100 Bible Verses about Fulfillment

Romans 13:8 ESV / 493 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 466 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 463 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Daniel 10:3 ESV / 419 helpful votes

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Matthew 1:22-23 ESV / 399 helpful votes

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

Mark 1:15 ESV / 383 helpful votes

And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 374 helpful votes

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 330 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 323 helpful votes

“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.

John 19:36 ESV / 320 helpful votes

For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

Ezekiel 12:28 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.”

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 318 helpful votes

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

Ezekiel 12:1-28:26 ESV / 317 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. ...

Romans 13:2 ESV / 297 helpful votes

Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 282 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 274 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 273 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 261 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 250 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Luke 24:44 ESV / 241 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 236 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Galatians 4:4 ESV / 230 helpful votes

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 230 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 229 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 223 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,

1 John 5:3 ESV / 220 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 213 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 209 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 209 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 209 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 208 helpful votes

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

Luke 1:3 ESV / 207 helpful votes

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,

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 206 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Matthew 1:3 ESV / 206 helpful votes

And Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 206 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

John 18:36 ESV / 204 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

Romans 10:4 ESV / 200 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Matthew 1:2 ESV / 195 helpful votes

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 189 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 188 helpful votes

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Psalm 22:16 ESV / 188 helpful votes

For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Zechariah 12:10 ESV / 186 helpful votes

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Psalm 41:9 ESV / 186 helpful votes

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

Psalm 16:2 ESV / 185 helpful votes

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

Luke 23:33 ESV / 184 helpful votes

And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Matthew 26:54 ESV / 183 helpful votes

But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

Psalm 22:18 ESV / 182 helpful votes

They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

Zechariah 11:2 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 179 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 177 helpful votes

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

John 1:2 ESV / 176 helpful votes

He was in the beginning with God.

Luke 24:2 ESV / 176 helpful votes

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

Matthew 27:2 ESV / 176 helpful votes

And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 176 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Zechariah 11:12 ESV / 176 helpful votes

Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 176 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Matthew 2:1 ESV / 175 helpful votes

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,

Galatians 4:2 ESV / 174 helpful votes

But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

Jonah 2:9 ESV / 174 helpful votes

But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

Mark 1:1-15:47 ESV / 172 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Jonah 2:2 ESV / 170 helpful votes

Saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.

John 1:29 ESV / 168 helpful votes

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 19:28 ESV / 166 helpful votes

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”

Mark 1:2 ESV / 163 helpful votes

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,

Matthew 27:35 ESV / 161 helpful votes

And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.

Genesis 49:10 ESV / 157 helpful votes

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Zechariah 11:3 ESV / 155 helpful votes

The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Psalm 41:3 ESV / 153 helpful votes

The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.

Matthew 2:17 ESV / 151 helpful votes

Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

Psalm 22:3 ESV / 151 helpful votes

Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 145 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 144 helpful votes

For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 144 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Colossians 1:3 ESV / 143 helpful votes

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Matthew 1:1 ESV / 143 helpful votes

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 141 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Matthew 12:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

Matthew 8:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Matthew 4:14 ESV / 140 helpful votes

So that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

2 Corinthians 10:6 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

John 18:32 ESV / 138 helpful votes

This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

Luke 21:32 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.

Revelation 20:3 ESV / 136 helpful votes

And threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

John 18:9 ESV / 136 helpful votes

This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”

John 17:13 ESV / 135 helpful votes

But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Luke 21:22 ESV / 128 helpful votes

For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Malachi 4:5 ESV / 127 helpful votes

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

Luke 4:21 ESV / 126 helpful votes

And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Romans 5:3 ESV / 123 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Romans 1:3 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

Mark 14:49 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”

Romans 8:4 ESV / 118 helpful votes

In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 5:4 ESV / 116 helpful votes

When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

John 14:15 ESV / 106 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 99 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.

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