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Monthly Archives: November 2013
For I know the plans I have for you.. Jeremiah 29:11
What does the bible say about Strife..
“A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.” Proverbs 16:28 (ESV)
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth… 2 Timothy 2:23-25 (ESV)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12 ESV
“Learning To Lean” Willie Norwood –
Greetings to all of our WIFI Subscribers, family and friend’s! I pray you all will reap a harvest in this great month of November… Please know that we are praying for you!
Let’s get down to business because I have a lot on my mind, and the subject we will discuss on today is discord… Please feel free to comment and weigh in…
It’s bad when a parent sow discord between children causing animosity and friction because people tend to have favorites this, and favorites that which is o.k, but when it comes to your children that God gave to you, they all should be your favorites because they are ALL gifts from God. It saddens me that a parent would choose to raise one child, and leave the other child to survive on it’s own… Let me tell you that it’s happening because it happened to me, and I was that child that did not meet my father until I was 10-years-old, and I met him by divine appointment that was set up by God! Nevertheless, we finally met!
Since that time, our relationship started out a little rocky being that I was 10-years-old and I possessed my own identity. I knew what felt right to my heart, and I knew what felt wrong. When I was younger, I was always uncomfortable around him, his wife at the time and his daughter… Nevertheless, they all grew on me over the years, and I developed a relationship with her mom which had to be developed if she was going to consider my little sister coming to spend the summer with me when she was younger. We developed a beautiful relationship over these past 37 years… Nevertheless, I pray one day she realizes that family is way more important than money and being someone’s favorite!
With that being said, let’s examine in God’s word what he says about sowing discord. I have shared over 150 scriptures and studied them to see if I can shed some light on my life to make it better that I can continue to LOVE and move forward in Christ!
Sowing discord can mean a lot of things, such as:
-Spreading gossip
-Starting rumours
-Talking behind other people`s back
-Lying
Although a “self-centered and clingy personality“ could be the cause of discord, just being such a person wouldn`t automatically mean they are a “sower of discord!“
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T: 11/5/2013
189 Bible Verses about Strife:
James 3:14-16 ESV / 107 helpful votes
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 85 helpful votes
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 79 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 79 helpful votes
For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.
Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 69 helpful votes
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
Titus 3:1-3 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Mark 3:24 ESV / 55 helpful votes
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 54 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes
A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
James 4:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Romans 2:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
1 Timothy 1:5-7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
Romans 16:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
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Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.
Romans 14:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Galatians 5:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Proverbs 26:21 ESV / 26 helpful votes
As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes
A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.
Deuteronomy 1:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
Romans 14:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:2-3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Mark 3:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
Isaiah 41:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
Romans 12:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Matthew 10:34-36 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.
1 Corinthians 11:16-19 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
1 Corinthians 6:1-7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …
Matthew 5:39-41 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
Isaiah 58:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
Proverbs 18:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Philippians 2:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
Psalm 31:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
Matthew 5:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
Romans 16:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Romans 13:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Mark 9:34 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.
Matthew 12:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
Isaiah 41:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
2 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
1 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Luke 12:58 ESV / 15 helpful votes
As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
Philippians 1:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
Habakkuk 1:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
Proverbs 25:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?
James 5:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
James 4:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Luke 11:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.
Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Psalm 55:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
Romans 14:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Luke 22:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Proverbs 6:12-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1 Corinthians 11:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 1:10-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
Acts 15:39 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Psalm 37:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalm 37:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.
James 3:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
Titus 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Acts 15:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Genesis 45:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”
1 John 4:16 ESV / 7 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.
James 4:1-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …
James 4:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
James 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. …
Romans 1:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
Acts 15:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
Acts 8:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
Proverbs 23:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Psalm 80:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalm 37:30-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.
Genesis 13:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
James 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …
James 1:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
James 1:4-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. …
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
Philippians 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Galatians 5:19-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
Romans 1:29-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Proverbs 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
By his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. …
Psalm 34:12-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Psalm 34:11-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, …
Genesis 31:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
Genesis 26:20-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 13:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 Timothy 6:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
1 Thessalonians 4:10-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Philippians 1:15-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Galatians 5:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. …
1 Corinthians 11:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
1 Corinthians 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?
1 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
1 Corinthians 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. …
Acts 23:7-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?” And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks.
John 10:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Luke 12:59 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”
Luke 12:51-53 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.
Proverbs 23:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Proverbs 11:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.
Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Proverbs 3:33-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
Proverbs 3:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,
Proverbs 3:30-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm. Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence. The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. …
Proverbs 3:30-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm. Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Proverbs 3:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
Psalm 141:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!
Psalm 140:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet. The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah …
Psalm 133:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Job 22:23-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Job 11:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
2 Samuel 19:41-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?” All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?” And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”
Judges 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.
Judges 12:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.” And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand. And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?” Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.” And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,” …
Judges 11:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
Genesis 21:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
Genesis 13:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
Hebrews 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
Philippians 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
2 Chronicles 33:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Nahum 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Cited: Scriptures are from Open Bible: http://www.openbible.info/topics/strife
Rejoice in the Lord always…
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.. Galatians 5:22 (ESV)
Joy
Romans 12:12 ESV / 354 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Philippians 4:4 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
James 1:2 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 211 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Romans 15:13 ESV / 194 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
John 16:24 ESV / 151 helpful votes
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Romans 14:17 ESV / 105 helpful votes
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 16:9 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.
John 16:22 ESV / 95 helpful votes
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Rejoice always,
James 1:2-4 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
1 Thessalonians 2:20 ESV / 72 helpful votes
For you are our glory and joy.
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 67 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 66 helpful votes
I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 62 helpful votes
The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
Luke 15:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
1 John 1:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes
And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 47 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.
Colossians 1:11 ESV / 46 helpful votes
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
Psalm 4:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
Psalm 33:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.
Psalm 30:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
Romans 5:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Again I Say Rejoice ~
Israel Houghton-
Romans 15:32 ESV / 40 helpful votes
So that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
2 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
Psalm 150:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Nehemiah 8:9-18 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. …
Psalm 126:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
John 16:33 ESV / 33 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Psalm 100:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Psalm 71:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes
My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
Jude 1:24 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
Psalm 16:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Ezra 6:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
John 17:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Luke 1:47 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
Matthew 2:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Acts 2:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
John 15:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Acts 13:52 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Nehemiah 12:43 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.
Psalm 70:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”
Psalm 19:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
Acts 16:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
Psalm 126:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Philippians 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
Psalm 97:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 104:34 ESV / 14 helpful votes
May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
Philippians 1:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
Proverbs 19:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.
Psalm 119:165 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Psalm 105:43 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.
Psalm 100:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
Psalm 30:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Philemon 1:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Matthew 25:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Zechariah 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 30:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Psalm 119:111 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Psalm 105:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
2 John 1:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
Romans 5:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Acts 20:22-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 8:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
So there was much joy in that city.
Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Ecclesiastes 8:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
Psalm 5:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
Job 8:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
1 Chronicles 16:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.
2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Isaiah 12:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. …
Psalm 132:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.
Psalm 69:32 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
Psalm 42:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
2 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
Acts 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
Psalm 138:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord.
Psalm 51:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Psalm 13:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
Job 22:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
Hebrews 1:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 8 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.
Jeremiah 32:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
Ecclesiastes 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
Proverbs 14:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
Proverbs 13:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Psalm 21:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
3 John 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Jeremiah 31:1-40 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit. …
Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 44:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
Psalm 97:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!
Psalm 64:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!
Psalm 51:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalm 43:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
Psalm 35:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord, exulting in his salvation.
Psalm 30:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Psalm 14:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Ezra 6:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
2 Corinthians 7:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
Acts 16:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
Luke 1:46-56 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. …
Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
Habakkuk 3:16-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Jeremiah 31:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
Isaiah 52:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.
Psalm 149:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!
Psalm 32:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Psalm 16:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalm 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Nehemiah 8:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
2 Chronicles 30:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 29:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.
2 Chronicles 29:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.
2 Chronicles 15:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest all around.
2 Chronicles 15:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.
2 Chronicles 7:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
1 Chronicles 13:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,
Luke 15:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 15:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
Luke 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
Mark 11:8-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”
Isaiah 61:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.
Isaiah 35:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Proverbs 28:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.
Psalm 119:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
Psalm 68:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!
Psalm 45:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.
Psalm 40:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
Psalm 37:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.
Psalm 36:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Psalm 32:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalm 16:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
Psalm 9:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
That I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.
Job 38:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 33:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
Job 22:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
2 Chronicles 30:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 15:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
1 Chronicles 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.
1 Chronicles 12:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.
1 Samuel 18:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
1 Samuel 2:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. “There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. …
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
1 Corinthians 16:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men.
Romans 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
Acts 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.
Acts 11:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,
Acts 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
John 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
Luke 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
Matthew 18:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
Jeremiah 33:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
Isaiah 56:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 35:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
Isaiah 16:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 4 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 theLord, 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. …
Ecclesiastes 7:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
Psalm 149:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.
Psalm 110:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Psalm 89:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.
Psalm 51:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalm 46:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
Psalm 35:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Esther 8:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.
Esther 8:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
2 Chronicles 30:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.
2 Chronicles 23:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.
2 Chronicles 23:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the Lord under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
1 Samuel 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
Luke 1:67-79 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; …
Isaiah 35:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
Psalm 119:55 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.
Psalm 9:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T: 11/4/2013
Cited: Scriptures are from open bible: http://www.openbible.info/topics/joy
Help us to believe, Oh God!
“For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.” ~Deuteronomy 10:17 (ESV)
“But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”~ Job 2:10 (ESV)
Father God, you are an awesome God, and your name is greatly to be praised. You gave us life, and all that flourishes around us; you alone created the heavens and the earth, giving us Jesus-the light. Forgive us our ways, Father God, as we lose track of that light, falling into moments of darkness in which we experience loneliness. Without your Son, Our Savior, life is indeed lonely and empty. Often we want to find answers to those things we simply don’t understand; however, many times the things that we don’t understand-we have to believe in faith. Father God and Heavenly Creator, we breathe the air of life; we don’t see it, but we believe. We don’t see the circulating and refreshing wind, but we believe in its existence-and we believe in you-Our Father, Our Creator, Our Life.
Help us, Father, as we turn our life to you, as we leave the darkness behind for the precious and amazing light-to grow in faith, knowing that you are indeed an awesome God. Help us to continuously realize that even when we face moments of trial and temptation, that the light is still there with us; just like a nightly sky, where we don’t physically see the sun, but believe in the light just by looking up at the stars that are illuminated by the sun. Help us to always look up, to look forward-not backward and to always realize and remember that, Yes, you are and awesome God.
AWESOME GOD!
Awesome God!
1 John 2:1-29 (ESV)
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …
Numbers 23:19 (ESV)
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Isaiah 45:7 (ESV)
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
1 Peter 2:1-25 (ESV)
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …
1 John 1:9 (ESV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 (ESV)
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …
John 14:26 (ESV)
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
2 Chronicles 19:7 (ESV)
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”
2 Peter 1:17 (ESV)
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 (ESV)
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …
Psalm 92:15 (ESV)
To declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
“Don’t try to make it without Jesus” ~
Pastor Thomas H. Lambert, Morning Star M.B.C, LB,CA
James 3:1-18 (ESV)
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 (ESV)
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …
John 3:1-36 (ESV)
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. …
Ruth 1:1-22 (ESV)
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …
Acts 2:4-8 (ESV)
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
Colossians 1:1-29 (ESV)
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 (ESV)
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …
Psalm 22:1-31 (ESV)
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …
Psalm 5:4 (ESV)
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
2 Kings 1:1-18 (ESV)
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …
Deuteronomy 32:4 (ESV)
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Genesis 1:21 (ESV)
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
James 1:13 (ESV)
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Titus 1:2 (ESV)
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Romans 13:4 (ESV)
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 8:28 (ESV)
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 (ESV)
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Job 36:5 (ESV)
“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.
Nehemiah 9:6 (ESV)
“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
1 Samuel 15:29 (ESV)
And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”
Deuteronomy 4:31 (ESV)
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Genesis 2:7 (ESV)
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
James 1:1-27 (ESV)
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …
2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Galatians 3:28 (ESV)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)
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.
Romans 1:1-32 (ESV)
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …
Matthew 27:46 (ESV)
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Amos 3:6 (ESV)
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
Ezekiel 6:11 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord God: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
Lamentations 3:39 (ESV)
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:38 (ESV)
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
Lamentations 3:33-36 (ESV)
For he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.
Jeremiah 2:5 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
Psalm 51:1-19 (ESV)
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …
1 Chronicles 2:1-55 (ESV)
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. …
2 Samuel 1:1-27 (ESV)
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Cited: Scriptures are from: open bible: http://www.openbible.info/topics/awesome_god