In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [Gen 1:1].
I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise His heel. [Gen 3:15].
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. [Gen 3:19].
. . .For the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. [Gen 8:21].
. . .Look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe and place such men over the people. . . [Exo 18:21].
. . .Please show me Your ways, so I may know You and find favor in Your sight. . . [Exo 33:13].
. . .I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. [Exo 33:19].
God is not man, so that He should lie, or a son of man, so that He should change his mind. . . [Num 23:19].
The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. [Deu 6:4-5].
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. [Deu 6:7].
He is your praise. He is your God. . . [Deu 10:21].
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law. [Deu 29:29].
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 everything written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. [Jos 1:8].
For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy. . . [Jos 11:20].
Now therefore fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away [your idols] and serve the Lord. [Jos 24:14].
. . .Far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. . . [1Sa 12:23].
. . .The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for He is not a man, that He should have regret. [1Sa 15:29].
He trains my hands for war. . . [2Sa 22:35].
. . .There is no God like You, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart. [1Ki 8:23].
So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. . . [2Ki 17:41].
. . .Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord and You are exalted as head above all. [1Ch 29:11].
. . .O Lord, there is none like You to help between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on You. . . [2Ch 14:11].
. . .Blessed be Your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. You are the Lord, You alone. You have made heaven, the highest heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and You preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships You. [Neh 9:5,6].
For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number. [Job 5:6-9].
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? [Job 14:4].
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. [Job 19:25].
. . .I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion of food. [Job 23:12].
. . .Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom and to turn away from evil is understanding. [Job 28:28].
I know You can do all things and no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. [Job 42:2].
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. [Psa 1:1-2].
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed. . . [Psa 2:1-2].
. . .Be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. [Psa 2:10-11].
O Lord, in the morning You hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for You and watch. [Psa 5:3].
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. If a man does not repent, God will whet [sharpen] His sword. . . [Psa 7:11-12].
The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple;
the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether. [Psa 19:7-9].
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. [Psa 19:14].
To You they cried and were rescued; in You they trusted and were not put to shame. [Psa 22:5].
. . .Your face, LORD, do I seek. [Psa 27:8].
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations. [Psa 33:11].
For the Lord loves justice; He will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever. . . [Psa 37:28].
I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise You forever and ever. [Psa 45:17].
. . .you thought that I was one like yourself . . . [Psa 50:21].
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psa 51:5].
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. . . [Psa 56:3-4].
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me. [Psa 57:2].
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth. . . [Psa 58:3].
Blessed is the one You choose and bring near, to dwell in Your courts. . . [Psa 65:4].
Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power Your enemies come cringing to You. All the earth worships You and sings praises to You”. . . [Psa 66:3-4].
Who will rise up for Me against the wicked? Who will stand up for Me against the evildoers? [Psa 94:16].
He does not deal with us according to our sins nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him. [Psa 103:10-11].
I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations. For Your steadfast love is great above the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let Your glory be over all the earth. [Psa 108:3-5].
Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of Your power. . . [Psa 110:3].
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for the sake of Your steadfast love and Your faithfulness! [Psa 115:1].
Our God is in the heavens; He does all He pleases. [Psa 115:3].
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. [Psa 118:8-9].
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. [Psa 119:105].
Long have I known from Your testimonies You have founded them forever. [Psa 119:152].
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. . . [Psa 122:6].
I give You thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing Your praise . . .for You have exalted above all things Your name and Your word. [Psa 138:1-2].
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me; Your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. [Psa 138:8].
. . .You wrote in Your book all my days before one of them came to be. [Psa 139:16].
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. . . [Pro 1:7].
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths. [Pro 3:5-6].
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. [Pro 14:34].
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. [Pro 16:1].
The Lord has made everything for His purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. [Pro 16:4].
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. [Pro 16:9].
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. [Pro 16:33].
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord. [Pro 17:15].
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord. . . [Pro 19:17].
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. [Pro 19:21].
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin.” [Pro 20:9].
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will. [Pro 21:1].
The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord. [Pro 21:31].
Rescue those being lead away to death; hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not He who weighs the heart perceive it. . . [Pro 24:11-12].
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely. [Pro 28:4-5].
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. . .defend the rights of the poor and needy. [Pro 31:8-9].
In the day of prosperity be joyful and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. [Ecc 7:14].
. . .There is no discharge from war nor will wickedness deliver those given to it. [Ecc 8:8].
Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. [Ecc 8:11].
A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left. [Ecc 10:2].
. . .Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. [Ecc 12:13].
. . .The Lord alone will be exalted in that day. [Isa 2:11].
But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows Himself holy in righteousness. [Isa 5:16].
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. . . [Isa 5:20].
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight. [Isa 5:21].
. . .Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. [Isa 6:3].
If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all. [Isa 7:9b].
Do not call conspiracy what this people calls conspiracy and do not fear what they fear nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, Him you shall honor as holy. Let Him be your fear and let Him be your dread. [Isa 8:12-13].
. . .As I have planned, so shall it be. . . [Isa 14:24].
O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You; I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. [Isa 25:1].
He will swallow up death forever. . .It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, that He might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for Him; let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”. . .In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.” [Isa 25:8-9, 26:1].
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. [Isa 26:3].
. . .For You have done for us all our works. [Isa 26:12].
O Lord our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone we bring to remembrance. [Isa 26:13].
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for You. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. [Isa 33:2].
Everyone who is called by My name, whom I created for My glory, whom I formed and made. [Isa 43:7].
I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins. [Isa 43:25].
. . .Woe to him who strives with Him who formed him. . .Does the clay say to him who forms it, “What are you making?”. . . [Isa 45:9].
. . .I am God and there is none like Me. . .My counsel shall stand and I will accomplish all My purpose. [Isa 46:9-10].
For My own sake, for My own sake, I do it, for how should My name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. [Isa 48:11].
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. [Isa 53:4-6].
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush Him. . .by His knowledge shall the Righteous One, My servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and He shall bear their iniquities. [Isa 53:10-11].
. . .He bore the sin of many and makes intercession for transgressors. [Isa 53:12].
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. [Isa 55:8].
So shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish what I purpose. . . [Isa 55:11].
Your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. [Isa 59:2].
You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. [Isa 62:6-7].
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a [dirty] garment. [Isa 64:6].
. . .We are the clay and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. [Isa 64:8].
Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” [Jer 7:4].
I know, O Lord, the way of man is not in himself, it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing. [Jer 10:23-24].
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it. [Jer 17:9].
Ah, Lord God! It is You who have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for You. [Jer 32:17].
Call to Me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things you have not known. [Jer 33:3].
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it. [Lam 3:37].
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come. [Lam 3:38].
You, O Lord, reign forever; Your throne endures to all generations. [Lam 5:19].
Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old; unless You have utterly rejected us. . . [Lam 5:21-22].
Therefore say to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.” [Eze 36:22].
And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful to obey My rules. [Eze 36:26-27].
. . .Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. [Dan 2:20-21].
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing and He does according to His will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand or say to him, “What have you done?” [Dan 4:35].
. . .For we do not present our pleas before You because of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercy. [Dan 9:18].
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. . . [Hos 4:6].
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord. [Hos 6:3].
They made kings but not through Me. [Hos 8:4].
. . .The ways of the Lord are right and the upright walk in them but transgressors stumble in them. [Hos 14:9].
. . .Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. [Joe 2:32].
. . .Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it? [Amo 3:6].
For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. [Oba 1:15].
. . .Salvation belongs to the Lord. [Jon 2:9].
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. [Mic 4:5].
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God? [Mic 6:8].
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong. . . [Hab 1:13].
The righteous will live by his faith. [Hab 2:4 ].
But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him. [Hab 2:20].
O Lord, I have heard the report of You and Your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. [Hab 3:2].
. . .Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. [Zec 4:6].
For I the Lord do not change. . . [Mal 3:6].
She will bear a son and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. [Mat 1:21].
[Jesus said] Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. [Mat 4:17].
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [Mat 6:19-21].
. . .If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness. [Mat 6:23].
No one can serve two masters, for he will hate the one and love the other. . . [Mat 6:24].
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. [Mat 6:33-34].
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. [Mat 7:13-14].
Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father. . . [Mat 7:21].
. . .I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. [Mat 10:34].
Whoever does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. [Mat 10:38-39].
From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it. [Mat 11:12].
. . .No one knows the Son except the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 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. [Mat 11:27-30].
. . .For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes. [Mat 18:7].
. . .”Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven” . . .When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” [Mat 19:23-26].
. . .The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. [Mat 20:28].
For many are called, but few are chosen. [Mat 22:14].
For this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. [Mat 26:28].
. . .All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 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, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. [Mat 28:18-20].
. . .the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the Gospel. [Mar 1:15].
. . .No one is good except God alone. . . [Mar 10:18].
Why do you call Me “Lord, Lord” and not do what I tell you. [Luk 6:46].
If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? [Luk 9:23-25].
I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children. [Luk 10:21].
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. [Luk 12:51].
. . .unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. [Luk 13:5].
And someone said to Him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And He said to them, ‘strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” [Luk 13:23-24].
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? [Luk 14:27-28].
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. [Luk 19:10].
But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. [Joh 1:12-13].
. . .Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. [Joh 3:3].
Do not marvel that I said to you, “You must be born again.” The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. [Joh 3:7-8].
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. [Joh 3:16].
. . .whoever does not believe is condemned already. . . [Joh 3:18].
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. [Joh 3:19].
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. [Joh 3:36].
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will. [Joh 5:21].
How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? [Joh 5:44].
. . .This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent. [Joh 6:29].
All the Father gives Me will come to Me and whoever comes to Me I will never cast out. [Joh 6:37].
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. . . [Joh 6:44].
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. . . [Joh 6:63].
. . .No one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father. [Joh 6:65].
If you abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. [Joh 8:31-32].
But you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me. [Joh 10:26-27].
I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. [Joh 10:28-29].
He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn and I would heal them. [Joh 12:40].
. . .I know whom I have chosen. . . [Joh 13:18].
. . .I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. [Joh 14:6].
I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away and every branch that does bear fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. [Joh 15:1-2].
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. [Joh 15:5-6].
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. . . [Joh 15:16].
If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. . . [Joh 15:18-19].
. . .I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. [Joh 17:9].
Father, I desire they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory You have given Me because you loved Me before the foundation of the world. [Joh 17:24].
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. [Act 4:12].
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory. . . [Act 12:23].
. . .As many as were appointed to eternal life believed. [Act 13:48].
. . .through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. [Act 14:22].
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia . . .The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. [Act 16:14].
And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place. [Act 17:26].
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom He has appointed; and of this He has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead. [Act 17:30-31].
. . .From among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. [Act 20:30].
For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. . . [Rom 1:16].
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. [Rom 1:18].
For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. [Rom 1:20].
For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools. [Rom 1:21-22].
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. [Rom 1:24-25].
Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. [Rom 1:32].
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. [Rom 2:5].
. . .No one is righteous. . .no one understands; no one seeks after God. [Rom 3:10-12].
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. [Rom 3:23].
Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over former sins. It was to show His righteousness at the present time, so that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. [Rom 3:25-26].
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. [Rom 5:1].
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. [Rom 5:6].
God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [Rom 5:8].
. . .While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. . . [Rom 5:10].
. . .Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned. [Rom 5:12].
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it. [Rom 6:1-2].
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know . . .you are slaves of the one whom you obey. . . [Rom 6:15-16].
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Rom 6:23].
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. [Rom 7:15].
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? [Rom 7:24].
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. [Rom 8:1-2].
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. [Rom 8:3-4].
For the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. [Rom 8:7-8].
For all led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [Rom 8:14].
For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. [Rom 8:18].
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. [Rom 8:26-27].
And we know for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. 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. [Rom 8:28-29].
And those whom He predestined He also called and those whom He called he also justified and those whom He justified He also glorified. [Rom 8:30].
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Rom 8:37-39].
Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad – in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” [Rom 9:11-13].
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For He said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. [Rom 9:14-16].
So then He has mercy on whomever He wills and He hardens whomever He wills. [Rom 9:18].
You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” [Rom 9:19-20].
What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory – even us whom He has called?. . . [Rom 9:22-24].
Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame. [Rom 9:33].
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. [Rom 10:3-4].
If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. [Rom 10:9-10].
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? [Rom 11:33-34].
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen. [Rom 11:36].
. . .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. So that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good, acceptable and perfect. [Rom 12:1-2].
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. . . [Rom 16:20].
Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. [1Co 1:8-9].
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world . . .so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of Him you are in Christ Jesus . . .so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” [1Co 1:26-31].
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. [1Co 2:6].
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. [1Co 2:14].
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. . . [1Co 3:18-19].
. . .What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? [1Co 4:7].
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 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. [1Co 6:9-11].
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. [1Co 6:19-20].
. . .Do all to the glory of God. [1Co 10:31].
. . .There must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. [1Co 11:19].
This is why many of you are weak and ill and some have died. But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would be spared this judgment. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. [1Co 11:30-32].
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you; unless you believed in vain. [1Co 15:1-2].
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. [2Co 5:10].
. . .If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. . . [2Co 5:17].
For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. [2Co 5:21].
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ. [2Co 10:5].
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. . . [2Co 13:5].
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. [Gal 1:3-4].
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” [Gal 3:10].
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.” [Gal 3:13].
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self- control; against such things there is no law. [Gal 5:22].
. . .He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. . .In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will. [Eph 1:4-5].
In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will. [Eph 1:11].
. . .The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you. . . [Eph 1:17-18].
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 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 – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind. . . [Eph 2:1-3].
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. . . [Eph 2:4-5].
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. [Eph 2:8-9].
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them. [Eph 2:10].
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. [Eph 5:8].
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. [Eph 5:25].
. . .He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. [Php 1:6].
. . .At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. [Php 2:10-11].
. . .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. [Php 2:12-13].
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. [Php 3:3].
Rejoice in the Lord always. . . [Php 4:4].
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. [Php 4:6].
. . .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. [Php 4:8].
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. [Col 1:13-14].
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. [Col 1:16].
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him, if indeed you continue in the faith. . . [Col 1:21-23].
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ. For in Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. [Col 2:6-9].
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with [Christ], having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in Him. [Col 2:13-15].
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. [Col 3:17].
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. [Col 4:2].
For we know, brothers loved by God, He has chosen you. [1Th 1:4].
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. [1Th 5:16-18].
He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it. [1Th 5:24].
. . .God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. [2Th 2:13].
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. [1Ti 4:16].
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. [2Ti 1:9].
. . .But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced He is able to guard until the Day what has been entrusted to me. [2Ti 1:12].
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. [2Ti 2:15].
Correcting His opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. [2Ti 2:25-26].
All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. [2Ti 3:12-13].
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. [2Ti 3:16-17].
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound doctrine, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. [2Ti 4:3].
They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. [Tit 1:16].
. . .Teach what accords with sound doctrine. [Tit 2:1].
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy. . . [Tit 3:5].
. . .He upholds the universe by the word of His power. . . [Heb 1:3].
For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. [Heb 3:4].
And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. [Heb 3:18-19].
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. [Heb 4:12].
Although [Christ] was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. And being made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him. [Heb 5:8-9].
Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. . . [Heb 9:15].
. . .Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. [Heb 9:22].
. . .It is appointed for man to die once and after this comes judgment. [Heb 9:27].
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Heb 11:1].
Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe He exists and He rewards those who seek Him. [Heb 11:6].
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race set before us. [Heb 12:1].
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings. . . [Heb 13:8-9].
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach. . . [Jam 1:5].
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. [Jam 1:13].
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth. . . [Jam 1:18].
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [Jam 1:22].
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him. [Jam 2:14].
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe – and shudder. [Jam 2:19].
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness”. . . [Jam 2:21-23].
. . .Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? . . . [Jam 4:4].
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. [Jam 4:7].
. . .What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. [Jam 4:14].
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. [Jam 5:9].
. . .Those who are elect . . .according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ. [1Pe 1:1-2].
. . .According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again. . . [1Pe 1:3].
You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. [1Pe 1:23].
. . . They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. [1Pe 2:8-9].
. . .But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps. [1Pe 2:20-21].
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. [1Pe 2:24].
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are open to their prayer. . . [1Pe 3:12].
. . .Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect. [1Pe 3:15].
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which He went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey. . . [1Pe 3:18-20].
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self- controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. [1Pe 4:7].
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when His glory is revealed. [1Pe 4:13].
If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? [1Pe 4:18].
Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you. [1Pe 5:7].
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. [2Pe 2:19].
The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing any should perish, but all should reach repentance. [2Pe 3:9].
. . .Take care that you are not carried away with the teachings of lawless people . . . [2Pe 3:17].
. . .God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. [1Jo 1:5-9].
By this we know we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. Whoever says “I know Him” but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in Him: whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which He walked. [1Jo 2:3-6].
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 lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and pride of life – is not from the Father but is from the world. [1Jo 2:15-16].
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. . . [1Jo 2:19].
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. [1Jo 3:8].
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. [1Jo 4:10].
We love Him because He first loved us. [1Jo 4:19].
By this we know we love the children of God, when we love God and obey His commandments. [1Jo 5:2].
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. [1Jo 5:12].
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. [1Jo 5:13].
We know we are from God and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. [1Jo 5:19].
And we know 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. [1Jo 5:20].
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. [1Jo 5:21].
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. [2Jo 8-9].
To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ. [Jud 1].
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. [Jud 4].
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. [Jud 24-25].
Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things and by Your will they existed and were created. [Rev 4:11].
Worthy are You to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain and by Your blood You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation and You have made them a kingdom and priests to our God and they shall reign on the earth. [Rev 5:9-10].
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. [Rev 12:11].
All who dwell on earth will worship [the beast], everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain. [Rev 13:8].
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. [Rev 13:10].
. . .Great and amazing are Your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed. [Rev 15:3-4].
. . .And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast. . . [Rev 17:8].
. . .Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for His judgments are true and just. . . [Rev 19:1-2].
. . .The name by which He is called is The Word of God. . .From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron. . .On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. [Rev 19:13-16].
If anyone’s name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. [Rev 20:15].
He who testifies to these things says, “surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. [Rev 22:20-21].
*All Scripture passages are from the English Standard Version (ESV).
