Working Too Much Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 81 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.Psalm 127:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.Colossians 3:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Ecclesiastes 4:4-9 ESV / 16 helpful votes Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. Again, I saw vanity under the sun: one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business. …John 5:30 ESV / 11 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.1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,Matthew 13:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”Colossians 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.Matthew 13:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.Matthew 17:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” …Romans 11:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!Job 21:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Working With People?
Working With People Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 16 helpful votes Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.John 14:26 ESV / 8 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.Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. …Matthew 10:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.Hosea 14:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.Numbers 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. …Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You 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, …1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 3 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 God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …Acts 2:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.Exodus 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.Acts 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
Workout?
Workout Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 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.Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 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, …John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.John 3:1-36 ESV / 1 helpful vote Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Works?
Works Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 61 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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.James 2:14-20 ESV / 49 helpful votes What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …Titus 3:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.James 2:20-24 ESV / 37 helpful votes Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.Matthew 5:16 ESV / 35 helpful votes In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.Titus 3:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.Hebrews 13:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes 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.Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.James 1:22-27 ESV / 18 helpful votes But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. …Titus 2:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,Romans 11:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.Psalm 90:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,James 2:25-26 ESV / 12 helpful votes And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.1 Timothy 5:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes And having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.Titus 3:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 11 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.John 15:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes You are my friends if you do what I command you.John 3:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”Matthew 19:16-
Works Of The Flesh?
Works Of The Flesh Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 33 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.Galatians 5:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 20 helpful votes For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”Galatians 5:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,Galatians 5:16-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, …James 4:1-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …Galatians 5:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,Romans 1:24-32 ESV / 12 helpful votes Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 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. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. …Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,Galatians 5:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes 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 John 3:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,Galatians 5:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.Galatians 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,John 3:16 ESV / 8 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 6:19 ESV / 7 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,Romans 5:12-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. B
World?
World 1 John 2:15-18 ESV / 132 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 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.John 15:18 ESV / 100 helpful votes “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.1 John 2:15 ESV / 91 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Romans 12:2 ESV / 67 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.James 4:4 ESV / 50 helpful votes You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.1 John 5:19 ESV / 42 helpful votes We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.John 18:36 ESV / 36 helpful votes Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”John 3:16 ESV / 34 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.John 16:33 ESV / 30 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.”Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 23 helpful votes The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”Colossians 3:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.Matthew 24:44 ESV / 18 helpful votes Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Matthew 24:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.Matthew 6:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes “No 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.Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.Galatians 6:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.Romans 13:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.Luke 21:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”1 Corinthians 4:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.Romans 6:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.Matthew 28:16-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”Acts 3:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
World Events?
World Events 1 John 5:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.John 16:33 ESV / 36 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.”Luke 21:36 ESV / 32 helpful votes But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”John 14:27 ESV / 27 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.Matthew 24:42 ESV / 26 helpful votes Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.2 Chronicles 7:13-15 ESV / 26 helpful votes When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 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. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.Matthew 24:21-22 ESV / 25 helpful votes For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Revelation 13:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”Romans 12:2 ESV / 21 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.Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. …John 3:16 ESV / 20 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.Acts 2:38 ESV / 19 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.Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.James 4:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.Colossians 3:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 18 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 John 2:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.John 3:16-17 ESV / 17 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.Matthew 24:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 17 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.1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 16 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.Romans 13:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.Act
World Government?
World Government 2 Timothy 3:1-4 ESV / 65 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,Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 60 helpful votes And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. …Revelation 17:13 ESV / 56 helpful votes These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.Daniel 2:44 ESV / 49 helpful votes And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,2 Timothy 4:1-4 ESV / 39 helpful votes I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.Daniel 7:24 ESV / 37 helpful votes As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.Revelation 13:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,Matthew 24:37 ESV / 28 helpful votes For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.Matthew 24:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.Matthew 24:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes 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 close of the age?”2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 22 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.Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, …Matthew 24:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.Revelation 17:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.Revelation 12:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.Matthew 24:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Mark 16:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authorit
World Hunger?
World Hunger Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 206 helpful votes For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 99 helpful votes If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.Matthew 25:35 ESV / 94 helpful votes For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,James 2:15-16 ESV / 70 helpful votes If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 64 helpful votes They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,Romans 12:20 ESV / 61 helpful votes To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”Revelation 7:16 ESV / 45 helpful votes They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.Matthew 7:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.Matthew 5:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.Luke 1:53 ESV / 32 helpful votes He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.John 6:35 ESV / 29 helpful votes Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,Revelation 7:14-17 ESV / 23 helpful votes I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 23 helpful votes “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …James 2:15-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.John 3:16-17 ESV / 14 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.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.Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.Matthew 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man
World Poverty?
World Poverty 1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 12 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.Luke 12:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.Matthew 6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes “No 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.Micah 6:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?Matthew 11:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.Matthew 24:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.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 close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …Isaiah 58:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? …Psalm 24:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,