Personal relationship with God
Romans 5:8 ESV / 739 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 1:10-13 ESV / 533 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:16 ESV / 530 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 501 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 468 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 439 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
John 14:6 ESV / 406 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 393 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 6:40 ESV / 333 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 15:5 ESV / 331 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 330 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 4:6-10 ESV / 307 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 263 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
See 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.
James 4:8 ESV / 259 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 253 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 Timothy 6:12-16 ESV / 237 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 231 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
John 6:55-59 ESV / 225 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 216 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 206 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Acts 3:19 ESV / 204 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 196 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 193 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
John 14:23 ESV / 187 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 15:13 ESV / 185 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 184 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 179 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, 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, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 176 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 174 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 173 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 170 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 168 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 165 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 158 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 156 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 156 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Ephesians 6:14-20 ESV / 155 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, …
Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 155 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 153 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
John 3:3 ESV / 152 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”