Young Women Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 18 helpful votes 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.Titus 2:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.Titus 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 10 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.Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes 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.1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …Genesis 25:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.Luke 1:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.John 2:5-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom …Proverbs 6:24-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes To preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? …Psalm 128:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 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.John 6:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, a
Your Birthday?
Your Birthday Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 102 helpful votes The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 90 helpful votes “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Genesis 40:20 ESV / 70 helpful votes On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.Psalm 118:24 ESV / 50 helpful votes This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 20:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.Job 1:4 ESV / 41 helpful votes His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.Exodus 14:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 37 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.John 3:16-17 ESV / 35 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 14:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,Acts 2:38 ESV / 29 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.Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 29 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.Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.Psalm 90:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.Galatians 6:1-2 ESV / 24 helpful votes Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.Mark 6:21 ESV / 24 helpful votes But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.3 John 1:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 22 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.2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!John 16:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.Matthew 1:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.Colossians 2:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.Judges 8:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”1 Corinthians 1:3-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
Your Body?
Your Body 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1,547 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 966 helpful votes Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 674 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 456 helpful votes I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 448 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 334 helpful votes But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 308 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,Matthew 6:22 ESV / 231 helpful votes “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 226 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.Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 167 helpful votes “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Matthew 10:28 ESV / 146 helpful votes And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 125 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,Psalm 100:3 ESV / 107 helpful votes Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.Philippians 1:20 ESV / 102 helpful votes As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 101 helpful votes It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.Psalm 139:13-18 ESV / 96 helpful votes For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! …Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 86 helpful votes “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …Matthew 5:29-30 ESV / 82 helpful votes If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 74 helpful votes He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 72 help
Your Body Is A Temple?
Your Body Is A Temple 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 550 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 385 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,1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 347 helpful votes Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 248 helpful votes Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 242 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 220 helpful votes For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 187 helpful votes “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 152 helpful votes What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 150 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. …John 2:21 ESV / 138 helpful votes But he was speaking about the temple of his body.1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 111 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 6:1-20 ESV / 107 helpful votes When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 101 helpful votes But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.Colossians 3:5 ESV / 97 helpful votes Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.Romans 12:1 ESV / 92 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.Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 84 helpful votes He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ …1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 78 helpful votes If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.Romans 12:2 ESV / 74 helpful votes Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 71 helpful votes I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good an
Your Enemies?
Your Enemies Matthew 5:44 ESV / 81 helpful votes But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 44 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 anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.John 14:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 34 helpful votes Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …John 14:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.Ezra 7:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.Revelation 21:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”Revelation 12:9 ESV / 14 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.2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …Suggest a Verse
Your Hair?
Your Hair 1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 34 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—Ezekiel 44:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 12 helpful votes Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.Judges 16:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.” But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” …Matthew 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …
Your Health?
Your Health 1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?3 John 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.Exodus 23:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.Exodus 15:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.Leviticus 10:9-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”Exodus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes “You shall not murder.Revelation 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 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,John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.Deuteronomy 23:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.Deuteronomy 23:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes “You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …Genesis 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,Exodus 20:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote And God spoke all these words, saying,
Your Heart?
Your Heart Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 37 helpful votes My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.1 John 2:27 ESV / 29 helpful votes But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 29 helpful votes And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Acts 5:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?Luke 6:37 ESV / 24 helpful votes “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.Matthew 12:35 ESV / 13 helpful votes The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.1 John 4:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.John 8:44 ESV / 8 helpful votes You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 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.1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.Psalm 111:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes 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.Revelation 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.1 John 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Your Husband?
Your Husband Genesis 2:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,Matthew 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 7 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.Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 6 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. …1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 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.Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.Matthew 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.Genesis 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”Titus 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,Colossians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.Romans 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.Luke 6:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.Psalm 119:165 ESV / 4 helpful votes Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.Deuteronomy 24:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand a
Your Innner Circle?
Your Innner Circle John 15:15-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 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.John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes 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. …Psalm 101:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.Psalm 101:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil. Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.Psalm 26:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.1 John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Philippians 2:4-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.Philippians 2:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,Galatians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.Romans 12:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.Romans 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.John 15:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.John 14:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”John 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all peopleLuke 6:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.Proverbs 14:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 4 helpful vot