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Character Of God
1 John 4:8 ESV / 682 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 579 helpful votes
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 485 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 439 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 367 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
James 1:17 ESV / 361 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Psalm 30:5 ESV / 337 helpful votes
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
John 3:16 ESV / 318 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.
Psalm 18:30 ESV / 299 helpful votes
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 238 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
John 14:6 ESV / 226 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 4:24 ESV / 216 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 198 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.
John 14:26 ESV / 196 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 166 helpful votes
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. …
Micah 7:18-19 ESV / 165 helpful votes
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 154 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.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 153 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 149 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 141 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 139 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.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 138 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Isaiah 6:3 ESV / 132 helpful votes
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 129 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 123 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.
Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 120 helpful votes
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 116 helpful votes
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
John 17:3 ESV / 115 helpful votes
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 110 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 109 helpful votes
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
John 1:1 ESV / 106 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 106 helpful votes
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 102 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 101 helpful votes
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 99 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
John 17:17 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 96 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 95 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 119:89 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 90 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.”
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Psalm 90:2 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalm 33:11 ESV / 89 helpful votes
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
Romans 13:14 ESV / 87 helpful votes
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Titus 2:7-8 ESV / 86 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
James 1:27 ESV / 85 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.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 84 helpful votes
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Job 12:7-10 ESV / 84 helpful votes
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
1 John 4:10 ESV / 83 helpful votes
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 82 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.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 81 helpful votes
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.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Matthew 6:26 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Ruth 3:11 ESV / 77 helpful votes
And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.
2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 76 helpful votes
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 76 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 74 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 72 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 72 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Deuteronomy 33:27 ESV / 71 helpful votes
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 70 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …
John 11:26 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Exodus 34:5-7 ESV / 69 helpful votes
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 66 helpful votes
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8:29 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
James 1:13 ESV / 64 helpful votes
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 63 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.
1 John 2:5 ESV / 61 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
John 1:18 ESV / 60 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 58 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, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
John 15:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 56 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Psalm 148:1-14 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created. …
James 5:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Daniel 9:9 ESV / 55 helpful votes
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him
2 Peter 3:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …
Matthew 10:29 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
James 4:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Romans 5:10 ESV / 52 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.
Romans 5:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
Acts 17:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:31-43 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …
Psalm 119:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 51 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.
Romans 5:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
John 3:17 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 14:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
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