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2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 3,089 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2,967 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2,935 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2,873 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2,588 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2,483 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2,201 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 2,165 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 1,810 helpful votes
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 1,743 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 1,634 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 1,616 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 1,529 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 1,518 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 1,431 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 1,293 helpful votes
And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Amos 3:3 ESV / 1,282 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,260 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 1,189 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 1,164 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 1,136 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 1,066 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 1,034 helpful votes
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 1,010 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 1,005 helpful votes
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.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 985 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

James 1:5 ESV / 912 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 897 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 896 helpful votes
Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 881 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 868 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 856 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Matthew 10:37 ESV / 841 helpful votes
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 824 helpful votes
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

1 Corinthians 7:1-25 ESV / 799 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 798 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 775 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 773 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 769 helpful votes
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 751 helpful votes
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 751 helpful votes
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 743 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 726 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 723 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 704 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 695 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 692 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 688 helpful votes
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Psalm 32:1-6 ESV / 678 helpful votes
A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah …

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 677 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 673 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 671 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

Psalm 51:7-12 ESV / 669 helpful votes
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. …

Psalm 51:2-4 ESV / 668 helpful votes
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Romans 13:13 ESV / 658 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 657 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 655 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

James 4:4 ESV / 652 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Philippians 2:1-2 ESV / 645 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 642 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 639 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 638 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 627 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. …

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 614 helpful votes
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 611 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 603 helpful votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 571 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 570 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 570 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 John 2:16 ESV / 568 helpful votes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Song of Solomon 8:4 ESV / 568 helpful votes
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 567 helpful votes
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.

John 3:3-8 ESV / 553 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ …

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 552 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 551 helpful votes
You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 548 helpful votes
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 528 helpful votes
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 519 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 511 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 507 helpful votes
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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 499 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 488 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 483 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 481 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 481 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5:25-26 ESV / 462 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 461 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 460 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 458 helpful votes
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 456 helpful votes
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Ephesians 5:22-23 ESV / 456 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 443 helpful votes
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.

Genesis 24:67 ESV / 441 helpful votes
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 438 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 400 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Ecclesiastes 4:10 ESV / 386 helpful votes
For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 372 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 336 helpful votes
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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