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Abortion: Abortion is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to life before birth, God forming each person in the womb, children as a gift, and the shedding of innocent blood.
Abraham: Abraham, first called Abram, was the man God called out of Ur and Haran to go to Canaan, with the promise that he would become a great nation and that all families of the earth would be blessed in him. He was the father of Isaac and the ancestor of Israel.
Accountability: Accountability is answerability for one's conduct. Every one shall give account of himself to God, believers are to confess their faults to one another and restore those overtaken in a fault, and those who lead must give account for those in their care.
Adam and Eve: Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, created by God and placed in the garden of Eden. They ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil against God's command, and were sent out of the garden.
Addiction: Addiction is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to drunkenness, being mastered by something, self-control, the body as a temple, and freedom.
Adoption: Adoption is the receiving of believers as sons and children of God, with the Spirit enabling them to call God "Abba, Father" and making them heirs of God; Moses and Esther were also adopted.
Adultery: Adultery is sexual relations between a married person and someone other than their spouse. It is forbidden in the Ten Commandments and is used as a picture of unfaithfulness to God.
Alcohol: Alcohol, usually wine or strong drink, appears throughout the Bible. This page lists the warnings against drunkenness and the other verses that mention wine.
Angels: Angels appear throughout the Bible as messengers and servants of God. This page lists verses on what angels are, angels named in Scripture, angels as messengers and protectors, angels carrying out God's judgments, angels in worship, and not worshipping angels.
Anger: Anger is strong displeasure or wrath, in people and in God. This page lists verses on being slow to anger, anger and sin, Jesus' teaching, answering gently, angry people, and the anger of God.
Animals: Animals appear from the first chapter of the Bible. This page lists verses on animals created by God, God's care for animals, treatment of animals, human dominion, lessons from animals, and peace among animals.
Anointing: Anointing is the pouring or rubbing of oil to consecrate, heal or honor: priests and kings were anointed, Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power, and believers have an unction from the Holy One. The elders are to anoint the sick with oil in the name of the Lord, and Christian traditions differ on whether this is a sacrament.
Antichrist: Antichrist is a word used in John's letters. This page lists the verses that use the word, along with verses on the man of sin, the beast in Revelation, passages in Daniel, and Jesus' warnings about false christs.
Anxiety: Anxiety and worry are addressed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and throughout the Psalms and letters. This page lists those verses.
Apostasy: Apostasy is falling away from the faith once professed. Christian traditions differ on whether a true believer can finally fall away and be lost, or whether those who fall away were never truly saved, and the warnings, examples and promises each side cites are listed below.
Ark of the Covenant: The Ark of the Covenant was the gold-covered chest made at God's command to hold the tablets of the testimony, with the mercy seat and two cherubim on its lid. It stood in the most holy place as the sign of God's presence among Israel, was brought to Jerusalem by David and was placed by Solomon in the temple.
Armor of God: The armor of God is a figure in Ephesians 6 that describes truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, and the word of God as pieces of armor for standing against the devil.
Art and craftsmanship: Art and craftsmanship are skills God gives, and he filled Bezaleel and other workers with wisdom to make the tabernacle and its furnishings. This page lists verses on skill as a gift from God, the craftsmen of the tabernacle and temple, skilled musicians, trades, God as maker, and craftsmen who made idols.
Ascension of Jesus: The ascension of Jesus is recorded in Luke, Acts and Mark. This page lists verses on the ascension accounts, Jesus speaking of going to the Father, and Jesus seated at God's right hand.
Assurance of salvation: Assurance of salvation is the confidence that one has eternal life. Christian traditions differ on whether a true believer can lose salvation: some teach eternal security, often called once saved always saved, while others hold that salvation can be forfeited by falling away, and both the assurance passages and the warning passages are listed below.
Atheism: Atheism is the denial that God exists, and the one who says in his heart that there is no God is called a fool. This page lists verses on denying God, creation's witness to God, claims that God does not see or act, living without God, and seeking God.
Atonement: Atonement is the covering or removal of sin and the reconciling of people to God. This page lists verses on the Day of Atonement in the Law, the suffering servant in Isaiah, the death of Jesus for sin, and propitiation and reconciliation.
Baptism: Baptism is a washing with water described in the New Testament. This page lists verses on John the Baptist, the baptism of Jesus, Jesus' command to baptize, baptisms recorded in Acts, and statements in the letters.
Beatitudes: The Beatitudes are the sayings of Jesus that begin "Blessed are" in Matthew 5 and Luke 6. This page lists the Beatitudes in both Gospels and other "blessed" sayings in Scripture.
Beauty: Beauty belongs first to God and His works. Outward beauty is vain and passing, and the lasting adornment is the hidden man of the heart, a meek and quiet spirit, and the fear of the Lord.
Betrayal: Betrayal is the breaking of trust by a friend, companion or kin. Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, David lamented betrayal by his own familiar friend, and God remains faithful when others forsake.
Birth control: Birth control is not named in the Bible, and Christian traditions differ on it. Some hold that married love must remain open to children, citing the command to be fruitful and the account of Onan, while others hold that contraception is permitted within marriage, citing marital intimacy that is not tied to conception.
Birth of Jesus: The birth of Jesus is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. This page lists verses on the prophecies, the announcement to Mary, Joseph's dream, the birth in Bethlehem, the shepherds and the wise men.
Birthdays: Birthdays are neither commanded nor forbidden in the Bible, and the only birthday feasts named are those of Pharaoh and Herod. God forms each person in the womb, gives life and breath, and teaches his people to number their days.
Bitterness: Bitterness is lasting resentment or deep grief of heart. A root of bitterness is warned against, and kindness and forgiveness are to take its place.
Blessing: A blessing is God's favor and goodness given to people, or spoken words that ask for or declare that favor; people also bless God and bless others.
Born again: Born again is the phrase Jesus used with Nicodemus for a new birth from God. This page lists verses on being born again, being born of God, the new creation, regeneration, and the promise of a new heart.
Bribery: Bribery is the giving or receiving of gifts or money to influence a decision. Taking bribes is forbidden, especially in judgment, because bribes pervert justice.
Broken heart: A broken heart is deep sorrow of spirit from loss, rejection, or disappointment. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds, and does not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Burial and cremation: Burial and cremation are the two main ways of laying the dead to rest, and burial was the normal practice among God's people, from the patriarchs to Jesus Himself, while the burning of bodies appears mostly in judgment or emergency. Cremation is not named or forbidden in the Bible, Christian traditions differ on whether it is fitting, and the body that returns to dust will be raised.
Business: Business is the buying, selling, and making of goods and services. God requires honest weights and measures, fair dealing, and diligence in work.
Calling: Calling is God summoning people to himself and to salvation, and God appointing individuals to particular tasks, such as prophets, apostles, and disciples.
Capital punishment: Capital punishment, the death penalty, appears in the law given to Noah and to Israel and is mentioned in the New Testament. This page lists those verses.
Care of the body: Care of the body concerns the human body, which is made by God and, for believers, is a temple of the Holy Spirit. This page lists verses on the body, health, food and drink, and rest.
Cheating: Cheating is gaining an advantage by dishonesty or deceit. False weights and measures, defrauding a neighbor, and wealth gained by deceit are condemned.
Children: Children are spoken of throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on children as a gift, Jesus and children, instructions to children, teaching children, growing up before the Lord, and believers as children of God.
Church: The church is the gathered community of believers. This page lists verses on Jesus building his church, Christ and the church, the body of Christ, the early church, and leaders in the church.
Church discipline: Church discipline is the correction of members of a church who persist in sin. It proceeds by steps, from confronting the sin to removal from fellowship, with restoration after repentance.
Circumcision: Circumcision was the sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants, and the heart is also said to be circumcised. This page lists verses on its institution, its practice in Israel, circumcision of the heart, and the debate over circumcision in Acts and Paul's letters.
Comfort: Comfort is consolation and strength given in sorrow or trouble. God is the God of all comfort, the Holy Spirit is the Comforter, and believers are to comfort one another.
Complaining: Complaining, or murmuring, is the expression of discontent or grievance. Israel murmured in the wilderness, and believers are told to do all things without murmurings.
Confession: Confession is acknowledging sin to God, and also openly declaring faith in Jesus. Confession of sin is linked with forgiveness, and confession of Christ with salvation.
Conflict: Conflict is strife and quarreling between people. Wars and fightings come from the lusts within, a soft answer turns away wrath, and believers are to go to an offended brother, be reconciled and, as much as lies in them, live peaceably with all men.
Conscience: The conscience is the inner sense of right and wrong. It accuses or excuses a person, can be defiled or seared, and is cleansed through the blood of Christ.
Contentment: Contentment is described by Paul as something he had learned (Philippians 4:11). This page lists verses on being content, warnings against coveting, having little, and Jesus' teaching on worry and provision.
Counsel: Counsel is advice given to guide decisions. The Lord is the Wonderful Counsellor, in the multitude of counsellors there is safety, and the wise hearken unto counsel, while the counsel of the ungodly is to be shunned.
Courage: Courage appears in Scripture often in the command "be strong and of a good courage." This page lists verses on courage, God's presence with the fearful, boldness, and standing firm.
Covenant: A covenant is a binding agreement, especially one God made with people. This page lists verses on the covenants with Noah, Abraham, Israel at Sinai and David, the new covenant, covenants made between people, and the people renewing the covenant.
Creation: Creation is described in the opening chapters of Genesis and mentioned throughout the Bible. This page lists verses from the creation account, on God as Creator, the creation of people, creation through the Word, and creation declaring God's glory.
Crucifixion of Jesus: The crucifixion of Jesus is recorded in all four Gospels. This page lists verses on Jesus predicting his death, the crucifixion accounts, his words from the cross, prophecies, and his death as spoken of in the letters.
Curses: Curses are pronouncements of harm or judgment: God cursed the serpent and the ground after the fall and set curses for breaking his covenant, and Christ redeemed believers from the curse of the law. Christian traditions differ on generational curses, some teaching that curses pass down family lines and must be broken and others that each person bears his own iniquity, and the passages each side cites are listed.
Cursing: Cursing is both calling down harm on others and corrupt or filthy speech. Misusing the name of God is forbidden, and speech is to be clean and edifying.
Dancing: Dancing appears in praise of God, in celebrations of victory and joy, and in idolatry and revelry. This page lists verses on dancing in praise, David dancing before the ark, dancing in celebration, mourning and dancing, and dancing in idolatry and revelry.
Daniel: Daniel was a young man of Judah taken captive to Babylon, who served in the courts of Babylonian and Persian kings. He interpreted dreams, was delivered from the lions' den, and received visions recorded in the book of Daniel.
Dating: Dating is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to marrying in the Lord, finding a spouse, sexual purity before marriage, and love.
David: David was the shepherd son of Jesse whom God chose and Samuel anointed, and who became the second king of Israel. He killed Goliath, wrote many of the psalms, and received God's promise that his throne would be established for ever.
Death: Death is the common lot of humanity and an enemy to be destroyed. This page lists verses on the origin of death, the brevity of life, victory over death, comfort in the face of death, and the end of death.
Debt: Debt is money or goods owed to another. The Bible addresses borrowing, lending, interest, repayment, and the release of debts.
Deity of Christ: The deity of Christ is the teaching that Jesus Christ is God. He is the eternal Word who was with God and was God, in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and he is called God, bears the divine name and receives worship.
Demons: Demons are evil or unclean spirits. This page lists verses on fallen angels and evil spirits, demons recognizing Jesus, Jesus casting out demons, the charge that Jesus had a devil, authority given to the disciples, and warnings about demons.
Depression: Depression is not named in the Bible, which describes people who were downcast, in despair, or weary of life. This page lists verses on God's nearness to the brokenhearted, laments in the Psalms, accounts of despair in Scripture, comfort, and hope.
Disability: Disability is not a term used in the Bible, which speaks instead of the blind, the deaf, the lame and the infirm. This page lists the verses on people with disabilities, care and justice for them, and Jesus healing them.
Discipleship: Discipleship is following Jesus as his disciple. This page lists verses on Jesus' call to follow him, taking up the cross, counting the cost, the marks of a disciple, and making disciples.
Discipline of God: The discipline of God is his loving correction of his children. The Lord chastens those he loves as a father corrects a son, so that they may share his holiness and yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
Divorce: Divorce is addressed in the law of Moses, by the prophets, by Jesus, and by Paul. This page lists those verses.
Doctrine: Doctrine is teaching about God and his ways, and believers are told to hold to sound doctrine and turn from teaching that departs from it. This page lists verses on sound doctrine, the doctrine of Jesus, Scripture and doctrine, the apostles' teaching, being carried about by false teaching, and the responsibility of teachers.
Doubt: Doubt is uncertainty or wavering in belief. Believers doubted at times, Jesus answered their doubts, and God calls his people to faith and assurance.
Dreams and visions: Dreams and visions are among the ways God revealed himself and his purposes, as to Joseph, Daniel, the wise men and Peter, and he promised that in the last days young men would see visions and old men dream dreams. Christian traditions differ on whether God still speaks through dreams and visions today, and the passages each side cites are listed below.
Education and learning: Education and learning begin with the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of knowledge. Children are to be taught diligently, the wise hear and increase learning, and those who teach bear the greater judgment.
Elders: Elders are leaders of God's people; in the New Testament church they are also called overseers or bishops, and shepherds, and deacons serve alongside them. Their qualifications and duties are set out in the New Testament letters.
Elijah: Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet in Israel during the reign of Ahab who challenged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. He was taken up into heaven by a whirlwind, and Malachi foretold his return before the day of the LORD.
Elisha: Elisha, son of Shaphat, was the prophet who followed Elijah and received a double portion of his spirit. Many miracles were done through him in Israel.
Employers and employees: Employers and employees are addressed in the instructions to masters and servants and in the laws on hired workers. These command fair and timely wages and diligent, sincere service.
Encouragement: Encouragement is strengthening and urging others on in faith, hope and good works. Believers are to exhort, edify and comfort one another.
Enemies: Enemies are those who oppose or hate a person or God's people. Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies, do good to them and pray for them, and taking revenge is forbidden.
Esther: Esther, also called Hadassah, was a Jewish orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai who became queen to the Persian king Ahasuerus. She went before the king to save her people from Haman's plot, and the feast of Purim remembers that deliverance.
Eternal life: Eternal life is everlasting life given by God. This page lists verses on eternal life through Jesus, knowing God, eternal life as a gift, Jesus' teaching, and the Old Testament.
Euthanasia: Euthanasia is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to life and death being in God's hands, the command not to murder, and God's care for those who suffer.
Evil: Evil is all that is wicked and opposed to God. God is good and tempts no one; evil entered the world through the devil and human sin, God rules over it and turns it to good, he will finally destroy it, and his people are to hate evil and overcome it with good.
Excuses: Excuses are reasons offered for not obeying or for shifting blame, and all people are without excuse before God. This page lists verses on being without excuse, blaming others, excuses for not answering God's call, excuses in the teaching of Jesus, the sluggard's excuses, and excuses that do not stand before God.
Exile: Exile was God's judgment on Israel and Judah for turning from him, as Assyria carried off the northern kingdom and Babylon took Judah, until a remnant returned under Cyrus. This page lists verses on the warnings of exile, the Assyrian exile, the Babylonian exile, life in exile, the promise of return, and the return.
Failure: Failure appears in the falls and sins of God's people and in the failing of human strength. God restores those who fall, and his promises, unlike human strength, do not fail.
Faith: Faith is described in Hebrews 11:1 as assurance and certainty about what is hoped for and not seen. This page lists verses on faith, Jesus' sayings about faith, Abraham's faith, faith and salvation, faith and works, and faith tested.
Faith and works: Faith and works concerns how believing in Christ relates to good deeds in salvation. Christian traditions differ: Protestants hold that justification is by faith alone, with good works as its fruit, while Catholic and Orthodox traditions hold that faith working through love and cooperating with grace belongs to justification, and the passages each side relies on are listed below.
Faithfulness: Faithfulness is being loyal and trustworthy toward God and toward others. This page lists verses on faithful servants, faithfulness in small things, how faithful people are valued, loyal friends, faithfulness to the end, and unfaithfulness.
Faithfulness of God: The faithfulness of God is a frequent theme in the Psalms and the letters. This page lists verses on God's faithfulness, God keeping promises, and God's faithfulness to his people.
False accusation: False accusation is charging someone with wrongdoing they did not commit. This page lists verses forbidding false witness and slander, the judgment of false witnesses, people who were falsely accused, Jesus before his accusers, prayers of the wrongly accused, and how to respond.
False teachers: False teachers are people who teach falsely in God's name. This page lists verses warning about false prophets and false teachers in the Old Testament, the words of Jesus, Acts and the letters, and verses on testing what is taught.
Family: The family is the household of husband, wife, children and kin, established by God from creation. Parents are to teach their children the ways of the Lord, children are to honor their parents, and each is to provide for his own house; the church is the household of God.
Fasting: Fasting is going without food for a time, often with prayer. This page lists verses on Jesus' teaching about fasting, Jesus' fast in the wilderness, Isaiah 58, fasting with prayer and repentance, and fasting in the early church.
Fathers: Fathers are addressed directly in several passages of the Bible. This page lists verses with instructions to fathers, a father's teaching and discipline, examples of fathers, and God as Father.
Fear: Fear appears in Scripture both as being afraid and as the fear of the Lord. This page lists verses telling God's people not to fear, Jesus on fear, love and fear, and the fear of the Lord.
Fear of man: The fear of man is being ruled by what other people think or might do, and it brings a snare. This page lists verses on fearing God rather than people, pleasing people or pleasing God, faith hidden for fear of others, giving in to the crowd, and boldness before others.
Feasts of Israel: The feasts of Israel are the appointed times God gave Israel to gather before him each year, from Passover in the spring to Tabernacles in the autumn. This page lists verses on the appointed feasts, each feast in turn, Purim, Jesus at the feasts, and the feasts in Acts and the letters.
Fellowship: Fellowship is shared life among believers and with God. This page lists verses on fellowship with God, the early church, gathering together, caring for one another, unity, and fellowship with darkness.
Flattery: Flattery is insincere praise used to please or manipulate, and the Lord shall cut off all flattering lips. This page lists verses on flattering lips, smooth words that hide the heart, flattery used for gain or seduction, and honest words in place of flattery.
Food and dietary laws: Food and dietary laws begin with food as God's gift, to be received with thanksgiving, and the law of Moses gave Israel rules on clean and unclean animals and forbade eating blood. Christian traditions differ on whether the clean-food laws still apply: most hold that they were fulfilled or set aside in Christ, while some, such as Seventh-day Adventists and many Messianic believers, continue to keep them.
Foolishness: Foolishness, or folly, is the rejection of wisdom, instruction, and the fear of the Lord. The fool says in his heart there is no God, is right in his own eyes, despises correction, and returns to his folly, while the foolishness of God is wiser than men.
Foreigners: Foreigners, also called strangers or sojourners, are named often in the Law and the Prophets. This page lists verses on loving the stranger, one law for all, provision and justice for strangers, foreigners joining God's people, and God's people as strangers.
Forgiveness: Forgiveness appears throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on God forgiving sin, the instruction to forgive others, and Jesus' words on the cross.
Freedom: Freedom is release from bondage. Christ sets people free from sin, from the condemnation of the law and from death, and those made free are to use their liberty to serve one another in love, not as an occasion for the flesh.
Friendship: Friendship is described in many passages of the Bible. This page lists verses on the value of friends, faithful counsel, choosing friends, Jesus and his friends, David and Jonathan, and friendship with God.
Fruit of the Spirit: The fruit of the Spirit is a list in Galatians 5:22-23 of nine qualities (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance) produced by the Holy Spirit, in contrast to the works of the flesh.
Gambling: Gambling is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to greed, the pursuit of quick riches, honest work, and contentment.
Gender: Gender begins with the creation of humanity as male and female. This page lists verses on that creation, its affirmation by Jesus, and related laws.
Generosity: Generosity is the free and willing giving of one's money, goods, or help to others. Giving to the poor and cheerful giving are commended, and God is the giver of every good gift.
Gentiles: Gentiles are the peoples of the nations, as distinct from Israel. This page lists verses on the ways of the nations, God's dealings with all peoples, promises of blessing to the nations, Gentiles in the ministry of Jesus and in Acts, Jew and Gentile in one body, and Gentiles grafted in.
Glory of God: The glory of God is the splendor, majesty, and honor of God, declared in creation, dwelling among his people in the tabernacle and temple, and revealed in Jesus Christ.
Gluttony: Gluttony is warned against in Proverbs and elsewhere in Scripture. This page lists verses on gluttony, appetite, restraint, the body and food, and living not by bread alone.
God: God is the subject of the Bible from its first verse to its last. This page lists verses on God's existence, God as one, God's eternity, God's knowledge and power, God's presence, God's love, and God's impartiality.
Goodness of God: The goodness of God is his moral perfection and his kindness toward his creatures. God is good, his mercy endures forever, he is good to all, and every good and perfect gift comes from him.
Gospel: The gospel is the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ: that he died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day. It is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, and it is to be preached to every creature.
Gossip: Gossip is spreading rumors or private matters about others, and is warned against especially in Proverbs. This page lists verses on talebearing, slander, gossip in lists of sins, and guarding speech.
Government: Government and civil authority are addressed in the Gospels and the New Testament letters. This page lists verses on submitting to authorities, paying taxes, praying for leaders, obeying God, and unjust rulers.
Grace: Grace is a word used often in the New Testament. This page lists the verses that speak of it, in the Gospels and in the letters.
Graduation: Graduation is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to God's plans for the future, trusting him for guidance, courage at a new beginning, growing in wisdom, and work as service to the Lord.
Great Commission: The Great Commission is the name given to Jesus' command to make disciples of all nations. This page lists verses on the commission in Matthew, the other Gospels and Acts, preaching the gospel, the gospel going to all nations, and telling what God has done.
Great Tribulation: The Great Tribulation is a time of distress unequalled since the beginning of the world, foretold by Jesus and the prophets. Christians differ on its timing and meaning: futurists place it just before the Second Coming and hold pre-, mid- or post-tribulation views of the rapture, while preterists hold that it was fulfilled in the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70; the passages each view relies on are listed.
Greed: Greed, or covetousness, is an excessive desire for wealth or possessions. Coveting is forbidden in the Ten Commandments, and the love of money is repeatedly warned against.
Grief: Grief is expressed by many people in Scripture, including Jesus. This page lists verses on God's comfort for those who mourn, Jesus and grief, accounts of grief in Scripture, mourning customs, a time to mourn, and hope beyond grief.
Guidance: Guidance is God's direction for his people. God leads through his word, his Spirit, prayer and wise counsel.
Guilt: Guilt is the state of having broken God's law and being liable to judgment. All people are guilty before God, and guilt is taken away through confession, atonement and forgiveness.
Hardness of heart: Hardness of heart is a stubborn refusal to hear, believe, or turn to God. This page lists verses on Pharaoh's hardened heart, warnings not to harden the heart, a stiff-necked people, God hardening and giving people over, hard hearts and unbelief, and the promise of a new heart.
Hate: Hate is strong ill will or aversion. Hating a brother is walking in darkness and is murder in the heart, hatred stirs up strifes, and love covers all sins; God hates evil, and the righteous are to hate evil and love their enemies.
Healing: Healing is recorded throughout Scripture, especially in the ministry of Jesus. This page lists verses on God as healer, healings by Jesus, healing in the early church, and prayer for healing.
Hearing God's voice: Hearing God's voice is receiving what God speaks to His people, and Christ's sheep hear His voice. God has spoken in these last days by His Son and through the Scriptures, and Christian traditions differ on whether He still gives new personal words, visions and prophecy today or now speaks chiefly through the completed Scriptures.
Heart: The heart is the inner person, the seat of thought, will, desire and feeling. God looks on the heart, the natural heart is deceitful and the source of evil, and God gives a new heart to those who turn to him.
Heaven: Heaven is the dwelling place of God and the hope of believers. This page lists verses on what it is called, Jesus' promises, and the new heaven and earth.
Hell: Hell is a place of judgment and punishment. This page lists verses from Jesus' teaching, the letters and Revelation.
Holiness: Holiness is being set apart for God and pure. This page lists verses on the call to be holy as God is holy, God's holiness, a holy people, and holy living.
Holiness of God: The holiness of God is spoken of in both the Old and New Testaments. This page lists verses calling God holy, scenes of worship before God's holiness, God's purity, and the call for God's people to be holy.
Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit, also called the Spirit of God, appears from the first chapter of Genesis onward. This page lists verses about the Spirit in the Old Testament, the Gospels, Acts and the letters, and on grieving, resisting and blaspheming the Spirit.
Home: Home is the house and household that the LORD builds and keeps, where his words are kept, he is served, and others are welcomed. These verses are often read when moving into or dedicating a new home.
Homosexuality: Homosexuality is addressed in several passages of the Old and New Testaments. This page lists those verses and the passages on marriage as male and female.
Honoring parents: Honoring parents is one of the Ten Commandments. This page lists verses on the commandment, its repetition in the New Testament, sayings in Proverbs, and caring for parents.
Hope: Hope is named alongside faith and love in 1 Corinthians 13:13. This page lists verses on hope in God, hope in the Psalms, waiting on the Lord, and the hope of future glory.
Hospitality: Hospitality is the welcoming of guests and strangers, both commanded and modeled. This page lists verses with commands to show hospitality, welcoming strangers, inviting the poor, receiving God's messengers, and examples.
Humility: Humility is commended throughout Scripture. This page lists verses on God's favor toward the humble, humbling oneself, Jesus' teaching and example, humble servants of God, and humility toward others.
Husbands: Husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church. This page lists the Bible's instructions to husbands.
Hypocrisy: Hypocrisy is rebuked many times by Jesus. This page lists verses on Jesus' rebukes of hypocrites, religion done to be seen, honoring God with the lips only, and doing what is said.
Identity in Christ: Identity in Christ is what believers are through their union with Christ. It includes being a new creation, children of God, chosen and forgiven, and members of his body.
Idolatry: Idolatry is the worship of idols or false gods. This page lists verses forbidding idols, describing idols, children sacrificed to idols, the golden calf, New Testament warnings about idolatry, turning from idols, and the end of idols.
Ignorance: Ignorance is lack of knowledge, especially of God and his ways, and his people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. This page lists verses on lack of knowledge, sins of ignorance, those who acted ignorantly, willful ignorance, knowledge and responsibility, not knowing God, and things not to be ignorant of.
Image of God: The image of God is the likeness in which human beings were created. Christ is the image of God, and believers are renewed after that image.
Infertility: Infertility, called barrenness, is the inability to conceive children; Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Hannah and Elisabeth were barren until God opened the womb, and He makes the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children. Modern fertility treatments such as IVF are not named in the Bible.
Influence: Influence is the effect people have on one another for good or for evil. This page lists verses on bad company, good companions, being salt and light, setting an example, examples to follow, and the spread of a little leaven.
Inheritance: An inheritance is property passed down to heirs. Israel had laws on inheritance and disputes over birthrights, and God's people have an eternal inheritance.
Integrity: Integrity is commended in Scripture as walking uprightly and blamelessly. This page lists verses on integrity, honest dealings, truthful speech, and examples of integrity in Scripture.
Isaac: Isaac was the son God promised to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. He was the husband of Rebekah and the father of Esau and Jacob, and God renewed with him the covenant made with Abraham.
Isaiah: Isaiah, son of Amoz, was a prophet in Judah during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. The book bearing his name is quoted often in the New Testament.
Israel: Israel is the name God gave to Jacob and to the nation descended from his twelve sons, God's chosen people under the covenant made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Jacob: Jacob was the son of Isaac and Rebekah and the twin brother of Esau. God renamed him Israel, and his twelve sons became the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jealousy: Jealousy and envy are addressed throughout the Bible. This page lists verses warning against envy, on envy and strife, coveting, putting away envy, examples of envy, and the jealousy of God.
Jeremiah: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, was a prophet in Judah from the reign of Josiah to the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon. He warned of judgment, was opposed and imprisoned, and foretold the return from exile and a new covenant.
Jerusalem: Jerusalem is the city David made the capital of Israel and where Solomon built the temple; it is where Jesus was crucified and rose again, and a new Jerusalem will come down from heaven.
Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the promised Messiah, the Word who was with God and was God and who became flesh. Born of the virgin Mary in Bethlehem, he preached the kingdom of God, healed the sick and forgave sins, was crucified under Pontius Pilate as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, rose from the dead on the third day, ascended into heaven, and will come again. This page lists verses on his birth, the titles used for him, his "I am" sayings, his ministry, his compassion and humility, his death and his resurrection.
Job: Job was a righteous man of the land of Uz who lost his children, his wealth and his health. He disputed with his friends, was answered by God out of the whirlwind, and was restored.
John the Baptist: John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elisabeth who preached repentance in the wilderness of Judea and baptized in the Jordan. He prepared the way for Jesus, baptized him, and was beheaded by Herod.
Jonah: Jonah, son of Amittai, was a prophet whom God sent to preach against Nineveh. He fled by sea, was swallowed by a great fish, and after his deliverance preached in Nineveh, and its people repented.
Joseph, son of Jacob: Joseph was the son of Jacob and Rachel, sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers. He interpreted Pharaoh's dreams, became ruler over Egypt under Pharaoh, and provided for his family during the famine.
Joshua: Joshua, son of Nun, was Moses' assistant and successor, who led Israel across the Jordan into Canaan. He led the conquest of the land and divided it among the tribes.
Joy: Joy is listed among the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22. This page lists verses on joy in the Lord, commands to rejoice, joy in trials, Jesus' sayings about joy, and joy that does not last.
Judging others: Judging others is addressed by Jesus and the apostles. This page lists verses on Jesus' teaching, not judging a brother, God as judge, and judging rightly.
Judgment: Judgment is God's judging of all people. This page lists verses on everyone being judged, Jesus as judge, judgment according to deeds, the throne of judgment, and freedom from condemnation.
Justice: Justice is a recurring theme throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on God's love of justice, commands to do justice, impartial judgment, defending the poor, and Jesus' words.
Justification: Justification is a word used in the letters of Paul and James for being made right, or declared righteous, before God. This page lists verses on being justified by faith and by grace, Abraham's righteousness, righteousness from God, and justification and works.
Kindness: Kindness is listed among the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22. This page lists verses on kindness toward others, God's kindness, kindness in Proverbs, and kindness to enemies.
Kingdom of God: The kingdom of God, called the kingdom of heaven in Matthew, is a frequent subject of Jesus' teaching. This page lists verses on Jesus proclaiming the kingdom, what it is like, entering it, seeking and praying for it, and its coming.
Lamb of God: Lamb of God is a title given to Jesus by John the Baptist, recalling the Passover lamb and the sacrificial lambs of the Law of Moses; the book of Revelation repeatedly calls the risen Christ the Lamb.
Law of Moses: The Law of Moses is the body of commandments God gave Israel through Moses at Sinai, recorded in Exodus through Deuteronomy, including the Ten Commandments and laws for worship, sacrifice, and daily life.
Lawsuits: A lawsuit is a dispute brought before a court. The Bible addresses believers going to law against one another, settling with an adversary, and resolving disputes within the church.
Laying on of hands: Laying on of hands is placing hands on a person or an animal to bless, heal, commission, or set apart. This page lists verses on its use in blessing, healing, commissioning for service, receiving the Holy Spirit, and offering sacrifices, and on how the letters speak of it.
Laziness: Laziness is warned against most often in Proverbs, which calls the lazy person a sluggard. This page lists verses on the sluggard, the results of laziness, idleness in the New Testament, and diligence.
Leadership: Leadership is addressed in both Testaments. This page lists verses on serving as a leader, qualifications for church leaders, wisdom and counsel, ruling justly, responsibility, and following leaders.
Lent: Lent is not named in the Bible; it is the forty-day season of fasting, prayer and repentance before Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday, kept by Catholic, Orthodox and many Protestant churches, while other Christians do not observe the church calendar. The passages traditions associate with the season and those cited against required holy days are listed.
Light: Light is the first thing God created and a frequent image for God, his word, truth, and goodness, in contrast with darkness; Jesus called himself the light of the world.
Loneliness: Loneliness is described in Scripture from the creation account onward. This page lists verses on companionship, God's presence, the cry of the lonely in the Psalms, God's care for the solitary, and times Jesus and Paul were left alone.
Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer is the prayer Jesus taught his disciples. It appears in two Gospels: Matthew, as part of the Sermon on the Mount, and Luke.
Lord's Supper: The Lord's Supper is the meal of bread and cup that Jesus shared with his disciples the night before his death. This page lists verses on the Last Supper, Paul's instructions, the bread of life, the breaking of bread in Acts, and the Passover.
Loss of a child: The loss of a child, whether by miscarriage, stillbirth or death in childhood, is met by God's nearness to the brokenhearted and the hope of the resurrection. Christian traditions differ on the eternal state of those who die in infancy, and the passages each side cites, including David's words about his infant son, are listed without a verdict.
Love: Love is a central theme of the Bible. This page lists verses on the commandments to love God and neighbor, God's love, love for one another, love for enemies, and love for Christ.
Love of God: The love of God is God's love for people: everlasting and steadfast, shown above all in the sending of his Son, and nothing can separate those who belong to him from it.
Lust: Lust is addressed by Jesus and throughout the Bible as a matter of the heart and the eyes. This page lists those verses, which are often cited in discussions of pornography.
Lying: Lying is forbidden in the Ten Commandments and condemned throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on false witness, honesty, and the source of lies.
Malice: Malice is ill will that wishes or plots harm against others. This page lists verses on putting away malice, devising evil, hatred in the heart, rejoicing at another's trouble, harm that falls back on the plotter, and returning good for evil.
Mark of the beast: The mark of the beast is the mark on the right hand or forehead, tied to the name and number of the beast, 666, that the second beast causes all to receive; those who receive it and worship the beast drink the wine of God's wrath. Christians differ on its meaning: some expect a future literal mark, others read it as a symbol of allegiance set against the seal of God, and others identify the number with a historical ruler such as Nero; the passages are listed without a verdict.
Marriage: Marriage is instituted in the first chapters of Genesis. This page lists verses on its origin, Jesus' teaching, husbands and wives, faithfulness, and marrying those who serve other gods.
Mary Magdalene: Mary Magdalene was a follower of Jesus out of whom seven devils had gone, and who ministered to him of her substance. She stood by the cross, saw where he was buried, and was among the first to find the tomb empty and to see the risen Jesus.
Mary, mother of Jesus: Mary was a virgin of Nazareth, espoused to Joseph, who conceived Jesus by the Holy Ghost and gave birth to him in Bethlehem. The Gospels and Acts record her at Jesus' birth and childhood, during his ministry, at the cross, and among the disciples after his ascension.
Medicine and physicians: Medicine and physicians appear throughout the Bible: Luke was the beloved physician, Jesus said the sick need a physician, and Isaiah prescribed a lump of figs for Hezekiah. Christian traditions differ on the place of medicine, most holding that God heals through physicians and remedies as well as in answer to prayer, while some faith-healing groups teach reliance on prayer alone, citing the Lord as healer and the rebuke of Asa for seeking physicians rather than the Lord.
Meditation: Meditation is thoughtful, prayerful reflection on God, his word and his works.
Men: Men are created in the image of God together with women. A man is to be strong and courageous, to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God, to keep himself pure, and to love and provide for his household.
Mercy: Mercy is compassion shown to the guilty or the needy, including the withholding of deserved punishment. God is rich in mercy and calls on people to show mercy to others.
Messianic prophecy: Messianic prophecy refers to Old Testament passages that the New Testament connects to Jesus. This page lists prophecies on the Messiah's birth, ministry, suffering and reign, and New Testament verses on prophecy fulfilled.
Millennium: The Millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with his saints during which Satan is bound. Christians differ on its nature: premillennialists expect a literal reign on earth after the Second Coming, postmillennialists a long age of the gospel's triumph before it, and amillennialists read it as Christ's present reign; the passages each view relies on are listed.
Mind and thoughts: Mind and thoughts are the seat of understanding and intention, and God knows every thought. Believers are to be transformed by the renewing of the mind, to set their affection on things above, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and to think on whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report.
Miracles: Miracles are signs and wonders done by the power of God, from the exodus through the ministry of the apostles. This page lists verses on God who does wonders, signs in the exodus and in Israel's history, miracles through the apostles and gifts of miracles in the church, why signs were given, unbelief in the face of signs, and false signs.
Miracles of Jesus: The miracles of Jesus are recorded across the four Gospels. This page lists verses on Jesus healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, miracles over nature, and the purpose the Gospels give for the signs.
Mockery: Mockery is scorning or ridiculing God, his word, or other people, and God is not mocked. This page lists verses on the scorner, taunts against God, the mocking of Jesus and of God's servants, and scoffers in the last days.
Modesty: Modesty is decency and restraint in dress and conduct, including modest apparel, inward rather than outward adornment, and the covering of nakedness.
Money: Money and wealth are a frequent subject of Jesus' teaching. This page lists verses on the love of money, greed, contentment, generosity and debt.
Morning: Morning is when the LORD's mercies are made new. The godly seek him early, direct their prayer to him in the morning and sing of his lovingkindness at dawn, and Jesus rose a great while before day to pray.
Moses: Moses was the leader who brought Israel out of Egypt and received the Law from God at Mount Sinai. He led the people through the wilderness for forty years and died in sight of the promised land.
Mothers: Mothers appear throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on a mother's comfort and care, a mother's teaching, honoring mothers, the woman of Proverbs 31, and mothers in Scripture.
Motives: Motives are the reasons behind what a person does, and the Lord weighs the heart behind every action. This page lists verses on God testing motives, doing good to be seen by others, acting from wrong motives, and doing all things for God.
Murder: Murder, the unlawful killing of a person, is forbidden in the Ten Commandments. This page lists verses on the commandment, the first murder, the value of human life, and Jesus' teaching on anger and hatred.
Music: Music includes singing and the playing of instruments, used in worship, celebration and mourning.
Name of Jesus: The name of Jesus was given to the Son of God because he would save his people from their sins. It is the name above every name and the only name under heaven by which people must be saved, and believers pray, heal, baptize, gather and suffer in his name.
Names of God: The names of God appear throughout the Bible, often given at a particular event. This page lists verses where God is named or titled, including I AM, the LORD, God Almighty, and names given by people.
Nations: Nations are made by God, who sets their times and boundaries and rules over them, and righteousness exalts a nation. Believers are to pray for those in authority, seek the peace of the land where they live and honor its rulers, and make disciples of all nations, while their citizenship is in heaven.
Neighbors: Neighbors are the fellow people one lives among or meets. The command to love one's neighbor as oneself is given in the Law of Moses and repeated by Jesus as the second great commandment.
Nephilim: The Nephilim were giants, mighty men of renown on the earth before the Flood, and the name is used again of the sons of Anak in Canaan. Christian traditions differ on Genesis 6: some read the sons of God as fallen angels who took human wives, others as the godly line of Seth or as human rulers, and the passages each reading cites are listed below.
New beginnings: New beginnings come from God, who makes all things new. His mercies are new every morning, anyone in Christ is a new creature, and believers forget those things which are behind and press toward the mark.
New heaven and new earth: The new heaven and new earth is the new creation at the end of the present age, in which God dwells with his people and there is no more death, sorrow, or pain.
Noah: Noah was the righteous man whom God told to build an ark to save his family and the animals from the flood. After the flood God made a covenant with him never again to destroy the earth by water.
Obedience: Obedience is doing what God commands. This page lists verses on love and obedience, obedience and sacrifice, being doers of the word, blessings for obedience, Christ's obedience, obeying God rather than men, and examples of obedience.
Old age: Old age is spoken of throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on honoring the aged, God's care in old age, wisdom and age, instructions to older believers, the length of life, and examples of the old.
Omnipotence of God: The omnipotence of God is his unlimited power. God is the Almighty, who made heaven and earth by his power and does whatever he pleases; nothing is too hard for him, and with him all things are possible.
Omnipresence of God: The omnipresence of God is the teaching that God is present everywhere. The word is not in the Bible; this page lists the verses that describe God as filling heaven and earth and as near to all.
Omniscience of God: The omniscience of God is the teaching that God knows all things. The word is not in the Bible; this page lists the verses that describe God as knowing every heart, thought, and action, and the future.
Oppression: Oppression is the cruel or unjust use of power over others. Those who oppress the poor and weak are condemned, and God is the defender of the oppressed.
Parables of Jesus: The parables of Jesus are short stories he told to teach. This page lists verses on why Jesus spoke in parables and passages from some of the best-known parables.
Parenting: Parenting is the raising and training of children. This page lists verses on teaching and training children, discipline, not provoking children, providing for a family, praying for children, favoring one child, and God as a parent.
Partiality: Partiality is favoritism, treating people unequally because of wealth, status or appearance. God is no respecter of persons, and believers and judges are forbidden to show respect of persons.
Passover: The Passover is the feast commemorating God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt, when the LORD passed over the houses marked with the blood of the lamb. Jesus ate the Passover with his disciples on the night before his death, and Christ is called our Passover, sacrificed for us.
Patience: Patience is listed among the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22. This page lists verses on patience, waiting on the Lord, patience in suffering, and God's patience.
Paul: Paul, also called Saul of Tarsus, was a Pharisee who persecuted the church until the risen Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus. He became an apostle to the Gentiles, made missionary journeys, wrote many of the New Testament letters, and was taken to Rome as a prisoner.
Peace: Peace is listed among the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22. This page lists verses on peace from God, peace with God, Jesus on peace, and living at peace with others.
Pentecost: Pentecost is the Feast of Weeks, the harvest festival held fifty days after Passover. On the day of Pentecost after Jesus' ascension the Holy Spirit was poured out on the disciples, Peter preached, and about three thousand were baptized.
Persecution: Persecution of God's people is recorded across Scripture and foretold by Jesus. This page lists verses on Jesus' teaching on persecution, responding to persecutors, accounts of persecution, and endurance.
Peter: Peter, also called Simon and Cephas, was a fisherman of Galilee called by Jesus to be one of the twelve apostles. He confessed Jesus as the Christ, denied him three times, and after the resurrection became a leading preacher in the early church.
Pharisees and Sadducees: The Pharisees and Sadducees were Jewish religious parties of Jesus' day who disagreed over the resurrection, angels, and spirits. This page lists verses on what each group believed and practiced, their questions to Jesus, Jesus' answers and warnings to them, and Pharisees named in the New Testament.
Plans and the future: Plans and the future are in the Lord's hands: a man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps. Diligent planning, counting the cost, and seeking counsel are wise, and plans are to be made subject to God's will, since no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
Polygamy: Polygamy is marriage to more than one wife at a time. Marriage was made the union of a man and his wife as one flesh, the king was forbidden to multiply wives, and an overseer must be the husband of one wife; the polygamous households of patriarchs and kings are recorded along with their rivalries.
Pornography: Pornography is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to lust, guarding the eyes, purity of mind, and sexual immorality.
Poverty: Poverty and care for the poor are frequent subjects in the law, the Proverbs, the Gospels and the letters. This page lists those verses.
Praise: Praise is speaking and singing of God's greatness. This page lists verses calling for praise, praise in song, songs of praise in Scripture, reasons given for praise, the sacrifice of praise, and praise in heaven.
Prayer: Prayer is speaking to God. This page lists verses on prayer, including Jesus' teaching on prayer, accounts of Jesus praying, instructions in the Old Testament and the New Testament letters, answered prayer, confessing sin, and giving thanks for food.
Preaching: Preaching is proclaiming God's word and the good news of Jesus Christ. This page lists verses on the call to preach the word, Jesus' preaching, messengers sent to proclaim, preaching Christ crucified, boldness and sincerity in preaching, and the power of the word preached.
Predestination: Predestination is the teaching that God determines beforehand, drawn from passages that speak of God predestinating, electing, choosing, and foreknowing. Christian traditions understand these passages in different ways; this page lists the passages that use these words.
Pregnancy and babies: Pregnancy and babies are gifts of the Lord: children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. God forms each child in the womb and knows them before birth, and parents brought their children to be presented and dedicated to the Lord.
Pride: Pride is warned against throughout Scripture. This page lists verses on God's opposition to the proud, pride before a fall, boasting, and accounts of pride in Scripture.
Priesthood: The priesthood is the office of the priests who served at the tabernacle and temple, chiefly the descendants of Aaron from the tribe of Levi. Jesus is the great high priest, and believers are a royal priesthood.
Prophecy: Prophecy is a message from God spoken through a prophet, including warnings, calls to repentance, and predictions of future events; the New Testament also lists prophecy among the gifts of the Spirit.
Prosperity of the wicked: The prosperity of the wicked troubled Job, Jeremiah, Habakkuk and the psalmists, and God answers that their success is brief and their end is sure. This page lists verses on asking why the wicked prosper, envy in Psalm 73, not fretting, their end, riches that do not last, and the better portion of the righteous.
Protection: Protection is God's keeping of his people. He is their refuge, fortress and shield, keeps them from evil, sends his angels to guard them, and preserves their going out and coming in.
Provision: Provision is God's supplying of what his people need. God gives daily bread, feeds the birds and clothes the grass, and supplies every need of those who seek first his kingdom.
Prudence: Prudence is careful, sensible judgment in what one says and does. This page lists verses on foreseeing danger, thinking before acting, guarded speech, seeking counsel, caution with pledges and debts, discretion, and walking wisely.
Purgatory: Purgatory is not named in the Bible; it is the teaching of the Catholic Church, held in a related form by the Orthodox churches and rejected by Protestant churches, that those who die in God's grace undergo a final purification before entering heaven. Catholic teaching also cites 2 Maccabees 12, a book outside the Protestant canon, and the passages cited for and against the doctrine are listed below.
Purpose: Purpose refers both to God's plans, which cannot be thwarted, and to the ends for which people are made. People are created for God's glory and for good works.
Racism: Racism is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to the common origin of all people, God's impartiality, and unity in Christ.
Rashness: Rashness is speaking or acting in haste without thought, and it leads to folly, want and regret. This page lists verses on hasty words, quick anger, rash vows, the outcome of haste, thinking before acting, and rash acts and their cost.
Redemption: Redemption is buying back or setting free by the payment of a price; it is used of freeing land and people under the Law of Moses, of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and of salvation through the blood of Christ.
Reincarnation: Reincarnation, the belief that a soul is reborn into a new body after death, is not taught in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to dying once, the judgment after death, and the resurrection of the dead.
Rejection: Rejection includes Jesus being rejected by men, God's people being rejected or hated by others, and people rejecting God and his word. God promises not to forsake his own.
Religion: Religion that God accepts is shown in caring for the needy, keeping oneself unspotted from the world, and obeying from the heart, while outward ritual without these is rejected. This page lists verses on pure religion, offerings without obedience, worship with the lips only, outward show, a form of godliness, and worship in spirit and truth.
Repentance: Repentance, turning away from sin to God, is preached by the prophets, John the Baptist, Jesus and the apostles. This page lists those verses.
Respect: Respect is the honor given to others. Believers are to honor all men, prefer one another in honor, rise up before the hoary head, render honor to whom honor is due and esteem those who labor over them; the wife is to reverence her husband and the husband to give honor to the wife.
Rest: Rest is introduced in Scripture when God rested on the seventh day. This page lists verses on God's rest at creation, the Sabbath command, Jesus' invitation to rest, rest in God, and the rest promised to God's people.
Resurrection of Jesus: The resurrection of Jesus is his rising from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. This page lists the predictions, the empty tomb accounts, the appearances, and statements in the letters.
Resurrection of the dead: The resurrection of the dead is the raising of the dead to life. This page lists verses on the resurrection in the Old Testament, Jesus' teaching, Acts, Paul's letters, and Revelation.
Revenge: Revenge is addressed in both Testaments. This page lists verses on vengeance belonging to God, not repaying evil for evil, Jesus' teaching, overcoming evil with good, and examples.
Revival: Revival is the renewal of spiritual life among God's people. God promises to hear and heal the land of a people who humble themselves, pray, seek his face and turn from their wicked ways, and the psalmists and prophets prayed for him to revive his work and pour out his Spirit.
Rewards: Rewards are blessings God promises for faithfulness, including treasure in heaven and crowns. Each person will be rewarded according to their works.
Righteousness: Righteousness is being right and just, used of God's own perfect justice, of living according to his commands, and of the righteousness that God gives through faith.
Ruth: Ruth was a Moabite widow who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi and came with her to Bethlehem. She married Boaz and became the great-grandmother of King David.
Sabbath: Sabbath is the seventh day of rest given in the Old Testament. This page lists verses on the Sabbath at creation, in the commandments, as a sign, Jesus and the Sabbath, the Sabbath in the letters, and the first day of the week.
Sacrifice: A sacrifice is an offering presented to God, especially the animal and grain offerings of the Law of Moses. The death of Christ is a sacrifice for sin offered once for all, and believers offer spiritual sacrifices.
Saints: Saints are those set apart as holy to God, and all believers are called saints and are to walk as becometh saints. Christian traditions differ on the place of departed saints, including whether they may be venerated or asked to pray; the cloud of witnesses, the prayers of saints before the throne, and the one mediator between God and men are central passages in that discussion.
Salvation: Salvation is a central subject of the New Testament. This page lists verses on how salvation is described, the role of faith and grace, and Jesus as the way.
Samuel: Samuel was the son of Hannah, given to the LORD's service from childhood, who became prophet and judge over Israel. He anointed Saul and then David as king.
Sanctification: Sanctification is being made holy or set apart for God. This page lists verses on sanctification as God's will, being sanctified through Christ, the work of the Spirit, the word of God, and growing in holiness.
Sarah: Sarah, first called Sarai, was the wife of Abraham. Barren into old age, she gave birth to Isaac as God had promised.
Satan: Satan is named in both the Old and New Testaments and is also called the devil. This page lists verses on Satan's names and works, Satan in the Old Testament, the temptation of Jesus, resisting the devil, and Satan's defeat.
Scripture: Scripture is the Bible's word for its own writings. This page lists verses on Scripture as given by God, its power and purpose, its lasting nature, reading and keeping it, reading it aloud to the people, and not adding to or taking from it.
Second Coming: The Second Coming is the return of Jesus promised in the Gospels, Acts and the letters. This page lists those verses.
Seeking God: Seeking God is turning to Him with the whole heart in prayer, worship, and obedience. Those who seek Him with all their heart find Him, and believers are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Self-control: Self-control is listed among the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:23. This page lists verses on self-control, discipline of the body, ruling one's spirit and tongue, and sober-mindedness.
Self-deception: Self-deception is believing what is false about oneself, and the heart is deceitful above all things. This page lists verses on warnings not to be deceived, thinking oneself to be something, hearing without doing, being clean in one's own eyes, the deceitful heart, and false security.
Self-defense: Self-defense is the protection of oneself or others from harm. The Bible includes laws on defending a household, accounts of defense against attackers, and Jesus's teaching on non-retaliation.
Self-denial: Self-denial is setting aside one's own wants and comforts to follow Christ and serve others. This page lists verses on taking up the cross, counting the cost, putting others first, giving up rights for the gospel, mastering the body, and examples of self-denial.
Self-examination: Self-examination is testing one's own heart and ways, and believers are told to examine themselves while asking God to search them. This page lists verses on examining yourselves, asking God to search the heart, God who tries the heart, considering one's ways, judging oneself first, and a clear conscience.
Self-harm: Self-harm is not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that speak to the value of the body, God's care for the hurting, the cutting of the flesh described in Scripture, and hope.
Self-righteousness: Self-righteousness is trusting in one's own goodness and looking down on others. This page lists verses on those who trusted in themselves, being right in one's own eyes, holier-than-thou attitudes, claiming to be without sin, and one's own righteousness set beside righteousness from God.
Sermon on the Mount: The Sermon on the Mount is the teaching of Jesus recorded in Matthew 5 to 7. This page lists verses from the sermon, from the Beatitudes and salt and light to the Golden Rule and the wise and foolish builders.
Service: Service is serving God and others. This page lists verses on Jesus coming to serve, greatness through serving, serving one another, serving the Lord, and serving the least.
Sex: Sex is the union of husband and wife, created by God and given within marriage. The two become one flesh, husband and wife owe each other due benevolence, and the marriage bed is to be kept undefiled.
Sexual immorality: Sexual immorality, or fornication, is forbidden, and believers are called to flee it. This page lists verses on adultery, sex outside marriage, and the call to holiness.
Shame: Shame is the disgrace and exposure that follow sin, and also the reproach suffered by God's people. Shame entered with the fall, Christ endured shame, and those who trust God are not put to shame.
Shepherd: Shepherd is a name for the Lord, who leads, feeds, carries and protects his flock. Jesus is the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep and seeks the lost, and the leaders of the church are to shepherd his flock.
Siblings: Siblings are brothers and sisters. A brother is born for adversity and brethren are to dwell together in unity; sibling rivalry runs from Cain and Abel to Joseph and his brothers, and Jacob with Esau and Joseph with his brothers were reconciled.
Sin: Sin, wrongdoing against God, is described from the third chapter of Genesis onward. This page lists verses on its origin, its universality, God's knowledge of it, its consequences, and its forgiveness.
Sincerity: Sincerity is being genuine and without pretense before God and others. This page lists verses on serving God in sincerity, love without hypocrisy, sincere speech, being without guile, serving from the heart, and truth in the inward parts.
Singleness: Singleness is the state of being unmarried, addressed mainly by Paul and by Jesus. This page lists verses on remaining unmarried, God's care for the unmarried, self-control, and companionship.
Slavery: Slavery is the holding of people as bondservants. The Law of Moses regulated Hebrew and foreign servants and made stealing a man a capital crime; the New Testament instructs servants and masters, Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon as a brother beloved, and in Christ there is neither bond nor free.
Sleep: Sleep is the rest God gives the body each night. The Lord gives His beloved sleep and keeps watch without slumbering, the love of sleep leads to poverty, and the death of believers is spoken of as falling asleep.
Sodom and Gomorrah: Sodom and Gomorrah were cities of the plain that the Lord destroyed with brimstone and fire for their wickedness, after Abraham interceded and Lot was brought out. Christian traditions differ on what the sin of Sodom chiefly was: Genesis 19 records the men of the city demanding to know Lot's guests, Ezekiel names pride, fulness of bread and neglect of the poor and needy, and Jude names fornication and going after strange flesh.
Solomon: Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba who succeeded David as king of Israel. He was known for the wisdom God gave him and for building the temple in Jerusalem, and in old age his foreign wives turned his heart after other gods.
Soul: The soul (Hebrew nephesh, Greek psyche) is the life or inner self of a person, and often the whole living being. It is made by God, longs for God, and is in need of salvation.
Sovereignty of God: The sovereignty of God refers to God's rule over all things. This page lists verses on God reigning, God's plans standing, God over nations and rulers, and God working in all things.
Sowing and reaping: Sowing and reaping is the principle that deeds bear a corresponding harvest. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap: sowing to the flesh brings corruption, sowing to the Spirit brings life everlasting, and those who sow bountifully reap bountifully.
Speaking in tongues: Speaking in tongues is described in the Gospel of Mark, the book of Acts, and Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. This page lists those verses.
Speech: Speech is the use of words, for good or for harm. This page lists verses on the power of the tongue, words that build up, restraining the tongue, coarse and careless words, and words that come from the heart.
Spiritual gifts: Spiritual gifts are abilities given by the Holy Spirit. This page lists the verses that name and describe the gifts, verses on gifts and love, and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost.
Spiritual growth: Spiritual growth is increasing in grace, in the knowledge of Christ, and in maturity of faith. This page lists verses on growing in grace, moving from milk to solid food, growing up into Christ, pressing on, bearing fruit, the call to be perfect, and God completing his work in believers.
Spiritual warfare: Spiritual warfare is a term for the struggle against spiritual evil described in the New Testament. This page lists verses on the struggle, the armor of God, weapons and resistance, and victory.
Sports and competition: Sports and competition as organized games are not named in the Bible. This page lists the verses that use running, wrestling, and athletic contests as pictures of the Christian life, along with verses on bodily training, strength, and rivalry.
Steadfastness: Steadfastness is standing firm in faith and in a settled choice to follow God. This page lists verses on choosing whom to serve, standing fast, being unmovable, holding fast, continuing to the end, and the unstable and double-minded.
Stealing: Stealing is forbidden in the Ten Commandments. This page lists verses on the commandment, working instead of stealing, restitution, sayings in Proverbs, dishonest gain, and thieves.
Stewardship: Stewardship is faithfully managing what God has entrusted, since everything belongs to him and each person will give account. This page lists verses on God's ownership of all things, faithful stewards, the parables of entrusted money, the unjust steward, stewarding God's gifts, and giving account.
Stewardship of creation: Stewardship of creation concerns humanity's relationship to the earth God made. This page lists verses on the earth belonging to the Lord, dominion and tending the garden, rest for the land, care for animals and trees, creation showing God's glory, and the future of creation.
Strength: Strength is physical, moral and spiritual power. God is the source of strength for the weak and the weary.
Stumbling block: A stumbling block is anything that causes another person to fall into sin or turn from faith. This page lists verses on not putting a stumbling block before others, care for the weaker brother, warnings against causing others to stumble, cutting off what causes offense, the stumbling block of iniquity, the stone of stumbling, and being kept from stumbling.
Success: Success is prosperity or the accomplishment of one's work, which comes from God's blessing, obedience to his word and diligence. Jesus warned against gaining the world while losing one's soul.
Suffering: Suffering is addressed throughout Scripture, from Job to the letters of Peter. This page lists verses on trials, God's presence in affliction, the sufferings of Christ, Job's suffering, and future glory.
Suicide: Suicide is not addressed by name in the Bible. This page lists verses on the value of life, God's nearness to the brokenhearted, and the accounts of people in Scripture who took or nearly took their own lives.
Tattoos: Tattoos are mentioned once, in the law of Leviticus. This page lists that verse and verses on the body and outward appearance.
Taxes: Taxes are payments required by a government. Israel and Rome levied taxes, and believers are told to pay what is owed to rulers.
Temple: The temple was the house of God in Jerusalem, first built by Solomon in place of the tabernacle, destroyed by Babylon, and later rebuilt; the New Testament also calls Jesus' body, the church, and the believer's body a temple.
Temptation: Temptation is enticement to sin. This page lists verses on the first temptation, where temptation comes from, Jesus being tempted, enduring and resisting temptation, and watching and praying.
Ten Commandments: The Ten Commandments are given in Exodus 20 and repeated in Deuteronomy 5. This page lists verses with the commandments, the giving of the tablets, and Jesus and the apostles on the commandments.
Thankfulness: Thankfulness is giving thanks to God. This page lists verses on giving thanks in everything, thanksgiving in the Psalms, thankful hearts, Jesus giving thanks, and thankfulness and ingratitude.
Time: Time is in the hand of God, who is eternal and above it. To every thing there is a season, the days of man are numbered and few, and believers are to redeem the time and walk wisely.
Tithing: Tithing is giving a tenth. This page lists verses on tithes before the Law, the tithe in the Law of Moses, Malachi, Jesus' words on tithing, and giving in the New Testament.
Travel: Travel is under the LORD's care: he keeps his people in their going out and coming in, goes with them on the way and orders their steps. Believers are to make their plans subject to God's will and to pray for a safe journey.
Trinity: Trinity is not a word used in the Bible. This page lists verses that speak of God as one and that name the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit together.
Triumphal entry: The triumphal entry was Jesus' entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey as crowds spread their garments and palm branches on the road and cried Hosanna, fulfilling the prophecy of Zechariah. Many churches remember it on Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week.
Trusting God: Trusting God is a frequent call in the Psalms and Proverbs. This page lists verses on trusting the Lord, the blessing of those who trust Him, trust in times of fear, not trusting in man, and God's care.
Truth: Truth is what is real, right and trustworthy. God is the God of truth who cannot lie, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, and the word of God is truth.
Twelve apostles: The twelve apostles were the men Jesus chose to be with him, to preach and to be his witnesses. Matthias was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot, and the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb are written on the foundations of the New Jerusalem.
Unequally yoked: To be unequally yoked is to be bound together with an unbeliever. Believers are not to be yoked with unbelievers and are to marry only in the Lord, and Israel was forbidden to intermarry with nations that would turn their hearts after other gods. A believer already married to an unbeliever who is pleased to dwell with him or her is not to depart.
Unforgivable sin: The unforgivable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which Jesus said shall not be forgiven in this world or the world to come. Christian traditions differ on what it is, some identifying it with attributing the Spirit's work to Satan, as the Pharisees did, and others with final, persistent unbelief, and they differ on how it relates to the warnings in Hebrews and 1 John.
Unity: Unity is oneness among God's people. It is the work of Christ and the Spirit, and the church is called to keep it in love and humility.
Victory: Victory belongs to the Lord. Christ has overcome the world and triumphed over sin and death, and believers are more than conquerors through Him and overcome the world by faith.
Violence: Violence is the use of force to harm others. Violence and those who love it are condemned, and a time is coming when violence will end.
Vows and oaths: Vows and oaths are solemn commitments: a vow is a promise made to God, and an oath is a sworn statement calling on God as witness. Vows are to be kept, and speech is to be plain and truthful.
Waiting on God: Waiting on God is patiently trusting and hoping in the Lord for his help and timing. Waiting is linked with renewed strength, blessing and God's faithfulness to his promises.
Walking with God: Walking with God is living daily in fellowship with him and obedience to him, as Enoch and Noah did. This page lists verses on those who walked with God, walking in his ways, walking in the Spirit, walking in the light, walking in Christ, in love and by faith, and walking worthy of the calling.
War: War is armed conflict between peoples. This page lists verses on God and battle, laws for war in Israel, a time for war, soldiers in the New Testament, Jesus' words on wars and the sword, and the end of war.
Watchfulness: Watchfulness is staying alert and sober in prayer, against temptation, and in readiness for the Lord's return. This page lists verses on watching and praying, being sober and vigilant, taking heed to oneself, watching for the Lord's coming, and watchmen.
Widows and orphans: Widows and orphans are under God's particular care and protection. This page lists verses on God's care for them, commands to protect them, care for widows in the church, and examples in Scripture.
Wisdom: Wisdom is a major theme of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job. This page lists verses on the fear of the Lord, asking God for wisdom, the value of wisdom, wisdom from above, and walking wisely.
Witchcraft: Witchcraft and other occult practices such as divination, sorcery and consulting the dead are forbidden in both the Old and New Testaments. This page lists those verses.
Wives: Wives are addressed in the New Testament letters, which call them to submit to and reverence their husbands, and in Proverbs 31, which describes a virtuous woman. This page lists the Bible's instructions to wives and its descriptions of a good wife.
Women: Women are created in the image of God together with men and are heirs together with them of the grace of life. A woman that feareth the Lord is praised, and women followed Jesus, ministered to him and were the first witnesses of his resurrection.
Women in ministry: Women in ministry is a question on which Christian traditions differ: some hold that the office of overseer and authoritative teaching in the church belong to men, citing the passages on women keeping silence and not teaching over a man. Others point to women in Scripture who prophesied, judged, taught and labored with Paul in the gospel, and the passages each side relies on are listed below.
Work: Work is part of the creation account and is addressed throughout Scripture. This page lists verses on work in creation, working as for the Lord, diligence, providing for oneself and others, fair treatment of workers, and enjoying one's work.
Worldliness: Worldliness is love for the world and its desires in place of love for God. This page lists verses on not loving the world, not being conformed to it, the cares and riches of this world, lovers of pleasure, pleasures that do not satisfy, and living as strangers in the world.
Worship: Worship is honoring and adoring God. This page lists verses on worship in spirit and truth, worshipping God alone, calls to worship in the Psalms, longing for God's house, gathering to worship, worship in heaven, and worship as a living sacrifice.
Wrath of God: The wrath of God is God's anger against sin and ungodliness, revealed in judgment and in a coming day of wrath, from which believers are delivered through Christ.
Year of Jubilee: The Year of Jubilee was every fiftieth year, when liberty was proclaimed, land returned to its families and Hebrew servants went free, and every seventh year the land rested and debts were released. This page lists verses on the sabbath year for the land, the release of debts and servants, the jubilee, the return of land, neglect of these years, and the acceptable year of the Lord.
Youth: Youth is the years of young adulthood. Young people are told to remember God and to pursue purity and humility, setting an example.
Zeal: Zeal is wholehearted eagerness for God and for doing good, and lukewarmness is its absence. This page lists verses on fervent service, zeal for the Lord and his house, eagerness for what is good, the zeal of the Lord, lukewarmness, and zeal without knowledge.
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