2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Deuteronomy 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
Deuteronomy 6:2
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 6:17
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
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Nehemiah 4:6
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Isaiah 58:10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
Amos 9:14
I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
Zechariah 3:7
“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
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Psalms 18:20
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18:22
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 18:23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 18:24
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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2 Chronicles 6:23
then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Ezekiel 18:22
None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
Luke 1:74
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Acts 24:16
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Colossians 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
2 Timothy 2:19
However, God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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Psalms 62:2
He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.
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Psalms 62:6
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
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Psalms 92:13
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
Psalms 92:14
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
Song of Solomon 4:12
My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
Ezekiel 47:12
By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”
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.
Luke 13:6
He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
Luke 13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’
Luke 13:8
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
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Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
Proverbs 3:2
for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:13
Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Proverbs 22:19
I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in Yahweh.
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
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Psalms 15:5
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
Psalms 125:1
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
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Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
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Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
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Proverbs 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:24
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
Proverbs 24:31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
Proverbs 24:34
so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
Proverbs 26:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
Proverbs 26:14
As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
Proverbs 26:15
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
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Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
Malachi 1:10
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Luke 19:20
Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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Song of Solomon 4:2
Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
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Song of Solomon 6:6
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them.
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Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
Luke 3:8
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
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.
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
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Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40:31
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
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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.
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
Romans 15:14
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
1 Corinthians 13:10
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Colossians 1:9
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
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Isaiah 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
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Isaiah 58:14
then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
Jeremiah 17:24
It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
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Haggai 1:2
“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”
Haggai 1:3
Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
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Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
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Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Matthew 21:29
He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
Matthew 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
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Matthew 25:3
Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
Matthew 25:4
but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew 25:6
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
Matthew 25:7
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew 25:8
The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
Matthew 25:9
But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’
Matthew 25:10
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
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Matthew 25:18
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.
Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.
Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
Matthew 25:28
Take away therefore the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
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Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Mark 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
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.”
Romans 5:19
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
1 Timothy 3:16
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
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 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.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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 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.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away.
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Mark 12:13
They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
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Mark 12:14
When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
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Luke 3:10
The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
Luke 3:11
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”
Luke 3:13
He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”
Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
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Matthew 20:1
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Luke 13:9
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”
John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:6
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Romans 15:28
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
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Luke 9:48
and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”
John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
2 Corinthians 9:14
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
2 Timothy 1:5
having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also.
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
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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.
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John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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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 7:53
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
Acts 17:15
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Titus 1:5
I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you—
Hebrews 2:7
You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.
Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
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Romans 6:2
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Romans 6:3
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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.
Romans 6:5
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Romans 6:7
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Romans 6:8
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
Romans 6:9
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
Romans 6:10
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 6:11
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
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2 Corinthians 5:13
For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:15
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore we know no one according to the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
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2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 6:6
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
2 Corinthians 6:7
in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold—we live, as punished and not killed,
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
2 Corinthians 6:13
Now in return—I speak as to my children—you also open your hearts.
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2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
2 Corinthians 6:18
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
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Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
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Isaiah 21:7
When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
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.
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.
Romans 5:21
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 4:20
But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24
and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
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Psalms 138:8
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:22
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
Hebrews 12:23
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
Revelation 18:20
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Philippians 2:5
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2:6
who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 5:27
I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
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Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Luke 17:5
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
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.
Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
1 Peter 2:1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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John 5:42
But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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.
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Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
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.
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.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 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.
Colossians 1:4
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
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
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
James 2:12
So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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2 Peter 1:18
We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
2 Peter 2:11
whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.
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Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
2 Peter 1:15
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.
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 2:4
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
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 2:10
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
2 Peter 2:15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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.”
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.
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;
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1 Corinthians 15:49
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
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.
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;
Philippians 3:18
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Philippians 3:20
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Philippians 3:21
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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.”
Acts 14:16
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
2 Corinthians 1:20
For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
Colossians 1:8
who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
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.
1 Peter 2:3
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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Proverbs 31:31
Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!
Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
Acts 9:39
Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
1 Timothy 5:7
Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
1 Timothy 5:10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
1 Peter 3:5
For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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