What Does the Bible Say About Temperament?

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 9 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 8:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?

Psalm 116:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me?

Psalm 19:3-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; ...

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Jeremiah 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Isaiah 41:21-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

Isaiah 40:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

Jeremiah 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Isaiah 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Psalm 102:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But you are the same, and your years have no end.

Psalm 102:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. ...

Exodus 40:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,

Exodus 29:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.

Exodus 24:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Genesis 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Isaiah 43:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Psalm 40:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:

2 Chronicles 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

2 Samuel 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ...

1 Samuel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

Joshua 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

Deuteronomy 4:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

Numbers 28:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.

Numbers 16:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.

Numbers 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

Leviticus 16:2-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on. And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. “Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. ...

Leviticus 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Leviticus 2:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the Lord's food offerings. “No grain offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the Lord.

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

Exodus 29:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the Lord. It is a food offering to the Lord.

Exodus 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

44 Bible Verses about Temperament

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:31-32 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 8:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 116:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 19:3-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:21-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 102:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 102:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 40:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 29:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 24:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 43:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Samuel 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 4:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 28:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 16:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 16:2-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 30:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 29:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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