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Romans 12:2

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

1 Corinthians 6:12

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Mark 4:24

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

Romans 14:1–23

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:1–33

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Psalms 150:1–6

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

Psalms 14:1–7

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Proverbs 11:12

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Proverbs 20:11

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Ephesians 4:30

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Psalms 101:1–8

I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:1–32

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Daniel 3:1–4:37

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 14:1–40

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Psalms 96:1–13

Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. — read the full passage →

Acts 27:24–31

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ — read the full passage →

Proverbs 17:1–18:24

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

Psalms 28:1–9

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

John 4:17–48

The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 7:10–26

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Ephesians 2:1–22

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Psalms 87:1–7

His foundation is in the holy mountains. — read the full passage →

Psalms 70:1–5

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Psalms 62:1–12

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 9:1–27

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

3 John 1:9–11

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 4:27

neither give place to the devil.

Ecclesiastes 12:1–14

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 2:1–3:22

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:1–24:34

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

Psalms 45:1–17

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. — read the full passage →

Psalms 39:1–13

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” — read the full passage →

Galatians 6:3–4

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 25:23–27:6

The north wind produces rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 2:11–4:18

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes. — read the full passage →

Acts 2:38–40

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Luke 15:11–32

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 65:5–6

who say, Stand by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 57:4–17

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 47:1–48:22

“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 25:1–26:21

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Psalms 150:1

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

Psalms 71:23

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

Psalms 68:25

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

Ezra 3:10

When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Leviticus 22:25

Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

Revelation 16:13–18:24

I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; — read the full passage →

Revelation 2:20–3:17

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 10:26–12:17

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

John 12:43

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

John 12:6–27

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. — read the full passage →

Luke 14:11–26

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” — read the full passage →

Mark 16:1–20

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

Zechariah 10:3–13:9

My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle. — read the full passage →

Amos 8:10–9:8

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day. — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 27:1–36

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 2:1–3:27

He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 9:14–24

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; — read the full passage →

Isaiah 33:14–35:10

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning? — read the full passage →

Isaiah 8:1–22

Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; — read the full passage →

1 Chronicles 15:1–16:43

David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. — read the full passage →

2 Kings 8:1–9:37

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years.” — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 30:12–19

They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 13:14–16:23

But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.” — read the full passage →

Leviticus 4:22–5:19

“‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; — read the full passage →

Exodus 15:1

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

Exodus 6:3–13

and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 5:6–24

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. — read the full passage →

2 Corinthians 6:1–7:16

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:10–57

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

John 2:1–25

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

Luke 10:1–11:54

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

Matthew 12:30–45

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. — read the full passage →

Malachi 2:16–3:15

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously. — read the full passage →

Micah 6:1–7:20

Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 28:4–30:33

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 21:6–24

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:16–7:7

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

Psalms 127:1–5

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

Psalms 69:4–12

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away. — read the full passage →

Hosea 2:1–5:15

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 16:1–19:14

Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Isaiah 51:7–55:7

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don’t fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 5:3–11:10

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words. — read the full passage →

Psalms 32:1–36:12

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

Revelation 6:2–13:7

And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. — read the full passage →

James 3:1–5:20

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:1

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

2 Corinthians 10:1–13:14

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–16:27

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Matthew 3:2–8:22

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” — read the full passage →

Hosea 9:1–13:16

Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. — read the full passage →

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.