Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 849 helpful votes And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 474 helpful votes Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Romans 1:16 ESV / 236 helpful votes For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 186 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulStrive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 185 helpful votes Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
Matthew 24:10-20 ESV / 185 helpful votes And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. ...
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 155 helpful votes “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
John 3:16 ESV / 140 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 130 helpful votes But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
John 4:34 ESV / 129 helpful votes Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 123 helpful votes And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Psalm 16:8-11 ESV / 118 helpful votes I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
John 14:6 ESV / 93 helpful votes Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 1:1 ESV / 92 helpful votes In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Peter 4:1 ESV / 90 helpful votes Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
John 5:31 ESV / 87 helpful votes If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 84 helpful votes For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 75 helpful votes For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Acts 2:38 ESV / 74 helpful votes And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 24:14 ESV / 72 helpful votes And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 68 helpful votes Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 60 helpful votes Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Psalm 96:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Acts 6:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 57 helpful votes But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 56 helpful votes Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 54 helpful votes But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Revelation 14:6 ESV / 50 helpful votes Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 45 helpful votes Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 45 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.
John 8:17-18 ESV / 45 helpful votes In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 45 helpful votes Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 44 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 44 helpful votes A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 43 helpful votes For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...
Romans 5:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 8:31-32 ESV / 43 helpful votes So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 1:14 ESV / 43 helpful votes And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Romans 10:14-15 ESV / 42 helpful votes How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Mark 13:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
James 1:22 ESV / 41 helpful votes But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
John 7:38 ESV / 41 helpful votes Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
James 1:21 ESV / 40 helpful votes Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Acts 12:24 ESV / 40 helpful votes But the word of God increased and multiplied.
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 40 helpful votes “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Psalm 118:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,
Romans 15:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
John 20:21 ESV / 38 helpful votes Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 10:28-30 ESV / 38 helpful votes I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”
John 8:32 ESV / 38 helpful votes And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Revelation 19:12-16 ESV / 37 helpful votes His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Luke 11:28 ESV / 37 helpful votes But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Exodus 20:2-21 ESV / 37 helpful votes “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ...
Acts 1:8 ESV / 35 helpful votes But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Matthew 28:20 ESV / 35 helpful votes Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Acts 19:20 ESV / 34 helpful votes So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 34 helpful votes “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Psalm 17:8-11 ESV / 34 helpful votes Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly. They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.
John 15:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 6:40-41 ESV / 32 helpful votes For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
John 1:41 ESV / 31 helpful votes He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 31 helpful votes And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Revelation 22:1-5 ESV / 30 helpful votes Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Revelation 19:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
John 15:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 28 helpful votes Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ...
Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 28 helpful votes Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...
Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 15:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 25 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 21:1-38 ESV / 25 helpful votes Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, ...
John 14:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Luke 2:1-52 ESV / 24 helpful votes In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. ...
Mark 16:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 23 helpful votes For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...
Romans 6:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 15:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 21 helpful votes If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 Corinthians 9:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
John 15:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Matthew 9:37 ESV / 21 helpful votes Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
Matthew 5:11-12 ESV / 21 helpful votes “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 19 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 ...
Acts 2:41 ESV / 19 helpful votes So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Luke 12:8-9 ESV / 19 helpful votes “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
Luke 8:1-56 ESV / 19 helpful votes Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means. And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. ...
Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 19 helpful votes A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 18 helpful votes Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
Luke 12:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”