What Does the Bible Say About Shaping?

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Jeremiah 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 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.

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Acts 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Daniel 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ...

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Psalm 104:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

Psalm 67:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah

Psalm 33:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

2 Samuel 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Revelation 22:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

James 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

Hebrews 11:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Ephesians 5:21-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Numbers 35:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

33 Bible Verses about Shaping

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jeremiah 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 67:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 33:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Samuel 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 11:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:21-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Numbers 35:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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33 Bible Verses about Shaping

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 67:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 33:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jeremiah 18:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 67:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 33:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Samuel 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 11:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 5:21-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Numbers 35:33 ESV / 1 helpful vote