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Matthew 28:20 ESV / 1,335 helpful votes
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 1,243 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 1,238 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Psalm 27:10 ESV / 1,095 helpful votes
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 1,038 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 951 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 806 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Psalm 147:3 ESV / 785 helpful votes
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
John 14:27 ESV / 741 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.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 726 helpful votes
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.
Luke 5:16 ESV / 616 helpful votes
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
Psalm 68:6 ESV / 616 helpful votes
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
John 14:18 ESV / 604 helpful votes
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Psalm 25:16 ESV / 572 helpful votes
Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 563 helpful votes
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 535 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 523 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 492 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. …
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 490 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 484 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 68:5-6 ESV / 465 helpful votes
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
John 16:32-33 ESV / 447 helpful votes
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 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.”
Mark 1:35 ESV / 442 helpful votes
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
1 Samuel 12:22 ESV / 425 helpful votes
For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV / 423 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
John 16:33 ESV / 413 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.”
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 411 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 402 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 5:11-12 ESV / 389 helpful votes
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Joshua 1:5 ESV / 389 helpful votes
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
John 15:18-19 ESV / 384 helpful votes
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 3:16 ESV / 379 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 Timothy 5:5 ESV / 368 helpful votes
She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,
John 16:32 ESV / 367 helpful votes
Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
2 Timothy 4:16-17 ESV / 366 helpful votes
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 355 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 354 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 349 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Luke 6:32-42 ESV / 340 helpful votes
“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 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. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. …
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 336 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Exodus 33:14 ESV / 335 helpful votes
And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
2 John 1:2 ESV / 334 helpful votes
Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 333 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
James 5:13 ESV / 325 helpful votes
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Matthew 27:46 ESV / 316 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?”
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 312 helpful votes
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 311 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Romans 14:1 ESV / 309 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 306 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; …
Matthew 6:31-34 ESV / 304 helpful votes
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Romans 15:1-2 ESV / 302 helpful votes
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 294 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Psalm 73:23 ESV / 293 helpful votes
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
John 14:16 ESV / 287 helpful votes
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Psalm 91:15 ESV / 287 helpful votes
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
Matthew 14:23 ESV / 285 helpful votes
And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 282 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Proverbs 18:1 ESV / 281 helpful votes
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Psalm 23:1 ESV / 270 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 264 helpful votes
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 253 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.
Psalm 38:9 ESV / 253 helpful votes
O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Matthew 14:13 ESV / 248 helpful votes
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 246 helpful votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 246 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 242 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 240 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 14:6 ESV / 238 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.
Psalm 121:1-2 ESV / 237 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
James 4:8 ESV / 233 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Isaiah 53:3 ESV / 233 helpful votes
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Psalm 102:7 ESV / 228 helpful votes
I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 227 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 226 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Psalm 62:8 ESV / 224 helpful votes
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Luke 19:10 ESV / 221 helpful votes
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 215 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 211 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Luke 6:31 ESV / 211 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 200 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 190 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 188 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Romans 3:23 ESV / 183 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Exodus 33:11 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Exodus 33:7 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 180 helpful votes
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 179 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 179 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 163 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
John 13:34-35 ESV / 161 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.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 159 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.
Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 141 helpful votes
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 139 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 139 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Colossians 3:1 ESV / 136 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
1 Peter 2:4-6 ESV / 135 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
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