CHARACTER

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• Genesis 6:9

  This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Exodus 8:15

  But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 8:32

  Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

• Exodus 9:34

  When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

• Exodus 14:5

  The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 33:5

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into the middle of you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”

• Deuteronomy 7:6

  For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 14:2

  For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

• Deuteronomy 22:13

  If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;

• Deuteronomy 22:15

  then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

• Deuteronomy 22:16

  The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

• Deuteronomy 22:19

  They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

• Deuteronomy 32:5

  They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

• Deuteronomy 32:6

  Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

• Judges 2:17

  Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

• 1 Kings 3:6

  Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 1 Kings 21:20

  Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Kings 17:17

  They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• 2 Chronicles 11:17

  So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 12:1

  When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammontite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:2

  He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

• Nehemiah 4:8

  and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

• Nehemiah 6:2

  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

• Nehemiah 9:26

  “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Job 24:13

  “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

• Psalms 4:3

  But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

• Psalms 5:5

  The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

• Psalms 5:6

  You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

• Psalms 10:3

  For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

• Psalms 10:4

  The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

• Psalms 10:8

  He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

• Psalms 15:2

  He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

• Psalms 34:2

  My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

• Psalms 35:15

  But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

• Psalms 37:21

  The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

• Psalms 37:26

  All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

• Psalms 38:12

  They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

• Psalms 49:6

  Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —

• Psalms 53:4

  Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

• Psalms 57:7

  My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

• Psalms 58:3

  The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

• Psalms 59:12

  For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

• Psalms 62:4

  They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

• Psalms 69:26

  For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

• Psalms 94:6

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

• Psalms 108:1

  A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

• Psalms 109:16

  because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

• Psalms 112:7

  He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

• Psalms 119:1

  ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

• Proverbs 1:10

  My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

• Proverbs 1:12

  Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

• Proverbs 1:13

  We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.

• Proverbs 1:14

  You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

• Proverbs 2:14

  who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

• Proverbs 11:7

  When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

• Proverbs 13:5

  A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

• Proverbs 16:19

  It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

• Proverbs 16:21

  The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

• Proverbs 16:27

  A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

• Proverbs 16:29

  A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

• Proverbs 21:8

  The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

• Proverbs 22:1

  A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

• Proverbs 24:8

  One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

• Proverbs 24:21

  My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

• Proverbs 24:22

  for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both — who knows?

• Proverbs 27:8

  As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

• Proverbs 28:1

  The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

• Ecclesiastes 7:1

  A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

• Isaiah 1:2

  Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

• Isaiah 3:9

  The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

• Isaiah 26:18

  We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

• Isaiah 29:13

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• Isaiah 29:19

  The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 30:9

  For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

• Isaiah 32:8

  But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

• Isaiah 54:13

  All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

• Isaiah 57:17

  I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

• Isaiah 59:4

  No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

• Isaiah 59:7

  Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.

• Isaiah 60:21

  Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

• Isaiah 64:6

  For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

• Isaiah 66:2

  For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

• Jeremiah 2:36

  Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 13:23

  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

• Ezekiel 2:4

  The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’

• Ezekiel 3:7

  But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

• Ezekiel 20:43

  There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 6:4

  “Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

• Hosea 7:8

  Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

• Hosea 10:2

  Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

• Obadiah 1:3

  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

• Micah 2:2

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

• Micah 7:3

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Habakkuk 2:4

  Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

• Malachi 3:16

  Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

• Matthew 5:3

  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 5:5

  Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

• Matthew 5:7

  Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

• Matthew 5:8

  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

• Matthew 7:17

  Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

• Matthew 8:19

  A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

• Matthew 8:20

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

• Matthew 8:21

  Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Matthew 8:22

  But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

• Matthew 10:22

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Matthew 13:19

  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

• Matthew 13:20

  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Matthew 13:22

  What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

• Matthew 25:30

  Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 4:18

  Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Mark 4:20

  Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

• Luke 1:6

  They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Luke 2:25

  Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

• Luke 6:35

  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

• Luke 8:5

  “The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

• Luke 8:6

  Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

• Luke 8:7

  Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

• Luke 8:8

  Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

• Luke 8:9

  Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”

• Luke 8:10

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 8:11

  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

• Luke 8:12

  Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

• Luke 8:13

  Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 8:15

  That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

• Luke 9:59

  He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Luke 9:60

  But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 9:61

  Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 12:37

  Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

• Luke 22:65

  They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

• John 1:47

  Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

• John 3:20

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• John 10:3

  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

• John 10:4

  Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

• John 10:27

  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

• John 19:22

  Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

• Acts 2:40

  With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

• Acts 2:42

  They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

• Acts 7:51

  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

• Acts 8:2

  Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

• Acts 10:2

  a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

• Acts 20:22

  Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 20:24

  But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

• Acts 21:13

  Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

• Acts 21:14

  When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

• Acts 22:12

  One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 1:31

  without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

• Romans 1:32

  who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

• Romans 3:12

  They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

• Romans 3:13

  “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;

• Romans 8:7

  because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

• Romans 8:14

  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

• Romans 16:19

  For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

• 1 Corinthians 7:20

  Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

• 2 Corinthians 2:17

  For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

  Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

• 2 Corinthians 6:8

  by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

• 2 Corinthians 9:13

  seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

• 2 Corinthians 13:5

  Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.

• Ephesians 2:10

  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

• Ephesians 4:14

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

• Ephesians 4:19

  who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• Ephesians 4:22

  that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

• Philippians 1:19

  For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

• Philippians 2:15

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• Philippians 3:19

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Colossians 1:4

  having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

• Colossians 1:21

  You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

• Colossians 2:5

  For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

• Colossians 3:12

  Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:9

  But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

• 2 Thessalonians 1:8

  giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:15

  So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:3

  But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• 2 Timothy 3:5

  holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

• 2 Timothy 3:6

  For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

• Titus 1:10

  For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

• Titus 1:16

  They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

• Titus 2:14

  who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Hebrews 10:23

  let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

• James 1:6

  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

• James 1:7

  For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

• James 1:8

  He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

• James 1:25

  But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

• James 4:8

  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 2:7

  For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”

• 1 Peter 5:5

  Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

• 2 Peter 2:9

  the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• 1 John 2:27

  As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

• 1 John 3:3

  Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

• Revelation 16:9

  People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

• Revelation 17:14

  These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

• Revelation 21:8

  But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”