Mark 5:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”

Galatians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do 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.

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Numbers 30:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Ezekiel 17:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 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.

Isaiah 28:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Proverbs 22:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Joshua 9:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”

Joshua 9:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 6:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

Colossians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Romans 8:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 45:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,

Isaiah 28:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Ecclesiastes 11:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 11:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,

Proverbs 2:6-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.

Nehemiah 9:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

1 Chronicles 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

1 Kings 9:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

Ruth 4:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

Joshua 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.”

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Numbers 18:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the Lord I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and for your offspring with you.”

Leviticus 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

Genesis 31:44-54 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me.” So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed, ...

Genesis 29:27-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.” Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.) So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

Genesis 29:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” ...

Genesis 26:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Peter 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

James 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Hebrews 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

Hebrews 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Masters, 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.

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

2 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful 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.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...

Matthew 20:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’

Matthew 20:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.

Matthew 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Matthew 18:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:33-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Malachi 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Jeremiah 32:10-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales. Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard. I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time. ...

Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 78:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Ezra 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Ezra 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

2 Chronicles 19:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

1 Kings 5:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.” So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

Ruth 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

Ruth 4:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.” Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel. So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.

Judges 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

Judges 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

Joshua 23:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

Joshua 9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.

Joshua 9:18-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them. This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.” And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them. Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us? ...

Joshua 9:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.

Joshua 9:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them. At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.

Joshua 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful They on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,

Joshua 9:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Joshua 9:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended, with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly. And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.” But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?” ...