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Jeremiah 40:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.
Psalm 107:10-14 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Psalm 2:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
Jude 1:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
1 John 1:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 10:1-18 ESV / 22 helpful votes
I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, …
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 17 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.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
John 8:32 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Galatians 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Acts 12:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
John 14:6 ESV / 8 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.
Mark 10:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Exodus 21:24-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, …
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 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 …
Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” …
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 3:16 ESV / 4 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 25:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Psalm 68:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
1 Kings 18:1-46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.” …
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Revelation 20:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 19:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
James 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 3 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. …
Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Acts 21:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.
Acts 2:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.
John 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
John 14:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,
John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Matthew 28:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Matthew 22:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Ezekiel 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Exodus 39:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.
Exodus 28:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.
Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Genesis 35:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.
Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. …
Revelation 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 20:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 1:1 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,
Jude 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
Jude 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For there are three that testify:
1 John 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 John 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
James 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
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, …
Philippians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
Galatians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
Romans 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 8:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 1:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 16:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened.
Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. …
Acts 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
Acts 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.
Acts 12:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.
Acts 2:6-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, …
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …
John 18:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. …
John 12:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
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