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;
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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;
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Genesis 4:1
The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
Genesis 38:26
Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
Job 4:5
But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
Job 34:31
“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Job 34:32
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
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Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Leviticus 26:3
“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,
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,
2 Chronicles 31:20
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 15:1
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Psalms 106:3
Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
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Leviticus 3:1
“ ‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:2
He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
Leviticus 3:3
He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
Leviticus 3:4
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:5
Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:7
If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before Yahweh;
Leviticus 3:8
and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
Leviticus 3:9
He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
Leviticus 3:10
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:11
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:12
“ ‘If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:13
He shall lay his hand on its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
Leviticus 3:14
He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
Leviticus 3:15
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:16
The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh’s.
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Leviticus 3:17
“ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
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Numbers 11:4
The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
Numbers 11:34
The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
Psalms 78:18
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Psalms 78:30
They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
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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 5:32
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
Nehemiah 10:29
joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
Psalms 119:17
Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
Psalms 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:126
It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
Ezekiel 11:12
You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes. You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.” ’ ”
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
Deuteronomy 13:7
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—
Deuteronomy 13:8
you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
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Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:2
and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4
If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
Deuteronomy 30:5
Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:7
Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 30:8
You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
Deuteronomy 30:9
Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
Deuteronomy 30:10
if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Deuteronomy 32:18
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Isaiah 1:2
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
Malachi 2:10
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 20:3
David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.
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Nehemiah 9:1
Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
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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 26:2
Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
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Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Proverbs 20:7
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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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.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Ephesians 5:15
Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
Hebrews 8:11
They will not teach every man his fellow citizen and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Psalms 33:18
Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,
Psalms 33:22
Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.
Psalms 146:5
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God,
Jeremiah 17:7
“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Romans 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 8:24
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
1 Peter 1:8
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
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Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Proverbs 1:15
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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Proverbs 4:24
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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Psalms 49:1
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
Psalms 49:2
both low and high, rich and poor together.
Psalms 49:3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.
Psalms 50:1
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
Proverbs 8:4
“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
Matthew 11:15
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 37:27
Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
Proverbs 9:11
For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.
Proverbs 10:16
The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
Proverbs 11:19
He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
1 Peter 3:10
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
1 Peter 3:11
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.
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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Proverbs 31:3
Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
Proverbs 31:5
lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!
Ecclesiastes 10:17
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Isaiah 28:6
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isaiah 28:7
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
Mark 6:18
For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
Mark 6:20
for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”
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.”
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Isaiah 11:6
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
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Isaiah 11:7
The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
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Isaiah 30:11
Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Isaiah 41:14
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 43:1
But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
Isaiah 43:3
For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”
Isaiah 45:21
Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
Isaiah 49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Isaiah 60:16
You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Hosea 13:4
“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
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Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 51:11
Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Luke 1:69
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
Luke 1:73
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
Luke 24:47
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Acts 3:18
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 10:43
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
Titus 1:3
but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
Hebrews 7:27
who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:26
or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
Jude 1:25
to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
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Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
Psalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
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.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
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 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Revelation 12:1
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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Isaiah 56:2
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
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,
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Isaiah 56:8
The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”
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Psalms 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Isaiah 28:19
As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
Ezekiel 3:21
Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
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.
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Colossians 3:11
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
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Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
Isaiah 30:22
You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
Jeremiah 16:18
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
Ezekiel 11:18
“ ‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
Ezekiel 11:21
But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 37:23
They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 42:7
The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, was fifty cubits long.
Ezekiel 42:8
For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits. Behold, those facing the temple were one hundred cubits.
Hosea 14:8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
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Ezekiel 18:5
“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
Ezekiel 18:9
has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 18:15
who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 18:16
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:17
who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:19
“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
Ezekiel 18:24
“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
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Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel 5:2
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him, that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
Daniel 5:3
Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
Daniel 5:4
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
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Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
Daniel 6:23
Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
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Psalms 88:1
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 11:5
Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 51:7
“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
Isaiah 59:21
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
Isaiah 60:21
Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
Acts 2:39
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
Acts 26:20
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
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Jeremiah 3:1
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ ” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:14
“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
Hosea 14:4
“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.
Zechariah 1:3
Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
Zechariah 1:4
Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
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Micah 5:10
“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.
Micah 5:11
I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
Micah 5:12
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
Micah 5:13
I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
Micah 5:14
I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
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Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 5:15
Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
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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 7:18
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Luke 6:44
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
James 3:12
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
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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 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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Matthew 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 15:25
But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
Matthew 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Matthew 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
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Matthew 18:8
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9
If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Mark 9:44
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
Mark 9:45
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched—
Mark 9:46
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
Mark 9:47
If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,
Mark 9:48
‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
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Matthew 22:38
This is the first and great commandment.
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Matthew 22:39
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
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Matthew 24:37
As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 25:37
“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?
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.
2 Peter 2:5
and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
2 Peter 2:6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
Matthew 24:49
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
Matthew 24:50
the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,
Luke 12:45
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and to be drunken,
Luke 12:46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Luke 21:35
For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
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Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Galatians 3:24
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:26
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
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.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
1 John 2:6
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
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Mark 6:19
Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
Mark 6:21
Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
Mark 6:22
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
Mark 6:23
He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
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Matthew 13:40
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
Matthew 16:23
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
Mark 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 20:35
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
Acts 22:3
“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Galatians 4:18
But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good and the good of their children after them.
Luke 2:11
For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
John 1:29
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Acts 2:36
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:26
God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 9:28
so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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1 Kings 18:43
He said to his servant, “Go up now and look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, then said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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 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.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Romans 14:17
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
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.
1 John 4:20
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:13
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
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Psalms 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
Psalms 94:14
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Psalms 94:15
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
Isaiah 42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
Isaiah 45:17
Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
Micah 4:1
But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
Mark 1:15
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
Mark 16:15
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
Luke 2:10
The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
Titus 1:4
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
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John 6:25
When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
Acts 20:2
When he had gone through those parts and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
Romans 6:3
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Galatians 1:5
to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 2:17
But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Ephesians 4:20
But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
1 Timothy 6:14
that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Proverbs 6:25
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:28
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 19:17
He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Matthew 19:18
He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
1 Timothy 1:10
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
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Job 22:2
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Psalms 29:11
Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
Zechariah 8:19
Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
John 17:15
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
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 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
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 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
Galatians 6:16
As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
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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.
Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Romans 16:18
For those who are such don’t serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
2 Peter 2:22
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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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Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
1 Corinthians 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
1 Corinthians 2:8
which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
1 Corinthians 10:15
I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 15:11
Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Ephesians 1:6
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 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Ephesians 3:2
if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,
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 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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Romans 15:1
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Romans 15:2
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
Romans 15:3
For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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.
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Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Ephesians 4:30
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
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;
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,
Revelation 3:15
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
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Luke 11:10
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Luke 12:8
“I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God;
Acts 7:35
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 10:34
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
2 Corinthians 1:16
and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
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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.
1 Timothy 1:19
holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
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Deuteronomy 6:24
Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
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 110:3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
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.
John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Romans 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
2 Corinthians 5:19
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Titus 1:2
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
Hebrews 6:17
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,
1 Peter 1:4
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:5
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:9
receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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Galatians 5:19
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
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.
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Luke 17:30
It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
John 14:26
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
Romans 14:4
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
1 Corinthians 1:7
so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 3:21
to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Hebrews 9:1
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
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:
1 John 5:1
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
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Matthew 7:13
“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Luke 14:27
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
Luke 18:30
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
Philippians 3:7
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:10
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
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Ecclesiastes 4:12
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Matthew 12:32
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in that which is to come.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 8:3
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
1 Timothy 1:14
The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
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Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
John 14:30
I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Romans 3:24
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Timothy 1:11
according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
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,
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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.”
Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
Acts 15:32
Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Galatians 2:18
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
Colossians 1:2
to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
2 John 1:6
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
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Hebrews 12:5
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Hebrews 12:7
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
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Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 5:14
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
John 8:11
She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
Romans 1:32
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
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.
Hebrews 4:1
Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
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 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 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:9
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
2 Timothy 1:3
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Titus 3:11
knowing that such a one is perverted and sinful, being self-condemned.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
1 Peter 3:16
having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
1 Peter 3:21
This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
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Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
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.”
John 15:8
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 1:13
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
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