1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 24:40
He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
Exodus 18:20
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Leviticus 18:4
You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 6:2
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.
Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalms 128:1
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
Leviticus 24:15
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
Numbers 15:35
Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
Numbers 27:6
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 27:7
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers. You shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
Numbers 27:8
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
Numbers 27:9
If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
Numbers 27:10
If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
Numbers 27:11
If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’ ”
Numbers 36:6
This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them be married to whom they think best, only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.
Numbers 36:7
So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel move from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may each possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:9
So shall no inheritance move from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.’ ”
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Leviticus 22:31
“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 4:40
You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 8:1
You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 12:32
Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
Deuteronomy 30:16
For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Joshua 22:5
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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Numbers 16:15
Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
2 Corinthians 7:2
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Corinthians 12:16
Even so, I myself didn’t burden you. But you might say that being crafty, I caught you with deception.
2 Corinthians 12:17
Did I take advantage of you by anyone of those whom I have sent to you?
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 Peter 1:16
For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 19:37
“ ‘You shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’ ”
Numbers 15:40
so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 4:8
What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?
Deuteronomy 4:23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
Deuteronomy 4:45
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 5:1
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6:20
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
Deuteronomy 26:16
Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Ezekiel 11:20
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Deuteronomy 6:6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Deuteronomy 6:7
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Deuteronomy 6:9
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
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1 Kings 3:14
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
1 Kings 8:25
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
1 Kings 9:4
As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,
1 Kings 11:4
When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
1 Kings 11:6
Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:38
It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
1 Kings 14:8
and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
1 Kings 15:5
because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
2 Chronicles 7:17
“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,
2 Chronicles 7:18
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Proverbs 20:7
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
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Exodus 19:7
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
Exodus 21:1
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
Exodus 24:3
Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
Exodus 24:4
Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:14
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
2 Kings 23:3
The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before Yahweh to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
2 Chronicles 34:31
The king stood in his place and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
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2 Chronicles 17:4
but sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
Zechariah 3:7
“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
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Job 1:7
Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
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Psalms 19:5
which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
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Psalms 92:13
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
Psalms 92:14
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 26:1
Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Psalms 31:23
Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Psalms 34:9
Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Psalms 97:10
You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Proverbs 4:10
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Mark 12:23
In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”
John 3:33
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
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Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Luke 19:48
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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Psalms 25:4
Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Psalms 25:5
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Psalms 143:10
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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Proverbs 22:19
I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in Yahweh.
Proverbs 22:20
Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
1 Kings 3:10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings 3:11
God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice,
1 Kings 3:12
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
Psalms 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Psalms 119:7
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:12
Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 143:8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Isaiah 30:21
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Jeremiah 6:16
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 42:3
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
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Ezekiel 2:8
But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”
Ezekiel 3:1
He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”
Ezekiel 3:2
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
Ezekiel 3:3
He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 3:10
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.
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Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Matthew 28:19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Luke 17:5
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
John 1:16
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
Romans 15:20
yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Ephesians 4:30
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 5:10
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 45:24
They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
Isaiah 45:25
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
Jeremiah 23:6
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Zechariah 10:12
I will strengthen them in Yahweh. They will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
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Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
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.”
Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
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Matthew 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
Matthew 13:32
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
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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.
Mark 4:18
Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
Mark 4:19
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
Deuteronomy 27:1
Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.
Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Isaiah 56:6
Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
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Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
John 14:24
He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Ephesians 4:20
But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
Ephesians 4:21
if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
2 Peter 3:2
that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
1 John 2:5
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
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Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until midnight.
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Acts 20:11
When he had gone up, had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
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John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 17:8
for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
Acts 24:16
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
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.
Hebrews 3:5
Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
Hebrews 5:9
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
1 Peter 2:5
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
1 John 3:21
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
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John 12:48
He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
Philippians 3:21
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
1 Thessalonians 5:1
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
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.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 5:1
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
2 Peter 3:11
Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
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Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Ephesians 2:22
in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 John 4:6
We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
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1 Corinthians 7:25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 7:32
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1 Corinthians 7:40
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 8:7
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 2:10
Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
1 Timothy 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
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Matthew 22:21
They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
1 Corinthians 11:2
Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
Galatians 6:16
As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Ephesians 5:1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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Mark 4:8
Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Acts 15:41
He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
Acts 18:23
Having spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 5:7
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
Titus 2:8
and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
Jude 1:17
But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 1:4
I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 1:5
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge—
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 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
2 Corinthians 9:13
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
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.
Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
1 Thessalonians 1:7
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.
Philemon 1:6
that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
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Galatians 1:6
I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
Galatians 1:7
but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
Galatians 1:8
But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
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.
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 3:2
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
Galatians 5:7
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
Galatians 6:17
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
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1 Corinthians 15:24
Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.
1 Corinthians 15:28
When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
Philippians 2:9
Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
Philippians 2:10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
Philippians 2:11
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Ezra 7:6
this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 30:2
“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
Acts 2:41
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 11:1
Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:16
Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
Titus 2:7
In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
2 Peter 1:4
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
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2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
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John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
Titus 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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.
1 Peter 1:15
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,
1 Peter 1:16
because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
1 Thessalonians 4:17
then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
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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.”
Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
1 Corinthians 5:4
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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.
Philippians 2:5
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 2:1
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men,
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
1 John 3:24
He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
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Daniel 12:6
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
Daniel 12:12
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.
Malachi 1:13
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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Luke 3:18
Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
Acts 13:15
After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
1 Corinthians 14:3
But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:12
So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
1 Thessalonians 5:27
I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
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 10:25
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
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1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
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Luke 4:43
But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
1 Corinthians 15:50
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
Galatians 5:21
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
Ephesians 5:5
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
2 Thessalonians 1:5
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
1 Peter 4:3
For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
1 Peter 4:4
They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
1 Peter 4:5
They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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1 Peter 5:9
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
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Revelation 1:13
And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.
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Revelation 2:1
“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
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