What Does the Bible Say About Important People?

James 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Romans 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

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.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ...

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...

Matthew 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 106:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 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. ...

Genesis 13:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.

Psalm 31:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

33 Bible Verses about Important People

James 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 1:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 106:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 13:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 31:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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33 Bible Verses about Important People

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James 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

3 John 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 1:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 26:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 106:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 13:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 31:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote