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Romans 12:2 ESV / 407 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 1:15 ESV / 291 helpful votes
My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
Romans 12:6 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 187 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.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 167 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.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 141 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Philippians 2:15 ESV / 100 helpful votes
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 94 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.”
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 82 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.”
1 Corinthians 12:12-25 ESV / 63 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …
Psalm 1:1 ESV / 61 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;
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 52 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.
Matthew 7:13 ESV / 50 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
1 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 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. …
Romans 8:28 ESV / 39 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 14:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Psalm 139:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
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.
Deuteronomy 7:6 ESV / 32 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.
2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Romans 12:4-8 ESV / 31 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. 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.
1 Corinthians 14:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 26 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 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 25 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 dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 25 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 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Matthew 10:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
Proverbs 4:5-15 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.” …
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 20 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.
James 3:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 20 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. …
1 John 4:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
Galatians 6:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
Romans 12:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Revelation 7:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 17 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.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Romans 14:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 15 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.
John 2:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Matthew 5:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Revelation 7:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 14 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 14:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?
Leviticus 26:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
1 John 2:15 ESV / 13 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.
1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 13 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.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 13 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,
Luke 1:37 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
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 …
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Romans 15:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Matthew 5:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Deuteronomy 12:1-16:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way. But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, …
Genesis 3:22 ESV / 12 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—”
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 Peter 2:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 11 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 Peter 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Corinthians 12:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Corinthians 9:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
Romans 1:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
John 15:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.
Hebrews 4:1-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” …
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 9 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.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Colossians 2:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Colossians 1:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 8 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 12:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If all were a single member, where would the body be?
Romans 12:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Jeremiah 10:10-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. …
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Psalm 146:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 8 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.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Corinthians 1:8-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” …
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
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