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ASLAN International Ministry Scripture Verses forĀ
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Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
3 John 1:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 14 helpful votes
āAnd if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ā¦
John 14:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
āIf you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Romans 2:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For, as it is written, āThe name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.ā
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
āNo one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: āBad company ruins good morals.ā
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
āAll things are lawful,ā but not all things are helpful. āAll things are lawful,ā but not all things build up.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, āYou shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,ā and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: āYou shall love your neighbor as yourself.ā Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he answered, āYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.ā
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
āAll things are lawful for me,ā but not all things are helpful. āAll things are lawful for me,ā but I will not be enslaved by anything.
Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, āI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. āYou shall have no other gods before me. āYou shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ā¦
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, āI will never leave you nor forsake you.ā
2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: āThe Lord knows those who are his,ā and, āLet everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.ā
Ephesians 4:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And give no opportunity to the devil.
Matthew 18:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
James 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ā¦
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. āHonor your father and motherā (this is the first commandment with a promise), āthat it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.ā Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
2 Samuel 14:1-33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom. And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, āPretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead. Go to the king and speak thus to him.ā So Joab put the words in her mouth. When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, āSave me, O king.ā And the king said to her, āWhat is your trouble?ā She answered, āAlas, I am a widow; my husband is dead. ā¦
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 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.
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
āYou shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. āIf you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ā¦
Matthew 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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