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Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 Thessalonians 2:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
John 16:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
1 John 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 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 8:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
John 13:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
John 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 3:16 ESV / 6 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 1:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
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.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”
1 Kings 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
James 2:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 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.
1 Thessalonians 2:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. …
Matthew 21:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
Matthew 5:13 ESV / 4 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 3 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.
Philippians 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:6 ESV / 3 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.
John 8:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 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. …
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 3 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.”
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 2 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.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 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 …
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
1 Corinthians 6:9 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,
Romans 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Acts 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 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.
John 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 22:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 12:35 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ezekiel 23:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 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.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 2 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.
Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Ecclesiastes 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Psalm 119:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 83:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 23:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Job 36:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
1 Kings 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.
1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 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.”
Deuteronomy 13:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. …
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