What Does the Bible Say About Structure?

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 32 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.

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But all things should be done decently and in order.

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 19 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Galatians 6:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes

It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Genesis 15:17-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

Deuteronomy 17:8-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose. And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you. According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Jude 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 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.

John 6:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 7 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.

Luke 10:27-35 ESV / 7 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.” 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?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. ...

Revelation 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

Jude 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Hebrews 7:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Titus 1:6-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

1 Timothy 3:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Acts 6:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

John 14:6 ESV / 5 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.

John 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Mark 10:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Mark 10:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Matthew 18:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them

Matthew 16:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

Ezekiel 43:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.

Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...

1 Kings 7:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Jude 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)

Jeremiah 7:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’ “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, ...

Hebrews 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

Psalm 121:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Genesis 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

55 Bible Verses about Structure

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 15:17-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 17:8-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:27-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 7:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 1:6-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 6:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 43:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 7:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 7:1-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 121:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

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

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