1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
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1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
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Genesis 3:5
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Deuteronomy 13:1
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
Revelation 2:6
But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Revelation 2:15
So also you likewise have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
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Genesis 43:12
and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
2 Corinthians 8:21
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
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Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
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Judges 19:30
It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
Judges 20:7
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
Job 34:36
I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
1 Corinthians 6:2
Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians 6:3
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians 6:4
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
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1 Samuel 17:39
David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off.
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2 Samuel 7:3
Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”
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1 Kings 3:10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
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 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.
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Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
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Proverbs 3:21
My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 4:8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
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Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 14:15
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
Proverbs 14:18
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Acts 13:7
who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
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Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Proverbs 25:19
Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
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Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Psalms 37:27
Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
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 101:3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 139:21
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Psalms 139:22
I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Romans 7:15
For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:16
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
Proverbs 21:21
He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Isaiah 51:1
“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Romans 14:19
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
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.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
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.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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Isaiah 53:8
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
John 10:11
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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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 55:2
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 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.
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Jeremiah 6:27
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.
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Jeremiah 31:30
But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
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Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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.
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
Acts 18:5
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
Romans 10:9
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
1 Corinthians 14:39
Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
Colossians 3:4
When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
1 Timothy 4:6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
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Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Matthew 7:18
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Matthew 7:19
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
1 Corinthians 2:11
For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.
1 Corinthians 14:28
But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself and to God.
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Mark 7:14
He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Mark 7:15
There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
Mark 7:16
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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Matthew 23:9
Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Luke 6:39
He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
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John 4:29
“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”
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Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,
3 John 1:11
Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
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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.’
Acts 2:42
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Romans 14:1
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
Romans 14:23
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
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Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
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.”
John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Romans 2:18
know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Acts 15:32
Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
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.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
1 Timothy 1:4
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.
1 Timothy 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
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Galatians 2:11
But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Galatians 2:12
For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
Galatians 2:13
And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
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Colossians 4:16
When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
1 Thessalonians 5:27
I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
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Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
2 Thessalonians 2:6
Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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2 Thessalonians 3:17
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter. This is how I write.
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1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
1 Timothy 3:10
Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
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Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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.
Revelation 3:14
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
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Acts 20:30
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Romans 16:17
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
2 Corinthians 1:13
For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—
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.
Colossians 2:4
Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
James 1:8
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 2:21
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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