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Revelation 3:16 ESV / 244 helpful votes
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Romans 12:11 ESV / 132 helpful votes
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Zephaniah 1:12-13 ESV / 126 helpful votes
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’ Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”
Revelation 3:2 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 105 helpful votes
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Ephesians 6:10-12 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Romans 12:9-13 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Revelation 3:15-16 ESV / 69 helpful votes
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Proverbs 15:19 ESV / 64 helpful votes
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
John 5:39-40 ESV / 63 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, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
James 4:17 ESV / 52 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Mark 14:38-41 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 33 helpful votes
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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Hebrews 5:11-12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. …
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 24:33-34 ESV / 18 helpful votes
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Proverbs 18:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Psalm 51:16-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Hebrews 6:10-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Haggai 1:7-9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
Isaiah 47:8-10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”: These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”
Psalm 17:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Joshua 24:14-15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 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.”
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
Ephesians 4:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Psalm 17:1-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped. …
John 11:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus wept.
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” …
Matthew 21:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Obadiah 1:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
2 Kings 13:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”
Hebrews 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Acts 10:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. …
Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Deuteronomy 4:21-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land. Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, …
Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Isaiah 5:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Matthew 24:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
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