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Common Sense
Proverbs 3:21 ESV / 72 helpful votes
My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion,
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
James 1:22-25 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Proverbs 9:12 ESV / 42 helpful votes
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
Proverbs 16:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.
1 John 5:20 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Proverbs 10:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes
On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 20 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,
Romans 2:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes
They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
Psalm 32:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
2 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 14 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.
Luke 10:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Proverbs 13:14-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin. In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 23:4-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 20:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …
Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Proverbs 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
John 6:47 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Acts 11:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
John 5:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
That whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Zechariah 8:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Psalm 22:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Romans 2:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, …
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 5 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.
Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 8:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 5 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; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! …
Job 39:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
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.”
John 7:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
John 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 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.
Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
1 Samuel 8:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” …
Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 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. …
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 2 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. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
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