What Does the Bible Say About Media?

Luke 11:34 ESV / 227 helpful votes

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Psalm 101:3-4 ESV / 116 helpful votes

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Isaiah 52:7 ESV / 101 helpful votes

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 77 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

James 3:5-11 ESV / 57 helpful votes

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. ...

Matthew 6:22-23 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Mark 9:43-47 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,

Ephesians 5:19-20 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Isaiah 21:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...

Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Luke 1:1-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Romans 6:16-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ...

John 8:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Luke 21:34-36 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 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 / 7 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. ...

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 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 ...

James 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 4 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. ...

Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. ...

Psalm 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Esther 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

39 Bible Verses about Media

Luke 11:34 ESV / 227 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 165 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 101:3-4 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 52:7 ESV / 101 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:5-11 ESV / 57 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:22-23 ESV / 54 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:43-47 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:19-20 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 21:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:1-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:16-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:34-36 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Esther 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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