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100 Bible Verses about Entitlement

James 4:6 ESV / 1,543 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 1,091 helpful votes

Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Luke 4:18 ESV / 1,085 helpful votes

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

James 4:1-12 ESV / 1,071 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”? ...

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1,030 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 1,023 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...

1 John 4:16 ESV / 1,000 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV / 993 helpful votes

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 946 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 922 helpful votes

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 894 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Romans 12:19 ESV / 861 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 854 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,

James 4:2 ESV / 618 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 596 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 545 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 540 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 538 helpful votes

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.

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 529 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 527 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:10-12 ESV / 524 helpful votes

For that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 523 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 ESV / 522 helpful votes

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 522 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 502 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 490 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 489 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 478 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

James 4:3 ESV / 474 helpful votes

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 469 helpful votes

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Matthew 25:17 ESV / 468 helpful votes

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

Matthew 25:5 ESV / 468 helpful votes

As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.

Proverbs 13:7 ESV / 468 helpful votes

One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 467 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 25:7 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.

Matthew 25:2 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

James 4:8 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:7 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 465 helpful votes

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 465 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

James 4:9 ESV / 464 helpful votes

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 456 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.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 436 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...

John 14:6 ESV / 397 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.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 392 helpful votes

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:21 ESV / 391 helpful votes

That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 378 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Matthew 10:16 ESV / 343 helpful votes

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Ephesians 4:10 ESV / 340 helpful votes

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Matthew 25:12 ESV / 330 helpful votes

But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

Matthew 25:4 ESV / 330 helpful votes

But the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.

James 4:4 ESV / 329 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 328 helpful votes

To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 328 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Matthew 25:6 ESV / 328 helpful votes

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 327 helpful votes

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

James 4:10 ESV / 326 helpful votes

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Ephesians 4:8 ESV / 326 helpful votes

Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”

Matthew 25:8 ESV / 326 helpful votes

And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Proverbs 13:9 ESV / 326 helpful votes

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Matthew 25:10 ESV / 324 helpful votes

And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

Matthew 25:14 ESV / 323 helpful votes

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.

James 4:12 ESV / 322 helpful votes

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 321 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Ephesians 4:19 ESV / 320 helpful votes

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Matthew 20:15 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

Ephesians 4:17 ESV / 318 helpful votes

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Matthew 25:16 ESV / 318 helpful votes

He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

Matthew 25:18 ESV / 316 helpful votes

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

Matthew 25:20 ESV / 315 helpful votes

And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’

Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 314 helpful votes

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Ephesians 4:20 ESV / 313 helpful votes

But that is not the way you learned Christ!—

Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 312 helpful votes

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

Matthew 25:22 ESV / 312 helpful votes

And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 310 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Matthew 25:24 ESV / 310 helpful votes

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 308 helpful votes

And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Matthew 25:26 ESV / 308 helpful votes

But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Matthew 25:28 ESV / 306 helpful votes

So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

Matthew 25:30 ESV / 304 helpful votes

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 25:34 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:32 ESV / 302 helpful votes

Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 298 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 25:36 ESV / 298 helpful votes

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 295 helpful votes

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 294 helpful votes

He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...

Matthew 25:38 ESV / 294 helpful votes

And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 293 helpful votes

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:44 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’

Matthew 25:42 ESV / 290 helpful votes

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 286 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Deuteronomy 7:7 ESV / 239 helpful votes

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 226 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 216 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. ...

Luke 14:7-11 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 202 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 162 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 ...

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