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Being Unique
Psalm 139:14 ESV / 395 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 319 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 1:27 ESV / 261 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 188 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 152 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. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. …
Matthew 10:30 ESV / 143 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 129 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.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 ESV / 87 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. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Acts 17:26 ESV / 61 helpful votes
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 58 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.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 53 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 46 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 35 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.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1 Corinthians 12:18-30 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, …
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Galatians 1:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,
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.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Genesis 12:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Psalm 139:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
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.
John 3:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 22 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.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 21 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.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Psalm 147:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
1 John 2:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
1 Kings 3:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Colossians 2:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Romans 12:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Psalm 139:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 13 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.
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
John 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Exodus 4:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 12 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— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
Colossians 3:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Psalm 1:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Revelation 2:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 1:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Isaiah 45:9-11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’” Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
1 Corinthians 12:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If all were a single member, where would the body be?
Romans 12:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;
John 21:21-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”
John 17:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
John 15:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 3:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Genesis 3:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 9 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.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 9 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. …
Psalm 139:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Exodus 35:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
1 Corinthians 12:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
Romans 12:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
John 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
Proverbs 1:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
Psalm 139:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
Psalm 139:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
Psalm 139:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
Psalm 139:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 121:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
James 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 5 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.
1 Corinthians 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
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