Paul Changed   2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. James 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Numbers 23:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes   God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 1 John 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes   The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes   I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes   When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ... Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Malachi 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes   To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ... 1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. James 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with great

Jesus Or Barabbus   Matthew 27:16-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes   And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. ... Mark 15:7-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes   And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. ... Luke 23:18-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes   But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.” ... John 18:39-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber. Acts 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, Matthew 27:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” And he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!” Mark 15:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. Luke 23:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. John 19:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. Acts 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes   The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

Judas   Psalm 41:9 ESV / 135 helpful votes   Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. Mark 14:43-45 ESV / 107 helpful votes   And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.” And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Matthew 27:5 ESV / 105 helpful votes   And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. Matthew 27:3-10 ESV / 85 helpful votes   Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. ... John 6:67-71 ESV / 72 helpful votes   So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him. John 12:4-6 ESV / 64 helpful votes   But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. John 13:2 ESV / 60 helpful votes   During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Luke 22:3-6 ESV / 59 helpful votes   Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd. John 17:12 ESV / 58 helpful votes   While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Acts 1:16-25 ESV / 54 helpful votes   “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.” (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it’; and “‘Let another take his office.’ ... John 12:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes   He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. Acts 1:18 ESV / 48 helpful votes   (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wicke

Raised From The Dead   Jude 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Revelation 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Colossians 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 4 helpful votes   In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ... Romans 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. Romans 4:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. Acts 2:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes   He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. John 6:69 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” John 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice Matthew 7:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes   “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. Daniel 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Psalm 49:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah Psalm 16:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. 2 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes   They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 1 Corinthians 15:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes   So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV /

Healed   1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes   He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes   But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes   Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. Psalm 147:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes   He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Exodus 15:26 ESV / 28 helpful votes   Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes   For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’ Isaiah 58:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes   Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. James 5:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes   Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Psalm 6:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes   Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. 3 John 1:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes   Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes   Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. Psalm 107:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes   He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. Psalm 41:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes   The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. Mark 5:34 ESV / 16 helpful votes   And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” Acts 10:38 ESV / 15 helpful votes   How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes   A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 14 helpful votes   My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. 2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes   If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes   And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. James 5:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes   Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 12 helpful votes   I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and accept

Living In The Light   1 John 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. Matthew 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 1 John 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes   This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ... John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Proverbs 30:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up: Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes   See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ... 1 John 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes   My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ... 1 John 1:5-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes   This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ... Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light Ephesians 5:8-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. ... 1 John 2:27 ESV /

Do Whats Right   1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. James 4:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, Colossians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes   “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ... Galatians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes   And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes   So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Romans 12:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For nothing will be impossible with God.” Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes   A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... Deuteronomy 12:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes   The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 1 John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 1 John 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But you are a chosen race,

Prayed That They Receive The Holy Spirit   Acts 8:15-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Acts 19:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes   And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ... Luke 11:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes   If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. John 14:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes   In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Romans 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 2 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you. Galatians 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Peace With God Through Jesus Christ   Romans 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes   Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2:14-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes   For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Colossians 1:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes   For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Philippians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes   All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes   But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. John 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes   I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” Romans 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes   May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 6:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

The Kingdom   Galatians 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes   It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, Romans 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes   I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ... John 14:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. John 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes   I and the Father are one.” John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ... Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” 1 John 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes   There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes   He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes   For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes   For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Acts 10:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes   So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, Acts 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. Acts 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes   And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them

Love One Another   John 13:34 ESV / 792 helpful votes   A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 1 John 4:20 ESV / 533 helpful votes   If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 490 helpful votes   Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. John 13:34-35 ESV / 441 helpful votes   A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Romans 12:10 ESV / 376 helpful votes   Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 1 John 4:7-10 ESV / 310 helpful votes   Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Romans 13:8 ESV / 302 helpful votes   Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 1 John 4:11 ESV / 295 helpful votes   Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 3:18 ESV / 254 helpful votes   Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. John 15:12 ESV / 213 helpful votes   “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Galatians 5:13 ESV / 209 helpful votes   For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 1 John 4:7 ESV / 202 helpful votes   Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 196 helpful votes   You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 194 helpful votes   If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ... John 13:35 ESV / 181 helpful votes   By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 1 John 3:11 ESV / 175 helpful votes   For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Luke 6:31 ESV / 172 helpful votes   And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. Luke 6:35 ESV / 167 helpful votes   But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 166 helpful votes   Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 166 helpful votes   With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, John 3:16 ESV / 158 helpful votes   “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, th

See Jesus   John 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. Acts 2:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes   “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— John 8:58 ESV / 5 helpful votes   Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” Matthew 24:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes   “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Matthew 2:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes   And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. Acts 7:56 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” John 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. John 5:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes   “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. John 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes   All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Matthew 27:46 ESV / 4 helpful votes   And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes   He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes   All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, Romans 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes   And was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, Acts 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes   And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. Acts 2:24-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes   God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ ... John 14:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes   You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. John 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes   I and the Father are one.” John 8:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes   I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die

Alabaster   Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 10 helpful votes   One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” ... John 16:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes   When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Luke 7:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Luke 7:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes   This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’ Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes   After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ... Malachi 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. John 12:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” ... Luke 8:1-56 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means. And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. ... Luke 7:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes   One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. Luke 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes   And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame

Gods Time   2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 144 helpful votes   But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 125 helpful votes   For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 115 helpful votes   He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Psalm 31:15 ESV / 108 helpful votes   My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 99 helpful votes   For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 92 helpful votes   But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Ecclesiastes 8:6 ESV / 83 helpful votes   For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him. 2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 77 helpful votes   For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Psalm 90:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes   So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Lamentations 3:25-26 ESV / 75 helpful votes   The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 75 helpful votes   The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 74 helpful votes   Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Acts 1:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes   He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. Galatians 4:4 ESV / 70 helpful votes   But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes   As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. Psalm 27:14 ESV / 67 helpful votes   Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! Galatians 6:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes   And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 66 helpful votes   For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 63 helpful votes   But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Matthew 6:33 ESV / 63 helpful votes   But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Psalm 46:10 ESV / 60 helpful votes   “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 90:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes   For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 58 helpful votes   In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and

Spiritual Gifts   Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 587 helpful votes   Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 489 helpful votes   As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 367 helpful votes   Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ... 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 317 helpful votes   Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ... 1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 253 helpful votes   To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 242 helpful votes   And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ... Romans 12:3-8 ESV / 242 helpful votes   For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ... Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 225 helpful votes   And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 203 helpful votes   For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 1 Corinthians 12:1 ESV / 175 helpful votes   Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. Acts 1:8 ESV / 166 helpful votes   But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Romans 12:6 ESV / 163 helpful votes   Having gifts that differ according to the grace g

No Fruit   John 15:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes   “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ... John 15:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes   I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes   Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” James 2:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, John 15:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ... Matthew 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Matthew 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 1 John 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes   No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 1 Peter 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes   So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: James 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes   And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes   For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes   All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, Colossians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes   So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes   For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Galatians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:19-21 ESV

Fig Tree   Matthew 21:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes   And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once. Mark 11:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes   And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” Mark 11:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes   On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes   So Christ, 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. Luke 19:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes   So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. 1 John 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes   But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. 1 Peter 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes   And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Romans 15:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes   For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Acts 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes   (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. Luke 3:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes   In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, ... Matthew 28:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 24:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. Matthew 24:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one

True Vine John 15:1-27 ESV / 13 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...John 15:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.John 15:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.John 15:1-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.Acts 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”John 15:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.Isaiah 5:1-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? ...Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful vote

Preparing A Place   John 14:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes   “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ... John 14:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes   “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes   For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes   Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes   In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? John 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes   “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes   He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes   And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ... 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes   The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes   And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes   Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes   But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of

Gods Voice   John 10:27 ESV / 1,672 helpful votes   My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Romans 10:17 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes   So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,361 helpful votes   Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. John 5:30 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes   “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. John 5:25 ESV / 1,319 helpful votes   “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. Psalm 29:3 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes   The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. John 5:37 ESV / 1,223 helpful votes   And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, Hebrews 3:15 ESV / 1,212 helpful votes   As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Revelation 3:20 ESV / 1,203 helpful votes   Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. John 14:26 ESV / 1,199 helpful votes   But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 1,193 helpful votes   You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. John 8:47 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes   Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.” Genesis 3:8 ESV / 1,128 helpful votes   And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Ezekiel 43:2 ESV / 1,121 helpful votes   And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1,065 helpful votes   For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes   All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 1,039 helpful votes   Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. Psalm 5:3 ESV / 1,026 helpful votes   O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 1,017 helpful votes   And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Exodus 19:19 ESV / 983 helpful votes   And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. Hebrews 4:7 ESV / 969 helpful votes   Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” Luke 11:28 ESV / 922 helpful votes   But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” 1 John 5:14 ESV / 891 helpful votes   And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. Hebrews 1:1-2 ESV / 889 helpful votes   Long ago, at many times and in many way