Points to Ponder

Micah 6:8 And what does the Lord require? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with God. (editor' note: see also Hosea 4:6 - For I desire mercy, not sacrifice.) 

Eccl. 12:13 Fear God and keep His commandments for this is the whole duty of man (editor's note: see also point # 53) 

Isaiah 43:21... the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim My praise ( editor's note: I Pe.2:9 But you are a chosen people… ie. Isaiah 43:21 applies to us; see also Eph.3:6 and point # 88) 

I Cor.8:4 We...know that there is no God but one 

Ro.3:30 ...since there is only one God. 

Mk.12:29 ...The Lord our God is one. 

Mk.12:32 You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other like Him. 

Gal.3:20 ...God is one... 

I Tim.2:5 For there is one God... 

Ja.2:19 You believe there is one God, good! Even the demons believe that and shudder 

Ps.97:9 For You, O Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. You are exalted above all gods. 

Isaiah 37:16 O Lord Almighty, God of Israel...You alone are God over the kingdoms of the earth. 

Ps.86:8 Among the gods there is none like You O Lord. 

I Sam.2:2 There is no one Holy like the Lord, there is no one besides You... 

II Sam.7:22 There is no one like You and there is no God but You... 

I Ki.8:60 ...The Lord is God and there is no other 

Ex.18:11 ...the Lord is greater than all the other gods 

Ex.9:14 ...there is no one like Me in all the earth 

Deut.4:35 ...the Lord is God; besides Him there is no other. 

Deut.6:4 ...the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 

Isaiah 45:5 I am the Lord and there is no other; apart from Me there is no God. 

Isaiah 45:6 I am the Lord and there is no other. 

Isaiah 46:9 I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. 

Jer.10:6 No one is like You O Lord. 

Joel 2:27 ...I am the Lord your God and there is no other. 

Heb.6:13 When God made His promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for Him to swear by He swore by Himself. 

John 5:18 ...He was even calling God His own father making Himself equal with God 

John 4:26 I who speak to you am He (Messiah) ...vs42...savior of the world (parenthesis added) 

Matt.1:23 ...will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel - which means, "God with us." (Isaiah 7:14) 

Matt.28:19 ...baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 

John 8:58 ...before Abraham was born, I Am (editor's note: in Ex.3:14 God said to Moses ..."I am who I am...I am has sent me." 

John10:33 You a mere man claim to be God 

John 17:5 Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the Glory I had with you before the world began 

John 10:30 I and the Father are one 

John 10:38 Father is in Me and I in the Father 

John 12:45 When he looks at Me, he sees the One who sent Me. 

John 17:11 ...that they may be one as we are one... 

John 17:21 ...that all of them may be one Father just as You are in Me and I am in You. 

John 20:28 (Thomas said to Jesus) ...My Lord and my God (parenthesis added) 

Mk.12:36 The Lord said to my Lord 

Heb.1:8 But about the Son He says, "Your throne O God will last forever 

John 1:1 ...the Word was God... (editor's note: In Heb.1:1 the Greek word for God is Theos, and there it refers to the Son) 

I Tim.6:15 (Father is being referred to here) ...God(Theo) the blessed and only ruler, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords... (In Rev.17:14 & 19:16 Jesus is called "King of Kings and Lord of Lords) 

Titus 3:4 God (Theo) our savior (parenthesis added) 

Phil 2:6 ...who being in very nature God... (Theo) (parenthesis added) 

Titus 2:13 ...we wait for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our great God (Theo) and savior Jesus Christ. (parenthesis added) 

Lk.5:20&21 When Jesus saw their faith He said, "Friends your sins are forgiven" ...who can forgive sins but God (Theo) alone (parenthesis added) 

Ro.9:5 ...ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever be praised. 

Col.1:17 He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. 

Col.2:9 ...in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form (editor's note:see also Col.1:19 and 1:15) 

Heb.1:3 ...the Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being. 

Heb.12:23 you have come to God, the Judge of all men, (editor's note:see John 5:22) 

Lk.6:15 ...the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath ( editor's note: Isaiah 58:13 ...if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord's Holy Day honorable) 

Rev.1:17 I am the first and the last (editor's note: Isaiah 44:6 ...This is what the Lord says...I am the first and the last) 

Rev.2:23 ...I am He who searches hearts and minds (editor's note: Jer.17:10 I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind... II Chron.6:14&30 O Lord God of Israel...for You alone know the hearts of men - see also I Ki.8:39) 

Isaiah 9:6 ...He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Heb.10:15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us...He says...this is the covenant I will make with them after that says the Lord (editor's note: in this verse the Holy Spirit claims Deity for Himself by saying He is the Lord who spoke these words see Jer.31:33-34.
editor's note: Holy Spirit is not an "it," but a person, for He refers to Himself as "He," see also John 16:13 ...when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide..., also Eph.1:14 ...who) 

II Cor.3:18 ...which comes from the Lord, who is Spirit 

Heb.9:14 ...who through the eternal Spirit 

II Tim.3:16 All Scripture is God breathed... 

Acts 1:16 The Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke... 

Isaiah 48:16...the Sovereign Lord has sent me with His Spirit. 

Joel 2:28 ...I will pour out My Spirit on all people 

Acts 5:3&4 ...you have lied to the Holy Spirit...you have not lied to man but to God. 

Matt.28:19 ...baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 

I John 5:16 There is a sin that leads to death, I am not saying that he should pray about that. 

Lk.12:10 Anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven 

Mk.3:29 Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, he is guilty of an eternal sin. 

Matt.12:32 Anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this age or in the age to come. 

Heb.6:4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted of the heavenly gift, who have shared in the powers of the coming age, if they fall away to be brought back to repentance because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace. (ie. saved, Spirit filled, walking in gifts of the Spirit, then fall away) (parenthesis added) 

Mk.3:30 He said this because they were saying "He has an evil Spirit" (ie. Jesus' teaching on blaspheme of the Holy Spirit was prompted by the accusation that He was walking in the power of satan, and not that of God.) (parenthesis added) 

Author's note:    Unforgivable sin can only  be committed by a spirit filled believer who walked in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, then fell away and said that the gifts he had walked in were from satan 

Ro.8:14 ...those who are led by the Spirit of God are Sons of God 

Acts 19:2&6 Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit...when Paul placed his hands on them the Holy Spirit came on them... 

Acts 8:12&15-16 ...when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women... When they arrived (Peter&John) they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. (parenthesis added) 

Acts 10:44 (editor's note: Cornellus and his household receive baptism of Holy Spirit) 

Gal.3:14 By faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. 

Gal.3:2 Did you receive the Spirit by observing the Law or by believing what you heard? ( editor's note: see also vs.5) 

I Cor.2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them. 

Eph.1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may giveyou the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know Him, better. (  editor's note: If you get it all when you are saved - and the Ephesians were saved - why was it necessary for them to get more of God, ie. Spirit of wisdom and revelation in order to know Him better?) 

I Cor.2:9-10 No mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him, but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. 

I Cor.12:7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 

Lk.16:13 Which of you Fathers if your son asks for a fish will give him a snake instead...How much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? 

Matt.22:29 with Acts 1:8 ...you are in error because you do not know ...power of God ... you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. (editor's note: see also Lk.24:49) 

I Cor.14:12 ...try to excel in gifts that build up the Church. 

I Cor.14:26 ...all these must be done for the strengthening of the Church. 

Eph.4:11&12 It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets...so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (editor's note: needless to say, we are not there yet, we still need these gifts at work today) 

II Cor.12:12 The things that mark an apostle - signs, wonders, miracles 

Ro.8:9 ...the creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 

Jude 20 ...and pray in the Holy spirit 

Eph.6:18 Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. 

Eph.5:18 ...be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. 

Col.3:16 ...as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 

I Cor.14:14-15 If I pray in a tongue my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit but I will also sing with my mind. 

I Cor.14:2 ...anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God... He utters mysteries with his spirit. 

I Cor.13:1 ...speak in tongues of men and of angels... 

Ro.8:26 We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 

I Cor.14:4 ...he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself 

Jude 20 ...build yourself up in your most holy faith. 

I Cor.14:5 I would like every one of you to speak in tongues... 

I Cor.14:39 ...do not forbid speaking in tongues 

Lk.6:21 Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh 

Matt.5:4 Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted 

Joel 2:17 Let the priests who minister before the Lord, weep between the temple porch and the altar, let them say "Spare Your people O Lord." 

Lk.19:4 As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it... 

Heb.5:7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears... 

Acts 20:19&31 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears...For three years I neverstopped warning each of you night and day with tears... 

Ps.32:6 Therefore, let everyone who is Godly pray to You while You may be found. 

Eph.6:18 ...pray in the Spirit on all occasions. 

I Thes.5:16 ...pray continually... 

Phil.4:6 ...in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your requests to God. 

Acts 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God... 

Acts 1:14 They all joined together constantly in prayer. 

Lk.6:12 Jesus went out into the hills to pray and spent the night praying to God. 

Mk.6:46 ...He went into the hills to pray 

Lk.22:39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives...vs.41 and prayed. 

Lk.5:16 Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. 

Mk.1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place where He prayed. 

Lk.9:29 He...went up into a mountain to pray, As He was praying the appearance of His face changed and His clothes became as bright as a flash of lightening. 

Col.4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer. 

Col.4:12 He is always wrestling in prayer for you. 

Lk.22:44 ...being in anguish, He prayed more earnestly. 

Ja.5:16 The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. 

II Cor.10:4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 

Phil.2:4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 

Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for His friends, the Lord made him prosperous again. 

Matt.5:44 ...love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be Sons of your Father in heaven. 

Ez.22:30 I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none. 

Isaiah 59:16 ...He was appalled that there was no one to intercede 

Lk.11:1&5-11 ...Lord teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples...(what followed in vs.5-11 is the parable of the neighbor who comes at midnight, this entire parable is about intercession.) (parenthesis added) 

John 17:20 My prayer is not for them alone, I pray also for those who will believe. 

I John 2:6 Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did. 

Ro.1:9 God...is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times. 

II Tim.1:3 ...night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 

Eph.6:18-19 (at conclusion of description of armor in vs.11-17) ...and pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. 

John 16:11 ...the prince of this world now stands condemned 

Matt.12:29 ...how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? 

Ps.149:6&8 May the praise of God be in their mouths...to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with shackles of iron. 

Col.4:12 ...he is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. 

Eph.1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ ...may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know Him better. 

Phil.1:9 ...this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless. 

II Cor.13:7 ...Our prayer is for your perfection. 

I Thes.5:23 May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Heb.13:20 May the God of peace... equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him... 

I Thes.3:10 (Paul's prayer) Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. (parenthesis added) 

Ex.32:9,11&12 I have seen these people, the Lord said to Moses... now leave Me alone so that My anger may burn against them... But Moses sought the favor of the Lord His God... Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on Your people... Then the Lord relented and did not bring on His people the disaster He had threatened ( editor's note: Ps.106:23, Nu.16:46&48 incense=prayer) 

II Sam.24:25 David built an altar to the Lord there, and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered their prayer in behalf of the land and the plague on Israel was stopped. 

I Tim.2:1 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers and intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quite lives in all gentleness and holiness. 

I Thes.5:25 Brothers pray for us... 

Heb.13:18 Pray for us... 

II Cor.1:11 ...as you help us by your prayers 

Ro.15:30 Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Jesus 

Phil.1:19 ...I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. 

II Thes.3:1 Finally brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored just as it was with you. 

Col.4:3 Pray for us too that God may open a door for our message 

Col.4:4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly as I should 

Eph.6:19 Pray for me also... that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the Gospel 

John 15:7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you ask whatever you wish and it will be given you. 

John 16:23 ...My Father will give you whatever you ask in My Name 

John 15:16 ...bear fruit, fruit that will last, then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My Name. 

Mk.11:24 ...whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have received it and it will beyours 

Matt.21:22 ...if you believe you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. 

Mk.11:25 ...and when you stand praying... forgive 

I John 3:22 Receive from Him anything we ask because we obey His
commands and do what pleases Him. 

I John 5:14 ...if we ask according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us whatever we ask, we know we have what we asked of Him. 

Heb.5:7 ...He was heard because of His reverent submission. 

Ps.66:17 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 

Isaiah 59:2 Your sins have hidden His face from you so that he will not hear. 

John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the Godly man who does His will. 

Prov.15:8 ...the prayer of the upright pleases Him. 

II Chron.7:14 If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

I John 1:9 If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins. 

I Pe.3:7 ...husbands ...be considerate... treat them with respect so that nothing will hinder your prayer. 

I Pe.4:4 ...be clear minded and self controlled so that you can pray 

Ja.1:6 ...but when he prays he must not doubt 

Ja.4:2 You do not have because you do not ask (editor's note: see also Phil.2:4) 

Ja.4:3 When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives.

Hab.2:3 For the revelation awaits and appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will clearly come and will not delay. 

Isaiah 60:22 I am the Lord, in it's time I will do it swiftly. 

II Pe.3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. 

Lk.1:19-20 I am Gabriel, I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news and now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time. 

Ps.105:18 (Joseph) They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons, till what he foretold came to pass, till the Word of the Lord proved him true.(parenthesis added) 

I Ki.18:24,36-38 The god who answers by fire - He is God... O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel... Then fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the soil and also licked up the water in the trench. 

Acts 5:38-39 For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God. 

Ps.135:14 For the Lord will vindicate His people... 

Isaiah 50:7-8 Because the Sovereign Lord helps me I will not be disgraced. Therefore, have I set my face like flint and I know I will not be put to shame. He who vindicates me is near (Ps.118:6-7) 

Jer.51:10 The Lord has vindicated us; come let us tell Zion what the Lord our God has done 

Ps.35:27 May those who delight in my vindication shout for Joy... may they always say, "The Lord be exalted." 

Nu.23:19 does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and then not fulfill? 

Josh.23:14 ...Not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. 

Josh.21:45 Not one of all the Lord's good promises to the house of Israel failed; every one was fulfilled. (editor's note: see also I Ki.8:56) 

Ps.145:3 The Lord is faithful to all His promises 

Rev.19:11 ...there before me was a white horse whose rider is called Faithful and True. 

Gen.18:14 Is anything to hard for the Lord? 

Nu.11:23 The Lord answered Moses, "Is the Lord's arm to short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true." 

Isaiah 55:11 So is My Word that goes out from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 

Jer.1:12 ...I am watching to see that My Word is fulfilled. 

Ez.36:22 ..I am going to do these things... for the sake of My Holy Name. 

Ez.12:28 Whatever I say will be fulfilled. 

Isaiah 46:11 What I have said, that will I bring about: what I have planned, that will I do. 

Job 42:2 ...No plan of Yours can be thwarted 

I Cor.1:9 God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ, is faithful.

Eph.3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine... to Him be glory. 

Gen.14:22 I have raised my hand to... God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth. 

Ps.50:10&12 ...for every animal of the forest is Mine, all the cattle on a thousand hills... the world is Mine and all that is in it. 

John 10:10 ...I have come that they may have life more abundantly (KJV) 

Rev.4:11 ...for You created all things and by Your will they were created and have their being. 

II Pe.1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. 

Phil.4:13 I can do everything through Him who gives me strength 

Lk.18:27 What is impossible with men is possible with God ( editor's note: see also Mk.10:27 & Matt.19:26) 

Jer.32:27 I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything to hard for Me? 

Matt.6:33 Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. 

Mk.10:29-30 No one who has left home... or fields for Me and the Gospel will fail to receive 100 times as much in this present age. 

Heb.11:6 Anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him 

Deut.28:11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity... 

Deut.28:13 If you pay attention to the commandments of the Lord... you will always be on top and never on the bottom. 

Ps.25:13 He will spend His days in prosperity... 

Ps.31:19 How great is Your goodness... which You bestow in the sight of men. 

Ps.23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies... my cup overflows 

Ps.35:27 The Lord be exalted who delights in the well being of His servants. 

Prov.10:22 The blessings of the Lord being wealth and He adds no trouble to it. 

Mal.3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse... test Me in this and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessings that you will not have room enough. 

Lk.6:38 Give and it will be given unto you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. 

Prov.13:21 Prosperity is the reward of the righteous 

Ps.112:1&3 Blessed is the man who fears the Lord... wealth and riches are in his house. 

Prov.8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness along the paths of justice bestowing wealth on those who love Me and making their treasuries full. 

II Cor.9:11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion. 

II Cor.9:6 Whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 

Prov.19:17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and He will reward him for what he has done. 

Phil.4:19 My God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. 

Ps.37:21 The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously 

Ro.13:8 Let no debt remain outstanding except the continuing debt to love one another. 

Prov.22:7 The borrower is the servant of the lender. 

Deut.28:12 The Lord will open the heavens... you will lend to many nations but borrow from none. The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God... You will always be on top and never on the bottom. 

I John 3:22 ...receive from Him anything we ask because we obey His commands and do what pleases Him. 

I Thes.4:1&12 Finally brothers, we instruct you in how to live in order to please God... so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 

Phil.4:19 My God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. 

Matt.5:45 He causes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous. 

Ps.37:7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their schemes. 

Isaiah 26:10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness. 

Ps.73:2 I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong, they are free from the burdens common to men; they are not plagued by human ills ...vs16&17...when I tried to understand all this it was oppressive to me till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny. 

Ps.100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His court with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. 

Isaiah 60:18 ...you will call your walls salvation and your gates praise. 

Prov.15:6 ...the income of the wicked brings trouble 

Prov.21:6 A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare. 

Prov.28:8 He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another who will be kind to the poor. 

Eccl.2:26 To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom and knowledge and happiness but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. 

Prov.8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness among the paths of justice bestowing wealth on those who love Me and making their treasuries full. 

Ps.4:8 I will lie down and sleep in peace for You alone O Lord, make me dwell in safety. 

Ps.3:5 I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the Lord sustains me. 

Ps.127:2 ...He grants sleep to those He loves 

Prov.3:24 ...when you lie down you will not be afraid; when you lie down your sleep will be sweet. 

Prov.3:21-23 ...preserve sound judgment and discernment... then you will go on your way in safety 

Ps.91:9 If you make the Most High your dwelling... then no harm will befall you. 

Prov.21:23 He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity. 

Prov.1:33 ...whoever listens to Me (wisdom) will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm (parenthesis added) 

Prov.4:6 Do not forsake wisdom and she will protect you. 

Prov.3:25 Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked... 

Prov.3:8 ...He guards the course of the just and protects the way of the His faithful ones. 

Matt.8:17 He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases. 

Prov.4:20 ...listen closely to My words... they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body. 

Ps.103.3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. 

Isaiah 53:5 By His stripes we are healed. 

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God... vs14 ...the Word became flesh and lived for a while among us. 

Ps.107:20 He sent forth His word and healed them. 

John 6:38 I have come down from heaven not to do My will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. 

Matt.26:39 Yet not as I will; but as You will. 

Matt.6:10 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

Isaiah 33:24 ...No one living in Zion will say, 'I am ill.' 

John 12:50 Whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say. 

John 14:10 It is the Father living in Me who is doing His work. 

Mk.1:40 If you are willing you can make me clean... vs.41 ...'I am willing.' 

Heb.13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever. 

Isaiah 46:11 What I have said, that will I bring about. 

John 10:10 ...the thief comes to steal and kill and destroy 

John 10:10 ...I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. 

Acts 10:38 ...healing all who were under the power of the devil. 

Acts 3:16 It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through Him that has given this complete healing to him. 

Acts 28:27 ...they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them. 

Matt.13:16 But blessed are your eyes because see and your ears because they hear. 

I Pe.2:24 ...by His wounds you have been healed.

(used over 366 times in Scripture when God addresses man) 

I John 4:18 ...perfect love drives out fear. 

Heb.2:11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. 

John 15:15 ...I have called you friends... 

I Pe.5:7 ...cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 

Phil.4:6 ...do not be anxious about anything 

Lk.12:25 who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life. 

Ro.8:15 For you did not receive a Spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of Sonship. 

Matt.6:25 I tell you not to worry about your life... 

Matt.13:22 ...the worries of this life...choke it, making it unfruitful, (the Word) 

Matt.8:25 ...you of little faith, why are you afraid? 

Ps.31:23 The Lord preserves the faithful 

Ps.37:28 The Lord will not forsake His faithful ones 

Prov.11:8 The righteous man is rescued from trouble and it comes on the wicked instead. 

Prov.1:33 ...whoever listens to Me will live in safety and be at ease without fear of harm. 

Prov.3:25 Have no fear of sudden disaster... the Lord will... keep your foot from being snared. 

Ps.55:22 Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. 

Ps.55:18 He ransoms me unharmed from the battle waged against me even though many oppose me. 

Deut.33:27 The eternal God is your refuge... 

Ps.118:6 ...The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? 

Ps.27:1 The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? 

Prov.29:25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. 

Ps.112:8 His heart is secure, he will have no fear. 

Phil.1:27 ...stand firm... without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. 

Ps.56:11 In God I trust, I will not be afraid. 

Haggai 2:15 ...My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear. 

Joshua 1:5&9 As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you or forsake you. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. 

Matt.28:20 ...I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. 

II Tim.2:13 He will remain faithful, for He cannot disown Himself. 

I John 4:4 The One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 

Micah 4:4 No one will make them afraid for the Lord Almighty has spoken. 

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you ...do not be afraid. 

Phil.4:7 The peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 

Isaiah 43:1 Fear not for I have redeemed you... When you walk through the fire you will not be burned. 

Isaiah 41:10 So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed for I am your God. 

I John 3:2 ...when He appears we shall be like Him... everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself... 

Prov.24:14 ...there is a future hope for you and your hope will not be cut off. 

Ro.8:23 we ourselves...groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we are saved... who hopes for what he already has? 

II Cor.5:2 ...we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling... we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 

Ro.8:21 The creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay 

I Cor.15:51 The perishable must cloth itself with imperishable and the mortal with immortality. 

Titus 2:13 ...we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ 

Ro.5:2 ...we rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God... and hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holly Spirit whom He has given us. 

II Cor.5:4-5 ...what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. 

Ro.8:18 Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the Sons of God to be revealed. 

Eph.1:18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints. 

Prov.4:10 Listen my son, accept what I say and the years of your life will be many. 

Prov.9:11 For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. 

Ps.91:15-16 He will call upon Me and I will answer Him... with long life will I satisfy him... 

Ps.34:12-14 Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 

Ex.20:12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may live long. 

Ro.2:7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. 

Gen.6:3 My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years. 

Ps.90:10 The length of our days is seventy years or eighty, if we have the strength. (editor's note: this Psalm was written by Moses when the Israelites where wandering in the wilderness after they had refused to go into the promised land. This is not a new covenant which shortens God's promise of 120 years as given in Gen.6:30; rather, it shows the effect of refusing to obey God and walk as He directs.) 

II Tim.3:15 ...how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 

Ja.1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault and it will be given him. 

II Chron.1:10 Give me wisdom and knowledge. Since this is your hearts desire ...(it) will be given you. And I will also give you wealth. (parenthesis added) 

Ps.111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, all who follow His precepts have good understanding. 

Micah 6:9 ...to fear Your name is wisdom. 

Prov.9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom 

Prov.2:3-5 If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding and if you look for it as for hidden silver and search for it as for hidden treasure then you will understand the fear of the Lord. 

Prov.8:13 To fear the Lord is to hate evil 

Prov.2:2 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men. 

Col.2:2-3 They may know the mystery of God; namely Christ in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 

I Cor.1:30 It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus who has become for us wisdom. 

Prov.4:7 Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom 

Prov.3:13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom...vs16… long life is in her right hand and in her left hand are riches and honor. 

Ecc.7:12 Wisdom is a shelter... wisdom preserves the life of its possessor. 

Prov.11:2 With humility comes wisdom 

Prov.19:11 A man's wisdom gives him patience 

Eccl.2:26 To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom and knowledge and happiness... 

Prov.24:3 By wisdom a house is built and through understandingit is established. 

Ja.3:17 ...the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 

Ja.3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from wisdom. 

I Cor.2:10 The Spirit teaches all things, even the deep things of God. 

II Pe.3:16 (speaking of what Paul says)... his letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort. (parenthesis added) 

Isaiah 55:8-9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways declares the Lord, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. 

Ps.94:11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man 

John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it. 

I Cor.2:8 None of the rulers of this age understood... 

Lk.19:42 If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace, but now it has been hidden from your eyes. 

Col.1:26 ...the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints. 

Eph.3:4 ...the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets. 

I Cor.2:7 ...we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 

Matt.11:25 At that time Jesus said, "I praise You Father, Lord of Heaven and earth because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children." 

Matt.13:11 The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom have been given to you, but not tothem. 

I Cor.2:11 ...no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God 

Prov.12:3 The righteous cannot be uprooted. 

Prov.25:5 ...remove the wicked from the king's presence and His throne will be established through righteousness. 

Ps.119:119 All the wicked of the earth You discard like dross 

Prov.10:25 When the storm has swept by the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever 

Deut.4:1 The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed Baal...but all of you who held fast to the Lord are still alive. 

Prov.10:30 The righteous will never be uprooted but the wicked will not remain in the land 

Prov.2:21-23 For the upright will live in the land and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land and the unfaithful will be torn from it. 

Ps.37:19 (The righteous)...in times of disaster they will not wither, in days of famine they will enjoy plenty. (parenthesis added) 

Matt.13:24-50 (parable of the weeds)... first collect the weeds... the weeds are the sons of the evil one...the harvest is the end of the age and the harvesters are the angels...they will weed out of His kingdom everything that causes sin. (parenthesis added) 

Ps.9:2&10 I will sing praise to Your Name O Most High... those who know Your Name will trust in You, for You O Lord have never forsaken those who seek you. 

Dan.6:23 ...when Daniel was lifted from the den no wound was found on him because he had trusted in his God ( editor's note: Daniel knew God as the Most High; see Dan.4:12,17,24&25). 

Ps.91:9 If you make the Most High your dwelling, even the Lord who is my refuge, then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent...vs.14...I will protect him for he acknowledges My Name. 

Ps.50:14-15 Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High and call upon Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you and you will honor Me. 

Lk.1:32 & John 17:11 He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. ...Holy Father, protect them by the power of Your Name - the Name You gave Me. (Jesus was recognized even by the enemy as ...Son of the Most High - Mk.5:7) (parenthesis added) 

Lk.4:30, John 8:58, John 10:39 (Jesus protected) 

II Tim.4:2 Be prepared in season and out of season to correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. 

I Pe.3:15 Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. 

I Thes.2:13 ...(W)hen you received the Word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the Word of man, but as it actually is, the Word of God. 

Acts 4:25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant... 

Jer.1:12 I am watching to see that My Word is fulfilled. 

II Pe.1:21 ...prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but man spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 

Ps.18:30 ...the Word of God is flawless. 

Ps.12:6 The Words of the Lord are flawless. 

Prov.30:5 Every Word of God is flawless. 

II Tim.3:16 All Scripture is God breathed 

Ex.9:35 ...Just as the Lord had said through Moses... 

Ps.119:152 ...All your commands are true. 

Ps.119:160 All Your Words are true. 

Ps.33:4 For the Word of the Lord is right and true. 

Ps.111:7 ...all His precepts are trustworthy. 

Ps.119:89 Your Word O Lord is eternal, it stands firm in the heavens 

I Pe.1:25 The Word of the Lord stands firm forever. 

Isaiah 40:8 ...the flowers fall, but the Word of our God stands forever. 

Ro.15:4 Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 

Prov.30:6 Do not add to this or He will rebuke you and prove you a liar 

Rev.22:19 ...if anyone takes words away from this Book of Prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life... 

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us. 

Lk.2:49 KJV Know you not that I must be about My Father's business? 

John 14:10 It is the Father living in Me who is doing His work. 

John 2:16 My teaching is not My own. It comes from Him who sent Me. 

John 12:50 ...whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say. 

John 6:30 I have come down from heaven not to do My will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. (see also Matt.6:10) 

Eph.1:9 He made known the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Christ. 

John 14:10 I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. 

John 14:31 ...I do exactly what My Father has commanded Me. 

John 8:29 I always do what pleases Him. 

Mk.3:35 with Lk.8:21 Whoever does God's will is My brother and sister and mother ... My mother and brothers are those who hear God's Word and put it into practice (emphasis added) 

Matt.13:23 What was sown on good soil is the man who hears the Word and understands it. 

Rev.4:11 with II Pe.3:5 For You created all things and by Your will they were created ... by God's Word the heavens existed and the earth was formed. (emphasis added) 

Col.4:12 ...that you may stand firm in all the will of God (editor's note: remember, Jesus, the Word, is more than just the red letters, He is the whole Bible.) 

Heb.5:14 ...solid food is for the mature who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. 

II Tim.2:15 KJV Study to show thyself approved 

Col.3:16 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly 

John 15:7 If you remain in Me and My Words in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you. 

Matt.5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness 

II Pe.1:8 ...add to your faith... knowledge... if you possess these qualities in increasing measure they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of Christ. 

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were of more noble character ...for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul says was true. 

Joshua 1:8 meditate on it day and night... 

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from a lack of understanding. 

I Sam.15:23 Because you have rejected the Word of the Lord, He has rejected you as king. 

I Cor.4:6 Do not go beyond what is written.

II Cor.13:1 This will be my third visit to you. Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. 

Phil.3:1 It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 

Matt.18:16 ...every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. 

Job 33:14 For God does speak - now one way, now another, though man may not perceive it. 

Isaiah 48:16 From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret. 

Gen.41:32 The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God... 

Ro.15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 

I Cor.10:6&11 Now these things occurred as examples ...and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the end of the ages has come. 

Heb.10:1 The Law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming - not the realities themselves. 

Heb.8:5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. 

Col.2:16-17 (the regulations of the law)... These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality however is found in Christ. (parenthesis added) 

Gal.3:24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ... 

Ja.1:22 Do not merely listen to the Word... do what it says. 

Ja.2:26 Faith without deeds is dead. 

Phil.4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. 

Joshua 1:8 Do not let this book of then law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be successful and prosperous, ( editor's note: new covenant for us; but same admonition) 

Heb.4:2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us; just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them because those who heard it did not combine it with faith. 

Lk.11:24 ...blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey it. 

Acts 26:20 ...I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds. 

Lk.8:21 ... my mother and brothers are those who hear God's Word and put it into practice. 

Ps.119:9 How can a young man keep his way (soul) pure? By living according to Your Words. (parenthesis added)

Gal.5:7 You were running a good race, who cut in and kept you from obeying the truth? 

I Cor.9:24 Run in such a way as to get the price. 

II Tim.2:5 ...if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victors crown unless he competes according to the rules... reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this. 

Phil.3:14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heaven ward in Christ Jesus. 

Ex.40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of Meeting, and the Lord filled the Tabernacle. (eidtor's note: When? After it was built according to the pattern - see Heb.8:5) 

II Chron.5:1&13 When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished ... Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud ...the glory of the Lord filled the temple (eidtor's note: When? After it was built according to the pattern - see I Chron.28:12) 

I Cor.6:19; I Pe.2:5; Haggai 2:9; II Cor.3:8&18 and Phil.3:21 (editor's note: our physical bodies are being guilt into a living temple which God's glory will inhabit; more than merely our faces will radiate this glory. It will be our entire body as was true with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. But this will not happen until the Church lives and builds according to God's pattern. After all, God's glory has never inhabited one of His temples until after it has been built according to His pattern.) 

Heb.11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 

II Cor.4:18 ...we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. 

Jer.44:17-18&23 ( editor's note: paid attention to physical circumstances which were misleading and thereby sinned against God.) 

II Cor.5:7 we live by faith and not by sight. 

Ro.4:17 God ...who calls things that are not as though they were. 

Heb.11:3 What is seen was not made out of what is visible. 

Prov.3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. 

John 4:24 God is Spirit. 

Rev.4:11 ... You created all things... (editor's note: spirit creates physical) 

Ro.4:19 Without weakening in his faith he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead ...yet he did not waiver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith ...it was credited to him as righteousness. 

Hab.2:4 The righteous will live by faith. 

Ro.14:23 everything that does not come from faith is sin. 

Heb.11:6 Without faith it is impossible to please God. 

Eph.6:13 ...put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes you may be able to stand. 

II Cor.1:24 ...it is by faith you stand 

Isaiah 7:9 If you don't stand firm in your faith you will not stand at all. 

Ez.14:13&20 Son of man, if a country sins against me... and I stretch out my hand against it... even if these three men; Noah, Daniel and Job were in it; they could save only themselves, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness. 

Heb.11:20 ...they were broken off because of unbelief and you stand by faith 

Mk.11:14 Have faith of God 

Mk.11:24 whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours. (just because you do not see it in the physical realm does not mean that it is not already yours in the spiritual realm) 

II Ki.6:15&17 'Oh my lord, what shall we do?' the servant asked, and Elisha prayed "Oh Lord open his eyes so that he may see." Then the Lord opened the servants eyes and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. (editor's note: faith will change the physical circumstances of our lives so that they conform to the spiritual reality.) 

I Tim.4:1 Some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits. 

Jude 19 These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. 

Ro.10:17 Faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the Word of Christ. 

Prov.1:32 ... the complacency of fools will destroy them. 

Neh.9:17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles You performed among them. 

Ps.78:10 They forgot what He has done, the wonders He had showed them. 

Nu.14:11 How long will they refuse to believe in Me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? 

Mk.16:17&20 And these signs will accompany those who believe; in My name they will speak in new tongues... The Lord worked with them and confirmed His Word by the signs that accompanied it.

 Isaiah 8:18 we are signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord Almighty who dwells on Mt Zion. 

John 14:12 ...anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things. 

II Cor.12:12 The things that mark an apostle - signs, wonders and miracles. 

Heb.2:4 This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will. 

John 20:30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of His disciples which were not recorded in this book. but these are written that you may believe. 

John 2:2 Now while He was in Jerusalem... many people saw the miraculous signs He was doing and believed in His name. 

Acts 2:22 Jesus of Nazerath was a man accredited by God to you by miraculous signs and wonders (John 14:11 ...at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.) 

Matt.10:8 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions ...heal the sick, raise the dead, drive out demons... 

Lk.10:17&19 The seventy two returned with joy... He replied, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the powers of the enemy... 

I Thes.1:5 ... because our Gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. 

Acts 10:44-46 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all ... the circumcised ...were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured on the gentiles ... for they heard them speaking in tongues. 

I Cor.14:24 ...but if an unbeliever ....comes in while everyone is prophesying he will be convinced by all that he is a sinner ...so he will fall down and worship God. 

I Cor.14:12 Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts try to excel in gifts that build up the church. 

I Cor.14:31 For you can all prophecy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 

Titus 1:2 ...resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time. 

Heb.6:18 ...it is impossible for God to lie... 

I Sam.15:29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie. 

II Sam.7:28 O Sovereign Lord, you are God; Your Words are trustworthy 

Nu.23:19 God is not a man that He should lie. 

Ps.5:6 You destroy those who tell lies 

Isaiah 45:19 I the Lord speak the truth.

Heb.6:17 ...God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear... 

Ja.1:17 ...coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights who does not change like shifting shadows... 

Mal.3:6 I the Lord do not change. 

Heb.1:12 But you remain the same 

Heb.13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever. 

Ps.89:34 I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered. 

Ps.110:4 The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind. 

Isaiah.45:23 My mouth has uttered in all integrity a Word that will not be revoked. 

Job 42:2 ... no plan of Yours can be thwarted

Acts 10:34 I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 

Deut.10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality. 

II Chron.19:7 For with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery 

Ro.2:11 For God does not show favoritism 

I Pe.1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. 

Eph.6:9 ... there is no favoritism with Him (Father) (parenthesis added) 

I Tim.5:21 ... I charge you in the sight of God... to keep these instructions ...and do nothing out of favoritism. 

Prov.28:21 To show partiality is not good... 

Gal.3:7 Understand then, that those who believe are children of Abraham

Ro.9:8 It is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. 

Eph.3:6 This mystery is that through the gospel the gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. 

John 11:51 ...he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation and not only for that nation, but also for the scattered children of God. 

Eph.4:25 ... we are all members of one body 

Gal.6:16 JB Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, who form the Israel of God 

Ro.10:12 For there is no difference between Jew and gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on Him. 

Eph.2:13 ...you who were once far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ ...vs14 (Gentile and Israel) ... who has made the two one. (parenthesis added) 

John 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 

I Cor.12:27 ...now you are the body of Christ 

Col.3:15 ...as members of one body you are called to peace. 

Col.1:24 ...for the sake of His body which is the Church. 

Col.1:18 ...He is head of the body which is the Church. 

Eph.1:13 you also are included in Christ when you heard the Word of Truth. 

Gal.3:29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise 

Gal.3:9 ...those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham the man of faith. 

Gen.12:3 I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse. 

Gen.27:29 May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed. 

Gen.31:7&9 ...yet your father had cheated me by changing wages ten times... so God has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me. 

Nu.24:9 May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed. 

Jer.2:3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of His harvest, all who devour her were held guilty and disaster overtook them. 

Jer.30:16 ...those who plunder you will be plundered; all who spoil of you I will despoil. 

Nu.22:12 ...you must not put a curse on those people. 

Ps.122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may those who love you be secure 

Esther 10:3 Mordecai...was second... to... Xerxes because he... spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.

Ro.10:10 It is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 

Matt.10:32 Whoever acknowledges Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father in heaven. But whoever disowns Me before men; I will disown Him before My Father in heaven. 

Prov.18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death. 

Prov.18:7 ...a fool's mouth is his undoing and his lips are a snare to his soul. 

Prov.12:13 An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble. 

Prov.12:18 Reckless words pierce like a sword. 

Nu.14:28 I will do to you the very things I heard you say; in this desert your bodies will fall. 

Ps.141:3 ...set a guard over my mouth O Lord; help watch over the door of my lips 

Matt.12:37 ...by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned. 

Ps.34:17 The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their trouble. 

Prov.17:27 A man of knowledge uses words with restraint 

Eph.5:19 Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs... 

Lk.6:45 Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks 

Ro.4:17 ...God ...calls things that are not as though they were 

Gen.1:3 God said let their be light and there was light 

Ps.33:9 For He spoke and it came to be; He commanded and it stood firm. 

Mk.11:23 If anyone says to the mountain go throw yourself into the sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen; it will happen.

Prov.18:13 He who answers before listening. That is his folly and shame. 

Ja.1:19 ...everyone should be quick to listen and slow to speak... 

Prov.29:20 Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him. 

Prov.17:27 A man of knowledge uses words with restraint. 

Prov.13:3 He who guards is lips guards his soul, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin. 

Eccl.3:1&7 There is a time for everything... A time to be silent and a time to speak. 

Prov.10:19 When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise. 

Ja.3:2 ...If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. 

I Cor.3:18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age he should become a fool so that he may become wise. 

Obadiah 3 (to Edom) ...the pride of your heart has deceived you. (parenthesis added) 

Matt.11:25 I praise You Father... because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to little children. 

Matt.18:4 ...whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Mk.12:38-40 Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes... and to have the places of honor at banquets... such men will be punished most severely. 

Prov.18:12 Before the downfall a man's heart is proud; but humility comes before honor. 

Prov.11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with humility comes wisdom. 

Jer.50:51 ...I am against you O arrogant one. 

Ps.5:5 The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence. 

Ps.101:5 Whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure. 

Job 37:24 ...He does not have regard for any who think they are wise. 

Prov.8:13 I hate pride and arrogance 

Prov.16:5 The Lord detests all the proud of heart, Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished. 

I Sam.15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination and arrogance is like the evil of idolatry. 

Prov.21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin. 

Lev.26:19 I will break down your stubborn pride. 

Isaiah 2:12 The Lord has a day in store for all the proud and lofty; for all that is exalted and they will be humbled. 

Dan.4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar praise and exalt and glorify the king of heaven... those who walk in pride He is able to humble. 

II Chron.26:16 ...after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. 

Ps.18:27 You save the humble, but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. 

Prov.15:33 ...humility comes before honor 

Ja.4:10 Humble yourself before the Lord, and He will lift you up. 

Ps.145:14 The Lord upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. 

Phil.2:8&9 ...He humbled Himself and became obedient to death... therefore God exalted Him to the highest place. 

II Chron.7:14 ...If My people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 

Ja.4:7 Submit yourselves then to God. 

Micah 6:8 What does the Word require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. 

Isaiah 66:2 This is the one I esteem; He who is humble and contrite in spirit. 

Matt.19:30 Many who are first will be last and many who are last will be first. 

I Pe.5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand that He may lift you up in due season. 

Prov.3:34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. 

II Chron.12:7 Since they have humbled themselves I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. 

Lk.14:11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 

I Ki.3:7 For I am only a child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 

II Chron.6:12-13 ...Solomon ...in front of the whole assembly... knelt down... and spread out his hands toward heaven. 

Matt.21:44 He who falls on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it falls will be crushed. 

Rev.4:10 The twenty four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever. 

Rev.7:11 All the angels... fell down on their faces before the throne. 

Phil.2:110 At the Name of Jesus every knee should bow 

Ro.14:11 Every knee will bow before Me.

I Cor.1:27 God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast. 

I Sam.16:7 The Lord does not look at the things man looks at, the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 

Judges 6:15 (Gideon)... My clan is the weakest in Manassah, and I am the least of my family. (parenthesis added) 

I Sam.9:21 Saul answered, but am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel and not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? 

I Sam.16:11&13 ...are these all the sons you have? "There is still the youngest" Jesse answered, "But he is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him" ...so Samuel ...anointed him ...from that day on the Spirit ...came upon David in power. 

Nu.22:28 Then the Lord opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam... 

Micah 5:2 But you Bethlehem Ephrathah though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for Me one who will rule over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times. 

Matt.13:32 ...kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed... though it is the smallest ...when it grows it is the largest. 

Lk.9:48 For he who is least among you - he is the greatest. 

Matt.13:55 Isn't this the carpenter's son? 

John1:46 Nazareth? Can anything good come from there? Nathaniel asked. 

Eccl.12:13 Keep His commands for this is the whole duty of man... 

II Cor.10:5 ...we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 

Acts 5:32 We are witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him. 

Heb.5:8 Although He was a Son He learned obedience from what He suffered... 

Phil.2:8-9 ...He humbled Himself and became obedient to death... therefore God exalted Him to the highest place. 

I John 2:4 The man who says, "I know Him" but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys His Word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him. Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did. 

Ro.1:5 ...we received grace and apostleship to call God's people from among the gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. 

Heb.11:8 By faith Abraham ...obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going. 

John 9:11 ...He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and then I could see. ( editor's note: healing after obedience) 

II Ki.5:12 Are not... the rivers of Damascus better than any of the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned and went off in a rage. Naaman's servants went to him and said, "Father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing would you not have done it?" ...so he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times as the man of God had told him and his flesh was restored. (editor's note: healing after obedience) 

Mk.3:5 He looked at them in anger and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was completely restored. 

I Sam.15:22 To obey is better than sacrifice. 

Micah 5:15 I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me. 

II Thes.1:8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. 

I Pe.4:17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the Gospel of our God? 

Deut.28:2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God. 

Ja.4:7 Submit yourselves than to God 

Ps.8:13-14 If My people would but listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways how quickly would I subdue their enemies. 

Ro.12:1 Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.

Eph.5:10 ...find out what pleases the Lord 

Heb.11:6 Without faith it is impossible to please God. 

Heb.10:38 My righteous one will live by faith and if he shrinks back I will not be pleased with him. 

Ro.8:8 Those controled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 

I John 2:6 Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did. 

Mk.1:11 You are My Son whom I love, with You I am well pleased. 

Phil.4:18 They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice pleasing to God (editor's note: tithes, gifts etc.) 

Heb.13:16 ...do not forget to do good and to share with others for with such sacrifices God is pleased. 

I Tim.2:1&2 ...requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone... this pleases God. 

Ja.1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure... look after orphans and widows... keep oneself from being polluted by the world. 

I Tim.5:4 ...caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents for this is pleasing to God. 

Prov.15:8 ...the prayer of the upright pleases Him... 

II Chron.1:10 Give me wisdom and knowledge 

I Ki.3:10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this... 

Prov.16:7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord He even makes His enemies live at peace with him. 

Heb.11:5 For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God (editor's note: Enoch was translated into God's presence with out first tasting death) 

Gal.5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. 

Lk.3:9 The ax is already at the root of the tree and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 

Lk.13:6-8 ...for three years now I've been coming to look for fruit... haven't found any. Cut it down. 

Dan.4:14 Cut down the tree and trim off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. 

John 15:8 This is to My Father's glory, that you bear fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples. 

Matt.7:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. 

Lk.6:43 No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 

Eph.5:9 ...for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteous and truth. 

I Thes.5:5 We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 

Eph.5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them. 

John 15:1&2 I am the true vine and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He trims so that it will be even more fruitful. 

Mk.4:19 ...others, like the seed sown among the thorns, hear the Word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the Word, making it unfruitful. 

Gal.6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 

John 15:5 If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit. 

Ja.4:7 Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

I Cor.10:13 ...He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted He will also provide a way out so you can stand under it. 

Eph.4:13 ...Put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything to stand. 

Deut.28:7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. 

I Tim.6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. 

Lk.4:13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left Him until an opportune time. 

Eph.6:12 Our struggle is not against flesh and blood... (editor's note: struggle or wrestle in KJV indicates more than just a onetime occurrence.) 

II Cor.10:3 ...we do not wage war as the world does. (editor's note: war is more than one battle) 

Col.2:1 I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and those in Laodecia (in prayer) (parenthesis added) 

Col.4:12 (Epaphras)... he is always wrestling in prayer for you...(parenthesis added)

Heb.10:14 ...because by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (editor's note - "being made holy" is present progressive in nature. It is an ongoing process) 

II Cor.7:1 ...let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (Rev.19:7 ...bride has made herself ready) 

I Pe.1:15 ...be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy because I am holy." (Lev.11:44-45; Lev.19:2 & Lev.20:7) 

I Thes.4:3 It is God's will that you should be holy. 

Ps.15:1-2 Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on Your holy hill? ...He whose walk is blameless. 

Ps.24:3-4 Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place? ...He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol. 

Isaiah 35:8-10 ...A highway will be there, it will be called the way of holiness. The unclean will not journey on it. 

Heb.12:14 ...without holiness no one will see the Lord. 

Eph.5:26 Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her; top make her holy cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word. (Col.1:22-23 ...to present you holy if you continue in your faith) 

John 17:17 ...sanctify them (make holy) by the truth, Your Word is truth. (parenthesis added) 

John 16:13 ...the Spirit of Truth ...He will guide you into all truth. 

I Pe.1:22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth. (vs.9 ...you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your soul) 

Eph.4:22-23 You were taught... to be made new in the attitude of your minds and to put on the new self created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Col.3:5-10) 

Ro.8:6 The mind of the sinful man is death but the mind controled by the Spirit is life. 

Ro.8:13 ...if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 

Ez.44:16 (pure priests) ...they alone are to enter My sanctuary; they alone are to come near My table and minister before Me and perform My service.(parenthesis added) 

Ez.45:4 It will be a sacred portion ...It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary. 

Ez.48:11-12 This will be for the consecrated priests... it will be a special gift to them... a most holy portion. 

I Pe.2:5 ...you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood. 

I Thes.5:22 Avoid every kind of evil 

Prov.16:6 ...through the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil 

Eph.5:5-7 No immoral, impure, or greedy person... has any inheritance in the kingdom of ...God ...do not be partners with them. 

Matt.5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God 

Ro.13:14 ...do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 

Ps.5:4 you are not a God who takes pleasure in evil, with you the wicked cannot dwell. 

Ja.4:4 Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

I Pe.1:14 ..as obedient children do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 

Rev.2:5 If you do not repent I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. 

II Tim.3:2-7 ...people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. 

II Cor.6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (KJV) 

Phil.3:18-19 Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ... their mind is on earthly things. 

Ro.8:13 If you live according to the sinful nature you will die. 

Prov.11:21 Be sure of this; the wicked will not go unpunished. 

Col.3:5 Put to death therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature... immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed... 

Titus 2:11 Grace of God... teaches us to say "no" to ungodliness and worldly pleasures. 

Prov.4:14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it. 

Eph.4:17 You must no longer live as the gentiles do. 

Ja.1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. 

Matt.12:34 For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. 

Ja.3:10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 

Prov.4:23-24 Above all else, guard your heart for it is the well spring of life. Put away perversity from your mouth keep corrupt talk from your lips. 

Eph.4:25 ...each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor. 

Col.3:9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices... 

Titus 3:2 Remind the people... to slander no one. 

Prov.11:12 A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbors, but a man of understanding holds his tongue. 

Eph.4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs. 

Col.4:6 Let you conversation be always full of grace. 

Eph.5:4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 

Prov.8:7-8 My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness, all the words of my mouth are just. None of them is crooked or perverse. 

II Tim.2:16 Avoid godless chatter because those who indulge in it become more and more ungodly. 

Eph.5:12 ...it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 

I Pe.3:10 Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. 

Ps.12:3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue. 

Prov.12:13 An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk. 

Eccl.10:12 Words from a wise man are gracious but a fool is consumed by his own lips 

Prov.10:31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom but a perverse tongue will be cut out 

Prov.17:20 ...he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble. 

Prov.19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished and he who pours out lies will not go free. 

Prov.11:11 Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted but by the mouth of the wicked is it destroyed. 

Prov.10:21 the lips of the righteous nourish many. 

Ro.12:1 ...offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God which is your spiritual worship. 

I Cor.6:20 You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 

John 4:22 God is Spirit and His worshippers must worship in spirit in truth. 

II Cor.7:1 Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body... 

I Cor.3:16 ...your yourselves are God's temple and God's Spirit lives in you. If anyone destroys God's temple God will destroy Him for God's temple is sacred. 

I Cor.6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All pother sins a man commits are outside his body. But he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 

II Cor.4:7 ...but we have this treasure in earthen vessels... 

II Tim.2:20 In a large house there are vessels not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work. 

Phil.3:19 ...many live as enemies of the cross. Their destiny is destruction their god is their stomach... 

Prov.23:2 ...put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony 

Prov.28:7 ...a companion of gluttons disgraces his father 

Lk.12:29 ...do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink, do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things. 

Heb.12:16 See that no one is sexually immoral or godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights. 

I Cor.8:8 ...food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do. Be careful however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 

I Cor.10:25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience. 

Ro.14:2 One man's faith allows him to eat everything but another whose faith is weak eats... vegetables. 

Acts 10:15 Do not call anything impure that God has made clean 

Matt.15:11 What goes into a man's mouth does not make him unclean 

Mk.7:19 ...in saying this Jesus declared all foods clean. 

I John 3:1 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 

Ro.8:23-24 ...we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies... For in this hope we were saved. 

Lev.18:22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, that is detestable 

Judges 19:22 ...some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house... bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him. 

Ro.1:25-27 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator... because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their woman exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. 

I Cor.6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators, not adulterers, nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 

Ex.20:14 You shall not commit adultery 

Prov.5:1,3,4,8 My son, pay attention to my wisdom... the lips of an adulteress drip honey... but in the end she is bitter as gall... her feet go down to death... keep to a path far from her do not go near the door of her house... 

Mal.3:5 I will be quick to testify against... adulterers. 

Matt.5:27 You hear that it was said, "Do not commit adultery"... 

Prov.6:20,24,26 My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teachings... keeping you from the immoral woman from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife... the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread and the adulteress preys upon your very life. 

Gal.5:19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious... sexual immorality... 

Eph.5:3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality or any kind of impurity... because of these the wrath of God is coming. 

Rev.21:8 ... the sexual immoral, their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. 

Rev.2:21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. 

WHY THIS EMPHASIS ON SEXUAL IMMORALITY? 

I Cor.6:13 The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body... do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ Himself? Shall I take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh" But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. Flee sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?... 

Deut.18:10-12 Let no one be found among you who... practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord ... vs14... the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. 

Lev.19:26 Do not practice divination or sorcery. 

II Ki.21:6 (King Manasseh of Judah) He... practiced sorcery and divination and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.(parenthesis added) 

Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? 

Lev.18:31 Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. 

Deut.19:26 Do not practice divination or sorcery. 

Mal.3:5 I will be quick to testify against sorcerers. 

Rev.21:8 ...those who practice sorcery... their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur (Greek word for sorcery is pharmakeia, from which we get the word 'pharmacy'. Sorcery then is the illicit use of drugs. 

Ex.22:18 Do not allow a sorceress to live. 

Gal.5:20 The acts of the sinful nature are ... witchcraft ...those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

I Sam.15:21 For rebellion is like the sin of divination 

Acts 16:16 ...we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future (Greek word puthon means a 'fortune teller') ...vs18 ...in the Name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her. At that moment the spirit left her (parenthesis added) (editor's note: she was saying that Paul preached a way to salvation; whereas, Jesus is the way to salvation) 

Ps.78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return 

Isaiah 26:14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. 

Eccl.9:3-4 ...and afterward they join the dead... the dead know nothing; they have no further reward. 

Ps.115:17 It is not the dead who praise the Lord, those who go down to silence;... ( editor's note:  these verses refer not to a state of non-existence after death, but to the fact that the dead have no further activity, or relevance to life on earth. As to believers and unbelievers who have died, there are only two alternatives: see following) 

Eccl.12:7 The spirit returns to God who gave it 

Eccl.3:21 (note "c") Who knows the spirit of man, which rises upward, or the spirit of the animal which goes down into the earth. 

Lk.16:22-23 The rich man also died and was buried. IN hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his sided...(emphasis added) 

Matt.10:28 ...be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (ie. spirit returns to God and is in heaven. In unbelievers the soul is being tormented in hell from which there is no escape or release: see following) 

Lk.16:26 (Abraham speaking) ... between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us. (parenthesis added, editor's note: God does not send those who have died to minister unto men: see following) 

Lk.16:31 (Abraham speaking to rich man) "He said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead." (parenthesis added eidtor's note:  Therefore, the "spirits," or voices which are being communicated with us  are not those of our departed friends or relatives, but evil spirits sent by satan to deceive us: see following) 

I Tim.4:1 ...some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 

II Cor.11:14 For satan himself masquerades as an angel of light... his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. ( editor's note: Therefore, communication with what may seem to be a dead person is in reality communication with an evil spirit. God, for our own good, prohibits such actions: see following) 

Lev.20:6 I will set My face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists... 

Deut.18:10-12 Let no one be found among you... who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord. 

Lev.20:27 A man or woman who is a medium or spiritists among you must be put to death. 

II Ki.21:6 (Manasseh - King of Judah) ...he ...consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, provoking Him to anger. (parenthesis added) 

II Ki.23:24 Josiah (a later king of Judah) got rid of the mediums and spiritists... This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law... (parenthesis added) 

Rev.21:8 ...those who practice the magic arts (sorcery, witchcraft, mediums & spiritists - not slight of hand magicians) ... their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur (parenthesis added) 

John 8:44 (Jerusalem Bible) ...(the devil) he was a murder from the start; he was never grounded in the truth; there is no truth in him at all. (parenthesis added - satan will always mislead. he will use half truths and even go so far as to use Scripture out of context such as he did with Jesus in Matt.4:3-11) 

Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists... should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? (editor's note: There are numerous accounts of God sending angels - who never were nor will they ever be men - to actually help or communicate with men see Lk.1:26-38; Lk.1:11 & Judges 6:11 just to name a few. How do you know the difference between an angelic messenger from the Lord and a demonic counterfeit? Simple, no messenger of God will ever conflict with what the Word says on any point - see Gal.1:8 If you are still unsure, see following) 

I John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you recognize the Spirit of God: Every Spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God... 

I Cor.12:3 ...no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed." 

Prov.20:3 It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel 

I Cor.1:10 I appeal to you brother... that there may be no divisions among you. 

Ja.3:16 ...where you have envy and selfish ambition there you find disorder and every evil practice. 

Gal.5:19-20 The acts of the sinful nature are ...dissensions 

Ro.13:13 Let us live decently... not in dissension 

I Cor.12:25 ...there should be no division in the body... its parts should have equal concern for each other. 

Gen.13:8 So Abraham said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me..." 

Prov.16:28 A perverse man stirs up dissension and a gossip separates close friends. 

Prov.10:12 hatred stirs up dissension but love covers all wrongs. 

II Tim.2:24 The Lord's servants must not quarrel 

Prov.17:14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out. 

Ro.16:17 I urge you brothers to watch out for those who cause divisions... keep away from them. 

Prov.22:10 Drive out a mocker, and out goes quarrels and insults are ended. 

Gal.5:15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. 

Titus 3:10 Warn a divisive person once, a second time... after that have nothing to do with him (note: II Thes.3:14 cautions us to do so in love.) 

Prov.6:16&19 There are six things the Lord hates... A man who stirs up dissension among brothers 

Prov.22:24 Do not make friends with a hot tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared. 

Ps.37:8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret - it leads only to evil. 

Eph.4:26 In your anger do not sin, do not let the sun go down while you are still angry and do not give the devil a foothold. 

Prov.29:22 An angry man stirs up dissension and a hot tempered one commits many sins 

Prov.19:19 A hot tempered man must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do it again. 

Ja.1:19 Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. 

Matt.5:22 ...I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment 

Prov.29:11 A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. 

II Tim.1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power and of self control (see Titus 2:11-12 & Gal.5:22) 

Prov.17:27 A man of understanding is even tempered 

Prov.14:29 A patient man has great understanding but a quick tempered man displays folly. 

Col.3:8 But now you must rid yourself of all such things as these; rage, anger, malice... 

Titus 1:7 Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be ...not quick tempered 

I Tim.2:8 I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer without anger or disputing 

Deut.32:35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near. 

Prov.20:22 Do not say, "I'll pay you back for this wrong." Wait for the Lord, He will deliver you. 

Rev.6:10 How long Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? ...they were told to wait a little longer. 

Lk.18:7-8 ...and will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night? ...I tell you He will see that they get justice and quickly. 

Ps.94:3&23 How long will the wicked, O Lord, how long will the wicked be jubilant? ...He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the Lord our God will destroy them. 

Ro.12:17-19 Do not repay anyone evil for evil... do not take revenge, my friends but leave room for God's wrath. 

I Pe.2:3 (false teachers) Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. 

Lev.25:35 If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him ...so he can continue to live among you. Do not take interest of any kind from him but fear your God so that your countryman may continue to live among you. You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit. 

Ez.18:13 He lends at usury and takes excessive interest... will such a man live? he will not! 

Neh.5:6-12 You are exacting usury from your own countrymen... what you are doing is not right... let the extracting of usury stop... 

Hab.2:6 Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion... vs9 woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain. 

Prov.28:8 He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another who will be kind to the poor. 

Ps.15:1&5 Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? ...he ...who lends his money without usury. 

Deut.23:19 Do not charge your brothers interest whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. (editor's note: two Hebrew words used for "interest" 1) neh shech as used in Lev.25:35 & Ps.15:1&5 - it is also translated as "snake bite" in Nu.21:9, Amos 5:19 & Prov.23:32   2) nah shah as used in Neh.5:7; however it is also translated as "beguiled" in Gen.3:13 therefore, interest is associated with both deception and venom.) 

Deut.15:1&3 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts ...you may require repayment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your brother owes you. 

Neh.10:31 ...every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts. 

Matt.5:42 Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. 

Ps.32:25 I have never seen the righteous forsaken... they are always generous and lend freely. 

Lk.6:34-35 ...if you lend to those from whom you expect payment what credit is that to you, even sinners lend to sinners expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. 

Lk.6:30 Give to everyone who asks you and if anyone takes what belongs to you do not demand it back. 

Prov.19:17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and He will reward him for what he has done. 

Prov.11:25 A generous man will prosper, he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. 

Lk.6:29-30 If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic... If anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back...vs35 ...then ...you will be Sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 

Matt.5:39 Do not resist an evil person. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also... If anyone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 

I Cor.6:1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints. 

Ps.1:1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked... 

Prov.12:5 ...the advice of the wicked is deceitful 

I Cor.6:2 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. 

Ps.37:33 The wicked lie in wait for the righteous... but the Lord will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned when brought to trial. 

Prov.22:23 ...do not crush the needy in court for the Lord will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them. 

Prov.20:22 Do not say, "I'll pay you back for this wrong." wait for the Lord and He will deliver you (editor's note: We do not need to rely upon man's system of lawsuits to prevail over evil. God has promised us that He will provide for us. When He does, we save attorney's fees and avoid the delays found in today's legal system. We need to submit to the system which God has placed over us, but we do not need to turn it ourselves for redress of grievances, we turn to the Lord.)