Yoke Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 88 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.”John 8:32 ESV / 25 helpful votes And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”Luke 10:27 ESV / 18 helpful votes And he answered, “You 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.”2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?Lamentations 3:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Luke 22:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 11 helpful votes Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple …Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 11 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, …Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 10 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.Romans 13:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.John 14:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 10 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.Galatians 5:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 9 helpful votes Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 9 helpful votes “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if a
Yoked?
Yoked 2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.Romans 16:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.1 John 4:1 ESV / 4 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 Peter 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,2 Thessalonians 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 4 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. …Isaiah 27:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.Exodus 34:10-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), …Genesis 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Revelation 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.2 John 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,2 John 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey
You?
You 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 52 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.John 3:16 ESV / 49 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.Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 40 helpful votes For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.Philippians 4:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 39 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.2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 38 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.Luke 1:37 ESV / 32 helpful votes For nothing will be impossible with God.”Galatians 2:20 ESV / 31 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.1 John 1:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 28 helpful votes But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—Philippians 4:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.John 14:6 ESV / 27 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.Joshua 1:9 ESV / 27 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.”1 John 3:1 ESV / 25 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.Romans 5:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 24 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,Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 24 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.”John 15:5 ESV / 23 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.Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of lightRomans 8:28 ESV / 21 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.Romans 8:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.Romans 12:2 ESV / 20 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.Colossians 2:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.Psalm 139:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
You Are A Royal Priesthood?
You Are A Royal Priesthood 1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 327 helpful votes But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 151 helpful votes 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.Revelation 1:6 ESV / 115 helpful votes And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.1 Peter 2:9-10 ESV / 112 helpful votes But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.1 Peter 2:4-10 ESV / 109 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.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. …Exodus 19:6 ESV / 106 helpful votes And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”Revelation 5:10 ESV / 87 helpful votes And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 70 helpful votes So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 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. …Hebrews 8:1-6 ESV / 66 helpful votes Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” …John 15:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,Exodus 19:5-6 ESV / 49 helpful votes Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”Romans 12:1 ESV / 47 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.Deuteronomy 7:6-9 ESV / 47 helpful votes “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand
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Young 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Luke 10:10-13 ESV / 10 helpful votes But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.Matthew 18:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.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.Matthew 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.Hosea 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.1 Kings 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.Leviticus 20:10-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. …Suggest a Verse
Young Adults?
Young Adults 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 240 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Jeremiah 1:7 ESV / 154 helpful votes But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.Romans 12:2 ESV / 120 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.Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 76 helpful votes Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.Philippians 4:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 55 helpful votes Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.James 4:7 ESV / 54 helpful votes Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.John 14:14 ESV / 46 helpful votes If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 36 helpful votes Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 36 helpful votes Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.1 Peter 1:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.Titus 2:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.Joel 2:28-30 ESV / 20 helpful votes “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.Isaiah 60:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.Acts 5:29 ESV / 17 helpful votes But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.James 1:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.Psalm 119:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.2 Chronicles 20:21-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the Lord and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures forever.” And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—Amos 8:11-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for
Young Ladies?
Young Ladies Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 193 helpful votes Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 166 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.1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 164 helpful votes Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,Romans 12:2 ESV / 140 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.Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 110 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.Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 90 helpful votes But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 78 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.Galatians 2:20 ESV / 74 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.Proverbs 31:25-29 ESV / 71 helpful votes Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.Romans 12:1 ESV / 55 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.Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 47 helpful votes She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.Matthew 7:7 ESV / 43 helpful votes “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 42 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 39 helpful votes Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.Proverbs 14:1-2 ESV / 33 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.Luke 6:30 ESV / 32 helpful votes Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.Proverbs 31:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.Psalm 144:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 26 helpful votes Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. …
Young Lovers?
Young Lovers Song of Solomon 3:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 11 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 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 8 helpful votes Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. …Titus 1:6-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 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. …Song of Solomon 6:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom. Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.Song of Solomon 6:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignifie
Young Men?
Young Men Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 243 helpful votes My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …Psalm 119:9 ESV / 211 helpful votes How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 102 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Romans 12:2 ESV / 102 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.Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 94 helpful votes The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.1 John 2:17 ESV / 86 helpful votes And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 77 helpful votes Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 65 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.1 John 2:12-14 ESV / 59 helpful votes I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 58 helpful votes But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.Joel 2:28 ESV / 54 helpful votes “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 John 2:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 31 helpful votes Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.Titus 1:7-8 ESV / 29 helpful votes For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.Acts 2:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;Psalm 150:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!Genesis 1:27 ESV / 24 helpful votes So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.2 Timothy 2:22-25 ESV / 22 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. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,Genesis 2:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and h
Young People?
Young People 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 194 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 73 helpful votes Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 61 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.2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 52 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.1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 48 helpful votes Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”Jeremiah 1:7 ESV / 44 helpful votes But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.John 14:1-31 ESV / 36 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 3:16 ESV / 32 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 Samuel 17:42-54 ESV / 32 helpful votes And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, …1 Peter 5:5-9 ESV / 26 helpful votes Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.Psalm 71:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.Exodus 20:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,Psalm 119:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 23 helpful votes Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.Psalm 119:105 ESV / 20 helpful votes Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 19 helpful votes Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”Colossians 3:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes Children, obey you