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100 Bible Verses about Risk Taking

2 Kings 7:4 ESV / 979 helpful votes

If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”

Ecclesiastes 11:4-6 ESV / 858 helpful votes

He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 847 helpful votes

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

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 815 helpful votes

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...

Ecclesiastes 11:1-3 ESV / 782 helpful votes

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Matthew 25:29 ESV / 771 helpful votes

For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 769 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Mark 8:36 ESV / 766 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Deuteronomy 10:11-12 ESV / 757 helpful votes

And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.’ “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

1 John 4:17-20 ESV / 742 helpful votes

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Matthew 14:29 ESV / 720 helpful votes

He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.

Luke 14:28-32 ESV / 633 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 515 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 502 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 487 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 481 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,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 451 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.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 448 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Luke 1:37 ESV / 448 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 426 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 409 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 400 helpful votes

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 ESV / 399 helpful votes

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. ...

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 398 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. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 ESV / 389 helpful votes

He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 368 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 351 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 351 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 345 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

John 3:16 ESV / 332 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.

John 16:33 ESV / 323 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 320 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 ...

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 319 helpful votes

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Romans 12:2 ESV / 305 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.

Acts 20:24 ESV / 300 helpful votes

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Luke 14:28 ESV / 299 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

James 4:14 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 290 helpful votes

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Matthew 14:30-31 ESV / 287 helpful votes

But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

1 Timothy 6:9-10 ESV / 280 helpful votes

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

2 Samuel 10:12 ESV / 269 helpful votes

Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

John 15:13 ESV / 267 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12 ESV / 267 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 267 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 265 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.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 265 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 10:10 ESV / 265 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 264 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 ESV / 264 helpful votes

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Ecclesiastes 11:6 ESV / 262 helpful votes

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 252 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 246 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 241 helpful votes

Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Chronicles 28:20 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

Hebrews 11:7-8 ESV / 219 helpful votes

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 219 helpful votes

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.”

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 219 helpful votes

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Proverbs 19:3 ESV / 218 helpful votes

When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.

James 4:13-15 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

Judges 7:2 ESV / 217 helpful votes

The Lord said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Matthew 14:29-31 ESV / 216 helpful votes

He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Ecclesiastes 10:8 ESV / 216 helpful votes

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Psalm 77:11 ESV / 216 helpful votes

I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 216 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Job 42:2 ESV / 216 helpful votes

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Matthew 25:22-26 ESV / 215 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.’ 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.’ 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, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 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?

1 Samuel 4:9 ESV / 215 helpful votes

Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”

Judges 6:15-16 ESV / 215 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.” And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

Acts 20:23 ESV / 213 helpful votes

Except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

Acts 19:21 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Philippians 4:2 ESV / 208 helpful votes

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:24-28 ESV / 208 helpful votes

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

Philippians 4:5 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

James 4:4 ESV / 205 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.

Mark 8:3 ESV / 205 helpful votes

And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”

Acts 14:22 ESV / 204 helpful votes

Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Luke 21:16 ESV / 204 helpful votes

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

James 2:26 ESV / 201 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

John 3:6 ESV / 201 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 174 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 167 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 167 helpful votes

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 155 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 148 helpful votes

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Luke 12:40 ESV / 126 helpful votes

You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 126 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 123 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:6 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

John 21:6 ESV / 121 helpful votes

He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.

Psalm 81:10 ESV / 118 helpful votes

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 117 helpful votes

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

John 14:6 ESV / 116 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.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 114 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 111 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.’

1 John 4:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

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