Jesus on Gay People

Go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:22

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Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.

Luke 12:15

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Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:23, Mark 10:23, Luke 18:24

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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25

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What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Luke 15:15

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No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 5:24, Luke 13

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Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God

Luke 6:20

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Woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

Luke 6:24

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The rich man died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. Abraham said, “Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.”

Luke 16:22-25

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Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Luke 6:25

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:19-21

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Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Matthew 5:42

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If you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

Luke 6:34

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Give, and it will be given.

Luke 6:38

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Those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

Luke 14:33

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Jesus said, “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.” Jesus said, “You have judged correctly.”

Luke 7:41-43

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Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:25-33, Luke 12:22-31

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Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.

Luke 6:21

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Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra shirt.

Mark 5:8-9, Luke 9:3

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Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

Luke 10:34

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Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!

Luke 12:24-28

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Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do.

Matthew 6:1-2

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When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:3-4

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Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Mark 12:41-44, Luke 21:1-4

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The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Matthew 13:22, Mark 4:18-19, Luke 8:14

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Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

Luke 21:34

Forgive and you will be forgiven.

Luke 6:37

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If you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.

Mark 11:25

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We forgive everyone who sins against us.

Luke 11:4

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Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”

Matthew 21-22

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Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying “I repent,” you must forgive them.

Luke 17:4

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The Pharisees brought in a woman to Jesus and said, “This woman was caught in the act of adultery. Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you say?” Jesus said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Those who heard began to go away one at a time. Jesus asked, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared.

John 8:3-11

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If you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Matthew 6:14-15

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Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Luke 23:34

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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:3-5, Luke 41-42

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Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Matthew 7:1-2, Luke 6:37

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Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.

Luke 6:37

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The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son.

John 5:22

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If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.

John 20:23

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Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.

John 7:24

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Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

Matthew 5:25-26, Luke 12:58-59

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If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 5:23-24

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Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.

Matthew 12:12, Mark 3:24-25, Luke 11:17

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If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Matthew 18:15-17

If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

Matthew 5:39-40

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You have heard that it was said, “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.” But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.

Matthew 5:38-39

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Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.

Luke 6:27-30

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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.

Luke 6:32-33

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew 5:9

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Be at peace with each other.

Mark 9:50

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When you enter a house, first say, “Peace to this house.” If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them.

Luke 10:5-6

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Peace be with you.

Luke 24:36, John 20:19, John 20:21, John 20:26

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Go in peace.

Luke 7:50, Luke 8:48

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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

John 14:27

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Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:34

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”

Matthew 26:52

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Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39

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Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:51

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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5

When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors. When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

Luke 14:12-14

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When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor.

Luke 14:8

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Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Matthew 20:26-28

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The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Matthew 23:11-12, Mark 10:43-44, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14

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Will a servant be thanked because he did what he was told to do? When you have done everything you were told to do, you should say, “We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.”

Luke 17:9-10

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The greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Luke 22:26-27

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Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 13:14-15

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Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3-5, Luke 18:17

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Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Matthew 19:30, Mark 10:31, Luke 13:30

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The last will be first, and the first will be last.

Matthew 20:16

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I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

John 9:39-41

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Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.

Matthew 21:32

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The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.” So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matthew 22:8-10, Luke 14:16-24

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Everything they do is done for people to see: they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.

Matthew 23:5-7

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They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.

Mark 12:38-40

When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors. When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

Luke 14:12-14

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When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor.

Luke 14:8

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Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Matthew 20:26-28

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The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Matthew 23:11-12, Mark 10:43-44, Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14

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Will a servant be thanked because he did what he was told to do? When you have done everything you were told to do, you should say, “We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.”

Luke 17:9-10

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The greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Luke 22:26-27

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Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 13:14-15

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Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:3-5, Luke 18:17

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Many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Matthew 19:30, Mark 10:31, Luke 13:30

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The last will be first, and the first will be last.

Matthew 20:16

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I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

John 9:39-41

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Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.

Matthew 21:32

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The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.” So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matthew 22:8-10, Luke 14:16-24

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Everything they do is done for people to see: they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.

Matthew 23:5-7

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They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.

Mark 12:38-40

Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do what I say?

Luke 6:46

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Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:21

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Many will say to me on that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?” Then I will tell them plainly, “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!”

Matthew 7:22-23

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If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

John 8:31-32

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You are my friends if you do what I command.

John 15:14

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Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.

John 8:51

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If you love me, keep my commands. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

John 14:15-21

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Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.

John 14:23-24

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Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

Matthew 7:24-27, Luke 6:47-49

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Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

Luke 11:28

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If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.

John 12:48-49

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If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

John 15:10-11

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Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.

Matthew 16:23, Mark 8:33

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If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

Matthew 18:6-7, Luke 17:1-2

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Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Matthew 24:35, Luke 21:33

Now Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.” He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

Luke 8:21, Matthew 20:47-50, Mark 3:32-35

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If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:26

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Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 10:37

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From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.

Luke 12:52-53

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Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:29-30, Luke 18:29-30

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At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25

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The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

Luke 20:34-35

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The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.

Matthew 19:10-12

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Do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

Matthew 23:9

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Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Matthew 8:21-22, Luke 59-60

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Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.” Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

Luke 9:61-62

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You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. Everyone will hate you because of me. But not a hair of your head will perish. Stand firm, and you will win life.

Luke 21:16

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Even Jesus’s own brothers did not believe in him.

John 7:5

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Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Mark 3:20-21

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When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”

John 19:26-27

Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.

Matthew 20:21

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Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.

Matthew 17:20

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If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it will obey you.

Luke 17:6

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Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these.

John 14:12

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If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

Matthew 20:22

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I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

John 14:13-14

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Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.

Matthew 18:19-20

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Stop doubting and believe.

John 20:27

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Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

John 20:29

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God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

John 3:17-18

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Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 6:28-29

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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

John 3:36

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Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.

John 6:47

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Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

John 6:40

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If you believe, you will see the glory of God.

John 11:40

Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear the voice of the Son of Man and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.

John 5:28-29

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When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Mark 13:7, Matthew 24:6, Luke 21:6

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Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Mark 13:8, Matthew 24:7-8, Luke 21:10-11

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You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

Mark 13:9, Luke 21:12

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This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 24:14, Mark 13:10

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When you see “the abomination that causes desolation” standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.

Mark 13:14-15, Matthew 24:15-18, Luke 21:20-21

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How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations.

Luke 21:23-24

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Those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now—and never to be equaled again.

Mark 13:19, Matthew 24:21

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Following that distress, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.

Mark 13:24-25, Matthew 24:29, Luke 21:25-26

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At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

Mark 13:26-27, Matthew 24:31

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I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.

Matthew 12:35-37

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Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

Mark 13:30, Matthew 24:34, Luke 21:32

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About that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.

Mark 13:32-33, Matthew 24:36

You have never heard the Father’s voice nor seen his form.

John 5:37

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No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God.

John 1:18

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No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

John 6:46

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I am God’s Son.

John 10:36

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I and the Father are one.

John 10:30

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The Father is in me, and I in the Father.

John 10:38

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With God all things are possible.

Matthew 19:26, Luke 18:27

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No word from God will ever fail.

Luke 1:37

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You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Matthew 22:29

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No one is good—except God alone.

Luke 18:19

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Do not put the Lord your God to the test.

Luke 4:12

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He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.

Luke 20:38

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Matthew 27:46

You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Matthew 5:43-44

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Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.

Matthew 5:11

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If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Matthew 5:46-47

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When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another.

Matthew 10:23

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The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

John 16:2

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For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Matthew 16:25-26

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Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 12:25

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Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Matthew 16:24

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Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 10:38, Luke 14:14

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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:29-30

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Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

Luke 6:22

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Do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Luke 12:4-5, Matthew 10:28

All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 14:25-26

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When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.

John 15:26

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When the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

John 16:13

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I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment.

John 16:7-8

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He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

John 20:22

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If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Luke 11:13

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Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Mark 13:11, Luke 12:11, Luke 21:14-15

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Every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

Matthew 12:31

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Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.

Mark 3:29, Luke 12:10

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Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 12:32

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David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.’”

Mark 12:36

While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:10-13, Mark 2:15-17, Luke 5:29-32

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Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 15:1-2

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There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent

Luke 15:7

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There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Luke 15:10

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Jesus said to the healed disabled man, “Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

John 5:14

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Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

John 8:34

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All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:7-10

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The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.”

Matthew 11:19, Luke 7:34
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Go now and leave your life of sin.

John 8:11

I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 6:48-51

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Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

John 6:53

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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

John 6:54

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My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

John 6:55

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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

John 6:56

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The one who feeds on me will live because of me.

John 6:57

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Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.

John 6:58

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Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” By this he meant the Spirit.

John 7:37-39

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 12:34

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A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

Matthew 12:35

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An evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Luke 6:45

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Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

John 3:19-20

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Your Father in heaven causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 5:45

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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Matthew 7:11, Luke 11:13

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The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Matthew 13:41

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law.

Matthew 5:17-18

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Anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:19-20

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It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

Luke 16:17

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If you want to enter life, keep the commandments: You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 19:17-19, Luke 18:20

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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Matthew 22:37-40, Mark 12:30-31

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Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law.

John 7:19

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 13:34

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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

John 15:12

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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

John 15:9-10

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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 15:13

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This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:17

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Luke 6:36

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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Matthew 5:7

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“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

Luke 10:36-37

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Then the master called the servant in. “You wicked servant,” he said, “I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?” In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.

Matthew 18:32-35

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If you had known what these words mean, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice,” you would not have condemned the innocent.

Matthew 12-7

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:44

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Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply “Yes” or “No”; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

Matthew 5:33-37

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When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart.

Matthew 13:19

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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:13

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My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

John 17:15

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

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When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Matthew 6:7-8

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I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 11:24

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Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

John 16:23-24

The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.

John 20:37

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The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 1:17

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Whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John 3:21

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If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.

John 8:46-47

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Matthew 5:6

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Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:10

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He will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not quarrel or cry out.

Matthew 12:18-19

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Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

Luke 18:7

Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” He replied “A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

Matthew 19:3-6, Mark 10:2-12

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Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.

Matthew 19:8-9

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It has been said, “Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.” But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:31-32, Luke 16:18

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.

Matthew 23:23

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Do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Matthew 23:3-4

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You hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

Matthew 23:13-15

The man said, “Love your neighbor as yourself. But who is my neighbor?” Jesus said: “A man was attacked by robbers, leaving him half dead. A priest saw the man and passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, saw him, took pity on him and bandaged his wounds and brought him to an inn and took care of him. “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The man said, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

Luke 10:27-36

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Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

Luke 17:17-19

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The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman…But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”…Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony.

John 4:9-39

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.

Matthew 25:35-36

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Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.” He took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 15:36-38, Mark 8:1-8, John 6:5-12

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Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. “Bring them here to me,” he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 14:16-21, Mark 6:37-42, Luke 9:13-17

Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. This is to fulfill what is written in their Law: “They hated me without reason.”

John 15:23-25

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If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

John 15:18

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I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

John 15:19

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Matthew 7:15-20, Luke 6:43-45

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Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.

Matthew 24:11

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Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many.

Mark 5-6

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.

John 20:13

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Do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:10

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A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.

John 3:27

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.

Matthew 4:17

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Repent and believe the good news!

Mark 1:15

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Unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Luke 13:5

They came to him and said, “Teacher, Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not?” He replied, “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

Mark 12:14-17 Matthew 17:24-27, Luke 20:21-25

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Collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

Matthew 17:24-26

When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting.

Matthew 6:16

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When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:17-18

In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.

Matthew 6:12, Luke 6:31

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Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds.

Matthew 5:16

Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12:10-12

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The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Mark 2:27

What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.

Matthew 15:11, Mark 7:15

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Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person.

Matthew 17-20, Mark 7:20-23

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you.

John 15:3-4

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Eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.

Matthew 15:20

You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.” But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment.

Matthew 5:21-22

You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:27-28

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

Matthew 10:8

Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 7:6

You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, “Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.” But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

Matthew 5:33-36

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Matthew 5:8

The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.

Matthew 13:10-11, 15, Mark 4:11-12

Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

John 5:25

When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, “I will return to the house I left.” When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first.

Matthew 12:43-45, Luke 11:24-26