100 Bible Verses about Idle Time (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about idle time, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 19:15 KJV

¹⁵Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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1 Timothy 5:13 KJV

¹³And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

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Ephesians 5:15-16 KJV

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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Proverbs 31:27 KJV

²⁷She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 KJV

¹⁰For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. ¹¹For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. ¹²Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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Matthew 12:36 KJV

³⁶But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

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Proverbs 12:24 KJV

²⁴The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

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Proverbs 12:11 KJV

¹¹He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

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Proverbs 24:30-34 KJV

³⁰I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; ³¹And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. ³²Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. ³³Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding …

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Proverbs 6:6-11 KJV

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. ⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands …

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Ecclesiastes 10:18 KJV

¹⁸By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

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Proverbs 14:23 KJV

²³In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

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Proverbs 18:9 KJV

⁹He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

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Titus 3:14 KJV

¹⁴And let our’s also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

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Titus 1:12 KJV

¹²One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

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1 Peter 4:10 KJV

¹⁰As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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Ephesians 5:15-17 KJV

¹⁵See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, ¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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Proverbs 6:9-11 KJV

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

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Colossians 4:5 KJV

⁵Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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Matthew 25:26-30 KJV

²⁶His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: ²⁷Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. ²⁸Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. …

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Proverbs 13:4 KJV

⁴The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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Proverbs 6:6-8 KJV

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

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Proverbs 12:27 KJV

²⁷The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

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James 1:13-15 KJV

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: ¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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2 Thessalonians 3:11 KJV

¹¹For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

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2 Thessalonians 3:6-12 KJV

⁶Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. ⁷For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; ⁸Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that …

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Luke 12:47 KJV

⁴⁷And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Proverbs 16:27 KJV

²⁷An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

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Proverbs 15:19 KJV

¹⁹The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

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Psalm 34:14 KJV

¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

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2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 KJV

¹¹For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. ¹²Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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Proverbs 20:13 KJV

¹³Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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Titus 2:3-5 KJV

³The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; ⁴That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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2 Thessalonians 3:6 KJV

⁶Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV

⁵Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

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Matthew 22:37-39 KJV

³⁷Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Proverbs 16:27-29 KJV

²⁷An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. ²⁸A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. ²⁹A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

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2 Timothy 4:3 KJV

³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

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2 Timothy 2:12 KJV

¹²If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

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1 Thessalonians 5:14 KJV

¹⁴Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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Revelation 3:14-22 KJV

¹⁴And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; ¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ¹⁷Because thou …

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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James 1:14 KJV

¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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James 1:13 KJV

¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

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2 Timothy 3:8 KJV

⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

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2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 KJV

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Ephesians 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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Matthew 28:20 KJV

²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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Matthew 28:19 KJV

¹⁹Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

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Psalm 119:18 KJV

¹⁸Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

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Revelation 21:8 KJV

⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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1 John 5:1 KJV

¹Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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2 Peter 3:9 KJV

⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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1 Peter 4:3 KJV

³For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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2 Timothy 4:4 KJV

⁴And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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2 Timothy 3:2 KJV

²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Colossians 3:23-24 KJV

²³And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; ²⁴Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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Galatians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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2 Corinthians 11:3 KJV

³But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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Romans 12:11 KJV

¹¹Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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John 14:14 KJV

¹⁴If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

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John 3:1-36 KJV

¹There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: ²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. ³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. …

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Luke 17:28 KJV

²⁸Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

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Luke 10:40-42 KJV

⁴⁰But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. ⁴¹And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: ⁴²But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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Luke 9:2 KJV

²And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

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Luke 4:43 KJV

⁴³And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.

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Mark 16:16 KJV

¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

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Matthew 25:14-30 KJV

¹⁴For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. ¹⁵And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. ¹⁶Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five …

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Proverbs 24:33-34 KJV

³³Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ³⁴So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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Proverbs 23:21 KJV

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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Proverbs 20:4 KJV

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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Proverbs 10:4-5 KJV

⁴He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. ⁵He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

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Proverbs 6:6 KJV

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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Numbers 12:1-16 KJV

¹And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. ²And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. ³(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) ⁴And the Lord spake …

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Revelation 1:3 KJV

³Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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1 John 5:4 KJV

⁴For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

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Hebrews 13:5 KJV

⁵Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Hebrews 10:38 KJV

³⁸Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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1 Timothy 6:20 KJV

²⁰O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

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Colossians 2:12 KJV

¹²Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

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Philippians 1:29 KJV

²⁹For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

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2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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1 Corinthians 15:57 KJV

⁵⁷But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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1 Corinthians 9:1-27 KJV

¹Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? ²If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. ³Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, ⁴Have we not power to eat and to drink? ⁵Have we not …

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1 Corinthians 4:2 KJV

²Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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Romans 11:22 KJV

²²Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Romans 3:4 KJV

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

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Romans 3:1-31 KJV

¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. ³For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? ⁴God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in …

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Acts 5:29 KJV

²⁹Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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John 1:12 KJV

¹²But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

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Luke 1:35 KJV

³⁵And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

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Matthew 24:23-27 KJV

²³Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. ²⁵Behold, I have told you before. ²⁶Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not …

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Matthew 24:4 KJV

⁴And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

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Matthew 22:37-40 KJV

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Matthew 18:1-35 KJV

¹At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? ²And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, ³And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as …

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Matthew 12:1-50 KJV

¹At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. ²But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. ³But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; …

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