What Does the Bible Say About Alignment With God?

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 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.

James 4:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Genesis 11:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ...

1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

24 Bible Verses about Alignment With God

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 11:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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24 Bible Verses about Alignment With God

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Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 11:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote