Keach’s Catechism

A catechism based on the 1677 Baptist Confession (later the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith), written by Benjamin Keach. This documument largely mirrors the Heidelburg and Westmister catechisms, with the primary deviations being for Baptist particulars. This version follows the later (118 question) text and adapts the language into modern English. Scriptural references are rendered in the English Standard Version.

Question 1

Question: Who is the first and greatest being?

Answer: God is the first and greatest being.

Scriptural References

Isaiah 44:6 (ESV)

⁶Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Psalm 8:1 (ESV)

¹O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

Psalm 97:9 (ESV)

⁹For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

Question 2

Question: What is a person’s central purpose?

Answer: A person’s central purpose is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

Scriptural References

1 Corinthians 10:31 (ESV)

³¹So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Psalm 73:25-26 (ESV)

²⁵Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. ²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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Romans 1:18-20 (ESV)

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ¹⁹For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. ²⁰For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Psalm 19:1-2 (ESV)

¹The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. ²Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

2 Timothy 3:15 (ESV)

¹⁵and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:21-24 (ESV)

²¹For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. ²²For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, ²³but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, ²⁴but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (ESV)

⁹But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— ¹⁰these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

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2 Peter 1:21 (ESV)

²¹For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Isaiah 8:20 (ESV)

²⁰To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

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1 Corinthians 2:6 (ESV)

⁶Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

1 Corinthians 2:7 (ESV)

⁷But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

1 Corinthians 2:13 (ESV)

¹³And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Psalm 119:18 (ESV)

¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Psalm 119:129 (ESV)

¹²⁹Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.

Acts 10:43 (ESV)

⁴³To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 26:22 (ESV)

²²To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:

Acts 18:28 (ESV)

²⁸for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)

¹²For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Psalm 19:7-9 (ESV)

⁷The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; ⁸the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; ⁹the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

Romans 15:4 (ESV)

⁴For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

John 16:13-14 (ESV)

¹³When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

1 John 2:20-27 (ESV)

²⁰But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. ²¹I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²²Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. ²³No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life. ²⁶I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. ²⁷But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

2 Corinthians 3:14-17 (ESV)

¹⁴But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. ¹⁵Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. ¹⁶But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. ¹⁷Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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John 5:39 (ESV)

³⁹You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Luke 16:29 (ESV)

²⁹But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’

Acts 8:28-30 (ESV)

²⁸and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” ³⁰So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Acts 17:11 (ESV)

¹¹Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

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2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

John 20:31 (ESV)

³¹but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Acts 24:14 (ESV)

¹⁴But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

1 Corinthians 10:11 (ESV)

¹¹Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (ESV)

¹³The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

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John 4:24 (ESV)

²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Psalm 147:5 (ESV)

⁵Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Psalm 90:2 (ESV)

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

James 1:17 (ESV)

¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Revelation 4:8 (ESV)

⁸And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

Psalm 89:14 (ESV)

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Exodus 34:6-7 (ESV)

⁶The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, ⁷keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

1 Timothy 1:17 (ESV)

¹⁷To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV)

⁴“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

Jeremiah 10:10 (ESV)

¹⁰But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

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1 Corinthians 8:6 (ESV)

⁶yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

John 10:30 (ESV)

³⁰I and the Father are one.”

John 14:9 (ESV)

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Acts 5:3-4 (ESV)

³But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? ⁴While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

Matthew 28:19 (ESV)

¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

2 Corinthians 13:14 (ESV)

¹⁴The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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Ephesians 1:11 (ESV)

¹¹In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Romans 11:36 (ESV)

³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Daniel 4:35 (ESV)

³⁵all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

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Genesis 1:1 (ESV)

¹In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 4:11 (ESV)

¹¹“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Matthew 6:26 (ESV)

²⁶Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Acts 14:17 (ESV)

¹⁷Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

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Genesis 1:1 (ESV)

¹In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Hebrews 11:3 (ESV)

³By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Exodus 20:11 (ESV)

¹¹For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Genesis 1:31 (ESV)

³¹And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

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Genesis 1:27 (ESV)

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Colossians 3:10 (ESV)

¹⁰and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 4:24 (ESV)

²⁴and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Genesis 1:28 (ESV)

²⁸And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Nehemiah 9:6 (ESV)

⁶ “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.

Colossians 1:17 (ESV)

¹⁷And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Hebrews 1:3 (ESV)

³He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Psalm 103:19 (ESV)

¹⁹The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

Matthew 10:29-30 (ESV)

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. ³⁰But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

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Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Galatians 3:12 (ESV)

¹²But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”

Romans 5:12 (ESV)

¹²Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

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Genesis 3:6 (ESV)

⁶So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 (ESV)

²⁹See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

Romans 5:12 (ESV)

¹²Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

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1 John 3:4 (ESV)

⁴Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Romans 5:13 (ESV)

¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

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Genesis 3:6 (ESV)

⁶So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 3:12 (ESV)

¹²The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 (ESV)

¹³Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

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1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (ESV)

²¹For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. ²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Romans 5:12 (ESV)

¹²Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 5:18 (ESV)

¹⁸Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Romans 5:19 (ESV)

¹⁹For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

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Psalm 51:5 (ESV)

⁵Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Romans 5:18-19 (ESV)

¹⁸Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. ¹⁹For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Isaiah 64:6 (ESV)

⁶We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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Romans 5:19 (ESV)

¹⁹For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Romans 3:10 (ESV)

¹⁰as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Ephesians 2:1 (ESV)

¹And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Isaiah 53:6 (ESV)

⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Psalm 51:5 (ESV)

⁵Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Matthew 15:19 (ESV)

¹⁹For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

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Genesis 3:8-24 (ESV)

⁸And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” ¹¹He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” ¹²The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” ¹³Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” ¹⁴The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. ¹⁵I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” ¹⁶To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.” ¹⁷And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; ¹⁸thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” ²⁰The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. ²¹And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. ²²Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” ²³therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

Ephesians 2:3 (ESV)

³among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Galatians 3:10 (ESV)

¹⁰For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Romans 6:23 (ESV)

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 25:41-46 (ESV)

⁴¹“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴²For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, ⁴³I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ ⁴⁴Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ ⁴⁵Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ ⁴⁶And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Psalm 9:17 (ESV)

¹⁷The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

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Ephesians 1:3-4 (ESV)

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, ⁴even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

2 Thessalonians 2:13 (ESV)

¹³But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Romans 5:21 (ESV)

²¹so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Acts 13:8 (ESV)

⁸But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Jeremiah 31:33 (ESV)

³³For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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Galatians 3:13 (ESV)

¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

1 Timothy 2:5 (ESV)

⁵For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

John 1:14 (ESV)

¹⁴And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)

¹⁶Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Romans 9:5 (ESV)

⁵To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Colossians 2:9 (ESV)

⁹For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

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Hebrews 2:14 (ESV)

¹⁴Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Matthew 26:38 (ESV)

³⁸Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”

Luke 2:52 (ESV)

⁵²And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

John 12:27 (ESV)

²⁷“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.

Luke 1:31-35 (ESV)

³¹And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. ³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, ³³and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” ³⁴And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” ³⁵And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

Hebrews 4:15 (ESV)

¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 7:26 (ESV)

²⁶For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

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Acts 3:22 (ESV)

²²Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.

Hebrews 5:6 (ESV)

⁶as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 2:6 (ESV)

⁶“As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”

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John 1:18 (ESV)

¹⁸No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

John 14:26 (ESV)

²⁶But 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.

John 15:15 (ESV)

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

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1 Peter 2:24 (ESV)

²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Hebrews 9:28 (ESV)

²⁸so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Ephesians 5:2 (ESV)

²And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Hebrews 2:17 (ESV)

¹⁷Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 7:25 (ESV)

²⁵Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Romans 8:34 (ESV)

³⁴Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

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Psalm 110:3 (ESV)

³Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.

Matthew 2:6 (ESV)

⁶“‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”

1 Corinthians 15:25 (ESV)

²⁵For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

Question 31

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Luke 2:7 (ESV)

⁷And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Galatians 4:4 (ESV)

⁴But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Isaiah 53:3 (ESV)

³He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Luke 22:44 (ESV)

⁴⁴And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Matthew 27:46 (ESV)

⁴⁶And 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?”

Philippians 2:8 (ESV)

⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Matthew 12:40 (ESV)

⁴⁰For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Mark 15:45-46 (ESV)

⁴⁵And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. ⁴⁶And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

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1 Corinthians 15:4 (ESV)

⁴that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Acts 1:11 (ESV)

¹¹and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

Mark 16:19 (ESV)

¹⁹So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Acts 17:31 (ESV)

³¹because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Question 33

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John 3:5-6 (ESV)

⁵Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Titus 3:5-6 (ESV)

⁵he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Question 34

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Ephesians 2:8 (ESV)

⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 3:17 (ESV)

¹⁷so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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2 Timothy 1:9 (ESV)

⁹who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

John 16:8-11 (ESV)

⁸And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ¹¹concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Acts 2:37 (ESV)

³⁷Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 26:18 (ESV)

¹⁸to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV)

²⁶And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

John 6:44-45 (ESV)

⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—

1 Corinthians 12:3 (ESV)

³Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

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Romans 8:30 (ESV)

³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Galatians 3:26 (ESV)

²⁶for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

1 Corinthians 6:11 (ESV)

¹¹And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Romans 8:31-32 (ESV)

³¹What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Ephesians 1:5 (ESV)

⁵he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

1 Corinthians 1:30 (ESV)

³⁰And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

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Romans 3:24 (ESV)

²⁴and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 1:7 (ESV)

⁷In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)

²¹For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 5:19 (ESV)

¹⁹For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Philippians 3:9 (ESV)

⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

Galatians 2:16 (ESV)

¹⁶yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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1 John 3:1 (ESV)

¹See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 1:12 (ESV)

¹²But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 8:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

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2 Thessalonians 2:13 (ESV)

¹³But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Ephesians 4:23-24 (ESV)

²³and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Romans 6:11 (ESV)

¹¹So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Romans 5:1-5 (ESV)

¹Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²Through 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. ³Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 14:17 (ESV)

¹⁷For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 4:18 (ESV)

¹⁸But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

1 Peter 1:5 (ESV)

⁵who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John 5:13 (ESV)

¹³I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

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Hebrews 12:23 (ESV)

²³and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Philippians 1:23 (ESV)

²³I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

2 Corinthians 5:8 (ESV)

⁸Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Luke 23:43 (ESV)

⁴³And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

1 Thessalonians 4:14 (ESV)

¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

Isaiah 57:2 (ESV)

²he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

Job 19:26 (ESV)

²⁶And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

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Philippians 3:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

1 Corinthians 15:42-43 (ESV)

⁴²So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. ⁴³It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

Matthew 10:32 (ESV)

³²So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,

1 John 3:2 (ESV)

²Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 (ESV)

¹⁷Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

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Luke 16:22-24 (ESV)

²²The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, ²³and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ²⁴And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’

Psalm 49:14 (ESV)

¹⁴Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

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Daniel 12:2 (ESV)

²And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 5:28-29 (ESV)

²⁸Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 (ESV)

⁹They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Matthew 25:41 (ESV)

⁴¹“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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Micah 6:8 (ESV)

⁸He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (ESV)

¹³The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Psalm 119:4 (ESV)

⁴You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.

Luke 10:26-28 (ESV)

²⁶He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” ²⁷And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

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Romans 2:14-15 (ESV)

¹⁴For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

Romans 5:13-14 (ESV)

¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. ¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

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Deuteronomy 10:4 (ESV)

⁴And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

Matthew 19:17 (ESV)

¹⁷And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

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Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)

³⁶“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Mark 12:28-33 (ESV)

²⁸And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” ²⁹Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” ³²And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. ³³And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Question 49

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Exodus 20:2 (ESV)

²“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Deuteronomy 11:1 (ESV)

¹“You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

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Exodus 20:3 (ESV)

³“You shall have no other gods before me.

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Joshua 24:15 (ESV)

¹⁵And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

1 Chronicles 28:9 (ESV)

⁹“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Deuteronomy 26:17 (ESV)

¹⁷You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.

Psalm 29:2 (ESV)

²Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

Matthew 4:10 (ESV)

¹⁰Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

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Joshua 24:27 (ESV)

²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”

Romans 1:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. ²¹For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Psalm 14:1 (ESV)

¹The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Romans 1:25 (ESV)

²⁵because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

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Deuteronomy 30:17-18 (ESV)

¹⁷But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

Psalm 44:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, ²¹would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 90:8 (ESV)

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

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Exodus 20:4-6 (ESV)

⁴“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. ⁵You 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, ⁶but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Deuteronomy 32:46 (ESV)

⁴⁶he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

Matthew 28:20 (ESV)

²⁰teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Deuteronomy 12:32 (ESV)

³² “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.

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Romans 1:22-23 (ESV)

²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Deuteronomy 4:15-16 (ESV)

¹⁵“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, ¹⁶beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Matthew 15:9 (ESV)

⁹in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Colossians 2:18 (ESV)

¹⁸Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

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Psalm 45:11 (ESV)

¹¹and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.

Exodus 34:14 (ESV)

¹⁴(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

1 Corinthians 10:22 (ESV)

²²Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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Exodus 20:7 (ESV)

⁷“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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Psalm 29:2 (ESV)

²Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

Deuteronomy 32:1-4 (ESV)

¹“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. ²May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. ³For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God! ⁴“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Deuteronomy 28:58-59 (ESV)

⁵⁸“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, ⁵⁹then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

Psalm 111:9 (ESV)

⁹He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!

Matthew 6:9 (ESV)

⁹Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Ecclesiastes 5:1 (ESV)

¹ 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.

Psalm 138:2 (ESV)

²I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Job 36:24 (ESV)

²⁴“Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

Revelation 15:3-4 (ESV)

³And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! ⁴Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Revelation 4:8 (ESV)

⁸And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

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Malachi 1:6-7 (ESV)

⁶“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ ⁷By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised.

Leviticus 20:3 (ESV)

³I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.

Leviticus 19:12 (ESV)

¹²You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Matthew 5:34-37 (ESV)

³⁴But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, ³⁵or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. ³⁶And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. ³⁷Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Isaiah 52:5 (ESV)

⁵Now therefore what have I here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the LORD, “and continually all the day my name is despised.

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Deuteronomy 28:58-59 (ESV)

⁵⁸“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, ⁵⁹then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

Malachi 2:2 (ESV)

²If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

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Exodus 20:8-11 (ESV)

⁸“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, ¹⁰but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. ¹¹For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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Leviticus 19:30 (ESV)

³⁰You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 5:12 (ESV)

¹²“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

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Genesis 2:3 (ESV)

³So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

John 20:19 (ESV)

¹⁹On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Acts 20:7 (ESV)

⁷On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 (ESV)

¹Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. ²On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Revelation 1:10 (ESV)

¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

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Leviticus 23:3 (ESV)

³“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places.

Isaiah 58:13-14 (ESV)

¹³“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; ¹⁴then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Isaiah 66:23 (ESV)

²³From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD.

Matthew 12:11-12 (ESV)

¹¹He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹²Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

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Ezekiel 22:26 (ESV)

²⁶Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 23:38 (ESV)

³⁸Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

Jeremiah 17:21 (ESV)

²¹Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:15-17 (ESV)

¹⁵In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. ¹⁶Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! ¹⁷Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?

Acts 20:7 (ESV)

⁷On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

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Exodus 34:21 (ESV)

²¹“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Exodus 31:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. ¹⁷It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

Genesis 2:2-3 (ESV)

²And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

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Exodus 20:12 (ESV)

¹²“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Leviticus 19:32 (ESV)

³²“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

1 Peter 2:17 (ESV)

¹⁷Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Romans 13:1 (ESV)

¹Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Ephesians 5:21-22 (ESV)

²¹submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. ²²Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1 (ESV)

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:5 (ESV)

⁵Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

Ephesians 6:9 (ESV)

⁹Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Colossians 3:19-22 (ESV)

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. ²⁰Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. ²²Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Romans 12:10 (ESV)

¹⁰Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

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Proverbs 30:17 (ESV)

¹⁷The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Romans 13:7-8 (ESV)

⁷Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. ⁸Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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Ephesians 6:2-3 (ESV)

²“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), ³“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Proverbs 4:3-6 (ESV)

³When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, ⁴he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. ⁵Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ⁶Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Proverbs 6:20-22 (ESV)

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. ²¹Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. ²²When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

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Exodus 20:13 (ESV)

¹³“You shall not murder.

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Ephesians 5:29-30 (ESV)

²⁹For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰because we are members of his body.

Psalm 82:3-4 (ESV)

³Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. ⁴Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Proverbs 24:11-12 (ESV)

¹¹Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. ¹²If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Acts 16:28 (ESV)

²⁸But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”

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Genesis 4:10-11 (ESV)

¹⁰And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. ¹¹And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 9:6 (ESV)

⁶“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Matthew 5:21-26 (ESV)

²¹“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ ²²But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. ²³So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, ²⁴leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. ²⁵Come 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. ²⁶Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

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Exodus 20:14 (ESV)

¹⁴“You shall not commit adultery.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 (ESV)

¹⁸Flee 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 7:2 (ESV)

²But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

2 Timothy 2:22 (ESV)

²²So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Matthew 5:28 (ESV)

²⁸But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Peter 3:2 (ESV)

²when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

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Matthew 5:28-32 (ESV)

²⁸But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. ³⁰And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. ³¹“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ ³²But 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.

Job 31:1 (ESV)

¹“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

Ephesians 5:3-4 (ESV)

³But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. ⁴Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Romans 13:13 (ESV)

¹³Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Colossians 4:6 (ESV)

⁶Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

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Exodus 20:15 (ESV)

¹⁵“You shall not steal.

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Proverbs 27:23 (ESV)

²³Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

Leviticus 25:35 (ESV)

³⁵“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Deuteronomy 15:10 (ESV)

¹⁰You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 22:14 (ESV)

¹⁴and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’

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1 Timothy 5:8 (ESV)

⁸But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Proverbs 28:19 (ESV)

¹⁹Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Proverbs 23:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, ²¹for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Ephesians 4:28 (ESV)

²⁸Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

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Exodus 20:16 (ESV)

¹⁶“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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Zechariah 8:16 (ESV)

¹⁶These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Acts 25:10 (ESV)

¹⁰But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 (ESV)

¹A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

3 John 12 (ESV)

¹²Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.

Proverbs 14:5-25 (ESV)

⁵A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ⁶A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. ⁷Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. ⁸The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving. ⁹Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance. ¹⁰The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy. ¹¹The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. ¹²There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. ¹³Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief. ¹⁴The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways. ¹⁵The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps. ¹⁶One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. ¹⁷A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. ¹⁸The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. ¹⁹The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. ²⁰The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. ²¹Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. ²²Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness. ²³In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. ²⁴The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly. ²⁵A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

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Ephesians 4:25 (ESV)

²⁵Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Psalm 15:3 (ESV)

³who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

2 Corinthians 8:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us, ²¹for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of man.

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Exodus 20:17 (ESV)

¹⁷“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.”

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Hebrews 13:5 (ESV)

⁵Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Timothy 6:6 (ESV)

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain,

Romans 12:15 (ESV)

¹⁵Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)

⁴Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Leviticus 19:18 (ESV)

¹⁸You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

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1 Corinthians 10:10 (ESV)

¹⁰nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

James 5:9 (ESV)

⁹Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

Galatians 5:26 (ESV)

²⁶Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Colossians 3:5 (ESV)

⁵Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Ecclesiastes 7:20 (ESV)

²⁰Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Genesis 6:5 (ESV)

⁵The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21 (ESV)

²¹And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

1 John 1:8 (ESV)

⁸If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

James 3:8 (ESV)

⁸but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

James 3:2 (ESV)

²For 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.

Romans 3:23 (ESV)

²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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Psalm 19:7-11 (ESV)

⁷The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; ⁸the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; ⁹the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. ¹⁰More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. ¹¹Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Romans 3:20-31 (ESV)

²⁰For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. ²¹But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— ²²the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: ²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ²⁶It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. ²⁷Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. ²⁸For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. ²⁹Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. ³¹Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Romans 7:7 (ESV)

⁷What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 12:2 (ESV)

²Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Titus 2:12-14 (ESV)

¹²training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, ¹³waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, ¹⁴who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Galatians 3:22-24 (ESV)

²²But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. ²⁴So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

1 Timothy 1:8 (ESV)

⁸Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

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Ezekiel 8:13 (ESV)

¹³He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

John 19:11 (ESV)

¹¹Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

1 John 5:16 (ESV)

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.

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Ephesians 5:6 (ESV)

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Galatians 3:10 (ESV)

¹⁰For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Proverbs 3:33 (ESV)

³³The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Psalm 11:6 (ESV)

⁶Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Revelation 21:8 (ESV)

⁸But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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Acts 20:21 (ESV)

²¹testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 16:30-31 (ESV)

³⁰Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” ³¹And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 17:30 (ESV)

³⁰The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

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Hebrews 10:39 (ESV)

³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

John 1:12 (ESV)

¹²But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Philemon 3-9 (ESV)

³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, ⁵because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, ⁶and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. ⁷For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you. ⁸Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, ⁹yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Galatians 2:15-16 (ESV)

¹⁵We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; ¹⁶yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

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Acts 2:37 (ESV)

³⁷Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Joel 2:13 (ESV)

¹³and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Jeremiah 31:18-19 (ESV)

¹⁸I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God. ¹⁹For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (ESV)

¹⁰For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. ¹¹For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Romans 6:18 (ESV)

¹⁸and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

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Romans 10:17 (ESV)

¹⁷So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

James 1:18 (ESV)

¹⁸Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

1 Corinthians 3:5 (ESV)

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.

Acts 14:1 (ESV)

¹Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

Acts 2:41-42 (ESV)

⁴¹So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. ⁴²And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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Psalm 119:11-18 (ESV)

¹¹I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. ¹²Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! ¹³With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. ¹⁴In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. ¹⁵I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. ¹⁶I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. ¹⁷Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. ¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 (ESV)

⁶And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 2:1-2 (ESV)

¹So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. ²Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Romans 1:16 (ESV)

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Psalm 19:7 (ESV)

⁷The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

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Proverbs 8:34 (ESV)

³⁴Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

1 Peter 2:1-2 (ESV)

¹So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. ²Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

1 Timothy 4:13 (ESV)

¹³Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Hebrews 2:1-3 (ESV)

¹Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. ²For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, ³how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

Hebrews 4:2 (ESV)

²For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 (ESV)

¹⁰and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Psalm 119:11 (ESV)

¹¹I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

James 1:21-25 (ESV)

²¹Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. ²²But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

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1 Peter 3:21 (ESV)

²¹Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (ESV)

⁶I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. ⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 12:13 (ESV)

¹³For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

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Matthew 28:19 (ESV)

¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 22:16 (ESV)

¹⁶And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Matthew 26:26-28 (ESV)

²⁶Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” ²⁷And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, ²⁸for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Romans 6:4 (ESV)

⁴We 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.

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Matthew 28:19 (ESV)

¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 6:3-5 (ESV)

³Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We 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. ⁵For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Colossians 2:12 (ESV)

¹²having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Galatians 3:27 (ESV)

²⁷For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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Acts 2:38 (ESV)

³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 3:6 (ESV)

⁶and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 16:16 (ESV)

¹⁶Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Acts 8:12-36 (ESV)

¹²But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. ¹³Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. ¹⁴Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, ¹⁵who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, ¹⁶for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” ²⁰But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! ²¹You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. ²²Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” ²⁴And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.” ²⁵Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. ²⁶Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. ²⁷And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship ²⁸and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” ³⁰So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ³¹And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. ³²Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. ³³In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.” ³⁴And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” ³⁵Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. ³⁶And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Acts 10:47-48 (ESV)

⁴⁷“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” ⁴⁸And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

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Matthew 3:16 (ESV)

¹⁶And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

John 3:23 (ESV)

²³John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

Acts 8:38-39 (ESV)

³⁸And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.

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Acts 2:46-47 (ESV)

⁴⁶And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, ⁴⁷praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 9:26 (ESV)

²⁶And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.

1 Peter 2:5 (ESV)

⁵you 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.

Hebrews 10:25 (ESV)

²⁵not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Romans 16:5 (ESV)

⁵Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.

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Acts 2:42 (ESV)

⁴²And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Acts 20:7 (ESV)

⁷On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Acts 7:38 (ESV)

³⁸This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.

Ephesians 4:11-12 (ESV)

¹¹And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, ¹²to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

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Ephesians 1:10 (ESV)

¹⁰as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Ephesians 1:22-23 (ESV)

²²And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, ²³which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

John 10:16 (ESV)

¹⁶And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

John 11:52 (ESV)

⁵²and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

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1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (ESV)

²³For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, ²⁴and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁵In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” ²⁶For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 10:16 (ESV)

¹⁶The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

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1 Corinthians 11:27-31 (ESV)

²⁷Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. ³⁰That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. ³¹But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

1 Corinthians 5:8 (ESV)

⁸Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV)

⁵Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

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1 John 5:14 (ESV)

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 1:9 (ESV)

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philippians 4:6 (ESV)

⁶do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Psalm 10:17 (ESV)

¹⁷O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

Psalm 145:19 (ESV)

¹⁹He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

John 14:13-14 (ESV)

¹³Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

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Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV)

⁹Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. ¹⁰Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ¹¹Give us this day our daily bread, ¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)

¹⁶All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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Matthew 6:9 (ESV)

⁹Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Luke 11:13 (ESV)

¹³If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Romans 8:15 (ESV)

¹⁵For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Acts 12:5 (ESV)

⁵So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

1 Timothy 2:1-3 (ESV)

¹First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, ²for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. ³This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

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Matthew 6:9 (ESV)

⁹Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Psalm 67:1-3 (ESV)

¹May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, ²that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. ³Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!

Romans 11:36 (ESV)

³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Revelation 4:11 (ESV)

¹¹“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

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Matthew 6:10 (ESV)

¹⁰Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Psalm 68:1-18 (ESV)

¹God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him! ²As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God! ³But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy! ⁴Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him! ⁵Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. ⁶God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. ⁷O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, ⁸the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. ⁹Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished; ¹⁰your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy. ¹¹The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host: ¹²“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil— ¹³though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold. ¹⁴When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon. ¹⁵O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan! ¹⁶Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever? ¹⁷The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary. ¹⁸You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

Romans 10:1 (ESV)

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

2 Thessalonians 3:1 (ESV)

¹Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,

Matthew 9:37-38 (ESV)

³⁷Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; ³⁸therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Revelation 22:20 (ESV)

²⁰He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

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Matthew 6:10 (ESV)

¹⁰Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Psalm 103:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! ²¹Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!

Psalm 25:4-5 (ESV)

⁴Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. ⁵Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Psalm 119:26 (ESV)

²⁶When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!

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Matthew 6:11 (ESV)

¹¹Give us this day our daily bread,

Proverbs 30:8-9 (ESV)

⁸Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, ⁹lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 (ESV)

⁶But godliness with contentment is great gain, ⁷for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. ⁸But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

1 Timothy 4:4-5 (ESV)

⁴For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

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Matthew 6:12 (ESV)

¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Psalm 51:1 (ESV)

¹Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:3 (ESV)

³For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 51:7 (ESV)

⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Mark 11:25 (ESV)

²⁵And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Matthew 18:35 (ESV)

³⁵So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”

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Matthew 6:13 (ESV)

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Matthew 26:41 (ESV)

⁴¹Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Psalm 19:13 (ESV)

¹³Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (ESV)

¹³No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 17:15 (ESV)

¹⁵I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

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Matthew 6:13 (ESV)

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Daniel 9:18-19 (ESV)

¹⁸O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. ¹⁹O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

1 Chronicles 29:11-13 (ESV)

¹¹Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. ¹²Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. ¹³And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

1 Corinthians 14:16 (ESV)

¹⁶Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

Philippians 4:6 (ESV)

⁶do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Revelation 22:20 (ESV)

²⁰He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!