1 John 4:8 ESV / 195 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 103 helpful votes
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 94 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
John 3:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 65 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:9-12 ESV / 64 helpful votes
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 42 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 15:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 33 helpful votes
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Psalm 36:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
Luke 12:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Psalm 103:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
Psalm 26:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes
The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Revelation 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
John 13:34 ESV / 17 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 16 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 15:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
1 John 4:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
John 13:1-38 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Isaiah 1:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
John 1:3-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Malachi 3:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Isaiah 40:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
Psalm 103:11-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalm 11:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
Ephesians 3:12-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
John 13:3-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Deuteronomy 7:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
Philippians 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Galatians 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Mark 11:1-16:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
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Isaiah 54:1-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities. “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Psalm 91:14-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Psalm 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
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How to Be Born AgainKnow the mystery of God: namely, Jesus Christ [the anointed], in whom is hidden all the treasures of wisdom(Colossians 2:3)[1]So, be born again as a Christian,but what does that mean"What good will it do for a man if he gains the whole world, yet [forfeits] his soul? Or, what can a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26)[2]To many, being Christian is simply"admire Jesus" and probably"go to church," but that isnotit according to the Bible.
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*SHOCKING!!! MUST READ*
A “Witch” crash-landed while attempting to fly over a church somewhere in Lagos state. It is reported that the witch (in picture) has been fighting against the church and told the Pastor that either of them will die to see who has the greatest power.
This morning, it was shocking when a few church members that came for prayers saw the dead witch with a human hand in her mouth and a club in her hand which they use to fly at night.
>>Now I Declare, Any witch that challenges U MUST die IN JESUS CHRIST Mighty Name, . Please write AMEN, Don't Ignore.
Wisdom Words from Scripture
Job 12:12 Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old. (NLT)
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Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." (NLT)
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Beyond Sunday: How Paul Preached
[Editor's note: Beyond Sunday is a Monday refresher to carry you through the week.]
Focus Verse of the Week
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (1 Corinthian 2:4-5)
Classic Commentary
And my speech, and my preaching As he determined, so he acted. The subject matter of his ministry was not any of the liberal arts and sciences, or the philosophy and dry morality of the Gentiles, but salvation by a crucified Christ. His style, his diction, his language followed this in his preaching,
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom; with technical words, words of art, contrived by human wisdom to captivate the affections. Nor did Paul come with bare probable arguments only, a show of reason to persuade the mind to an assent, when nothing solid and substantial is advanced, only a run of words artfully put together, without any strength of argument in them. This is a method used by the false teachers, and which the apostle here strikes at and tacitly condemns.
but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power; partly by making use of solid proofs out of the writings of the Old Testament, indited by the Spirit of God, and which amounted to a demonstration of the truths he delivered. He also conveyed this partly by signs, and wonders, and miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, those extraordinary instances of divine power, which greatly confirmed the doctrines he preached. Besides all these, the Spirit of God wonderfully assisted him in his work, both as to words and matter; directing him, what to say, and in what form, in words, not which human wisdom taught, but which the Holy Ghost taught. The Holy Spirit accompanied his ministry with his power, to the conversion, comfort, edification, and salvation of many.
That your faith should not stand "Or be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God". The Spirit of God directed Paul, and he under the Spirit's influence chose, and by his assistance pursued this way of preaching. He pursued it with this view, and for this reason, that faith in Christ and in the doctrines of his Gospel, which comes by hearing, might not be attributed to the force of human eloquence and oratory. Thus faith would not stand upon so sandy a foundation that it might be puffed away by a superior flow and force of words. Rather that it might be ascribed, as it ought to be, to almighty power, stand in it, be supported by it, and at last be finished and fulfilled with it.
(Adapted from john gill's exposition of the bible, 1 corinthians 2:4.)
A Thought to Keep
Where does the power to change a heart of stone to flesh come from? From our words and witness or the Holy Spirit?
Monday, February 17, 2014
Daily Bible Reading from BibleStudyTools.com February 17, 2014 - King James Version
Continue ReadingDaily Bible Reading from BibleStudyTools.com February 12, 2014 - King James Version Hebrews 9:1-22 1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle made ; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread ; which is called the sanctuary. 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all ; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
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