Reference: 1
Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To
act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (NIV)
Reference: 2
Exodus 15:26
He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what
is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees,
I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am
the LORD, who heals you." (NIV)
Psalm 106:3
Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right. (NIV)
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. (NIV)
Isaiah 1:17
learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the
fatherless, plead the case of the widow. (NIV)
Psalm 15:1-5
1 A psalm of David.
LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? 2 He whose
walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
3 and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur
on his fellowman, 4 who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the LORD, who
keeps his oath even when it hurts, 5 who lends his money without usury and does not
accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
(NIV)
Reference: 3
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because
God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (NIV)
Reference: 4
1 John 2:6
Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
Ephesians 5:1
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children (NIV)
1 Thessalonians 1:6
You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed
the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. (NIV)
Galatians 4:19
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is
formed in you, (NIV)
Reference: 5
John 15:27
And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
Deuteronomy 23:5
However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a
blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. (NIV)
Reference: 6
Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the
LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." (NIV)
Reference: 7
Psalm 25:1-2
Of David. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; 2 in you I trust, O my God. Do not let
me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. (NIV)
Psalm 31:14
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." (NIV)
Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the LORD. (NIV)
Psalm 52:8
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing
love for ever and ever. (NIV)
Psalm 56:4
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal
man do to me? (NIV)
John 14:1
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. (NIV)
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that
you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (NIV)
Reference: 8
Psalm 143:8
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in
you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. (NIV)
Reference: 9
John 14:16, 26
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you
forever--
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 15:26
"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit
of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. (NIV)
John 13:13
"You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what
I am. (NIV)
Reference: 10
John 1:1-14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2
He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the
darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6 There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7 He came as a witness
to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8 He
himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9 The true light
that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did
not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive
him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the
right to become children of God-- 13 children born not of natural descent, nor
of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(NIV)
Revelation 19:13
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. (NIV)
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts
and attitudes of the heart. (NIV)
Reference: 11
Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (NIV)
Proverbs 9:10
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy
One is understanding. (NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the
sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the
one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (NIV)
Ephesians 4:11-13
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists,
and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's people for works of service,
so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith
and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole
measure of the fullness of Christ. (NIV)
Colossians 1:9-14
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for
you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual
wisdom and understanding. 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy
of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing
in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious
might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks
to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in
the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and
brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins. (NIV)
Reference: 12
Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and
you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (NIV)
Reference: 13
Isaiah 28:9-13
"Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children
weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? 10 For it is: Do and
do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there." 11
Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues God will speak to this people,
12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place, let the weary rest"; and, "This
is the place of repose"-- but they would not listen. 13 So then, the word
of the LORD to them will become: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule;
a little here, a little there-- so that they will go and fall backward, be injured
and snared and captured. (NIV)
Reference: 14
James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins. (NIV)
Reference: 15
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for
every good work.
Reference: 16
John 8:31-32
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you
are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set
you free." (NIV)
Reference: 17
1 John 3:2
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made
known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him
as he is. (NIV)
Philippians 2:14-16
Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless
and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in
which you shine like stars in the universe 16 as you hold out the word of life--in
order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.
(NIV)
Ephesians 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self,
which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude
of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness
and holiness. (NIV)
Reference: 18
John 14:6-9
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.
From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you
such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show
us the Father'? (NIV)
John 17:25-26
"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they
know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to
make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself
may be in them." (NIV)
Reference: 19
1 Peter 1:10-11
Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come
to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time
and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted
the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
Reference: 20
James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and
purify your hearts, you double-minded. (NIV)
Reference: 21
1 John 4:16
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (NIV)
Reference: 22
Jeremiah 9:23-24
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the
strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let
him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the
LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I
delight," declares the LORD. (NIV)
Reference: 23
Matthew 7:7-8
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door
will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and
to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (NIV)
Reference: 24
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do. (NIV)
Reference: 25
Ezekiel 18:32
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent
and live! (NIV)
Reference: 26
Matthew 7:1
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. (NIV)
Luke 6:37
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not
be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. (NIV)
Reference: 27
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient
with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (NIV)
Reference: 28
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who
have been called according to his purpose. (NIV)
Reference: 29
James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in
due time.
Romans 12:3
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more
highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance
with the measure of faith God has given you.
Reference: 30
Hebrews 12:5-11
And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: "My
son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes
you, 6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts
as a son."
7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not
disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline),
then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had
human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should
we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for
a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we
may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.
Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who
have been trained by it. (NIV)
Reference: 31
Psalm 18:25-26
To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
26 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
(NIV)
Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke impresses a man of discernment more than a hundred lashes a fool. (NIV)
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and
discipline. (NIV)
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
(NIV)
Reference: 32
Philippians 2:5-8
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature
God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself
nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And
being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even
death on a cross! (NIV)