.
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1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Acts 7:25
He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
Acts 15:7
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
Philippians 2:30
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
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2 Kings 17:13
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
2 Chronicles 36:15
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place;
Nehemiah 9:15
and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
Nehemiah 9:29
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
Jeremiah 44:4
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
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1 Chronicles 29:2
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
2 Corinthians 8:4
begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
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2 Chronicles 19:11
Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”
Revelation 17:14
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
Revelation 19:14
The armies which are in heaven, clothed in white, pure, fine linen, followed him on white horses.
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2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Jeremiah 26:13
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
Luke 13:34
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
Acts 26:29
Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
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Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
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Psalms 95:9
when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
Psalms 95:10
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “They are a people who err in their heart. They have not known my ways.”
Psalms 95:11
Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
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Proverbs 8:4
“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
Proverbs 9:4
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Proverbs 9:5
“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Isaiah 55:1
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Matthew 11:27
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Matthew 22:3
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
Luke 14:17
He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’
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Job 39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Isaiah 65:23
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 22:4
Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’
John 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.
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Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
James 4:13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
James 4:14
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
James 4:15
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
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Song of Solomon 2:10
My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
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Song of Solomon 2:13
The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give out their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” Lover
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Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Isaiah 55:11
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
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Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Luke 10:5
Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
Luke 10:6
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Acts 10:36
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—
Ephesians 2:17
He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
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Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
Luke 4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
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Ezekiel 6:8
“ ‘ “Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
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Haggai 1:15
in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
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Matthew 2:2
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
Acts 15:3
They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 16:9
A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
Acts 18:11
He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:29
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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Judges 5:23
‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’
2 Chronicles 24:2
Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Mark 4:16
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root. They believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
John 8:31
Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
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Acts 14:8
At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
Acts 14:9
He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
Acts 14:10
said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
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Acts 1:17
For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Acts 4:30
while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
Acts 8:5
Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.
Acts 8:6
The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
Acts 18:8
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
1 Corinthians 2:5
that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
2 Corinthians 1:15
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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Acts 26:16
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you;
1 Corinthians 2:4
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
Philippians 4:15
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
Hebrews 13:19
I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
2 John 1:5
Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
Revelation 22:21
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Luke 16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
Acts 20:21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
Acts 20:22
Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
Acts 20:25
“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.
Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
Acts 20:27
for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 26:26
For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
2 Timothy 2:25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
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Hosea 9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Acts 18:4
He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
Acts 18:13
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 20:20
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Acts 28:23
When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
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Jeremiah 13:15
Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
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2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Matthew 10:14
Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
Matthew 20:1
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 25:29
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
Luke 2:40
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Acts 16:14
A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
Romans 11:13
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
Romans 11:14
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Romans 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
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Luke 1:2
even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
Luke 12:48
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Romans 1:12
that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Romans 12:19
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Philippians 2:26
since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
Colossians 1:25
of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
1 John 3:18
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
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Matthew 10:20
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Matthew 10:40
“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
Acts 11:1
Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts 13:42
So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 18:9
The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Romans 15:15
But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
Galatians 2:8
for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
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Acts 24:24
After some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
Romans 16:12
Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:14
I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
1 Corinthians 4:15
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
2 Corinthians 1:2
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:1
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
Colossians 4:7
All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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Matthew 13:27
The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’
Romans 12:3
For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
Romans 12:6
having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:6
There are various kinds of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.
1 Corinthians 12:28
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
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Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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1 Corinthians 16:11
Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 2:7
so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
2 Corinthians 7:7
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
2 Corinthians 9:5
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
2 Corinthians 12:21
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
Philippians 2:22
But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
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Romans 16:21
Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.
2 Corinthians 2:8
Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians 8:6
So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
2 Corinthians 8:23
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:2
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:18
I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
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Mark 13:34
“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 5:12
By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
2 Corinthians 3:2
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
2 Corinthians 3:3
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
1 Thessalonians 1:5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
2 Timothy 1:11
For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
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John 1:16
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
Ephesians 1:7
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
Ephesians 1:11
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:6
whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;
Titus 3:7
that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 5:12
Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
Revelation 22:11
He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
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Romans 3:24
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:18
So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
Romans 5:21
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:8
which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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Proverbs 16:3
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
Philippians 4:6
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
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Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
John 16:9
about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 1:6
You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
2 Timothy 2:5
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Philemon 1:2
to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
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Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 68:11
The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
John 12:36
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
Acts 8:4
Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
Acts 13:46
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
Hebrews 2:4
God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:15
while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
Hebrews 4:7
he again defines a certain day, “today”, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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Romans 6:14
For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 8:32
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Galatians 4:5
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children.
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Ephesians 1:20
which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 John 4:9
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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