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Balance In Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 498 helpful votes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …
Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 255 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Matthew 6:33-34 ESV / 249 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
2 Peter 3:17 ESV / 197 helpful votes
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 156 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.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 134 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 128 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Philippians 4:11 ESV / 126 helpful votes
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 104 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Isaiah 41:13 ESV / 100 helpful votes
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 99 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Romans 12:2 ESV / 92 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.
John 16:33 ESV / 90 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.”
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 84 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 75 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Mark 6:31 ESV / 75 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
Luke 10:38-42 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
Genesis 2:2-3 ESV / 67 helpful votes
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
3 John 1:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Proverbs 16:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes
A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 47 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.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
John 5:30 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 38 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,
1 John 4:1 ESV / 37 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.
Job 31:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
Mark 1:35 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 32 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.
Psalm 127:1-2 ESV / 32 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
John 8:32 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
1 John 1:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 25 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.
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
John 14:6 ESV / 22 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.
Ecclesiastes 7:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.
Proverbs 30:7-9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Luke 2:52 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …
Galatians 6:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.
Job 7:1-5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Psalm 127:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Psalm 62:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 14 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 40:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
James 4:13-16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 12 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.
Matthew 18:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 12 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.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
John 3:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Ecclesiastes 4:5-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 10 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 6:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 10 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
John 6:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
Proverbs 14:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
Exodus 16:1-36 ESV / 8 helpful votes
They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” …
Hebrews 10:1-39 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; …
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 7 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. …
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Leviticus 19:36 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
1 John 5:20 ESV / 6 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.
Ephesians 1:12-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 6 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 8:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Mark 8:35-37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Romans 9:25-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
Romans 8:18 ESV / 5 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 5:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.
Matthew 10:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew 6:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Hosea 2:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”
Isaiah 40:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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 …
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 11:25-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 8:12 ESV / 4 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.”
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