Loyalty
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 897 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 877 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 607 helpful votes
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, rig...
Loyalty
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 897 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 877 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 607 helpful votes
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 512 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Romans 13:1 ESV / 496 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
John 15:13 ESV / 491 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 490 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
John 3:16 ESV / 482 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.
Matthew 26:35 ESV / 447 helpful votes
Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.
Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 433 helpful votes
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 428 helpful votes
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 428 helpful votes
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
Matthew 26:33 ESV / 386 helpful votes
Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 373 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 364 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
1 Samuel 24:6-10 ESV / 350 helpful votes
He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.” So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage. And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’? Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.’
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 345 helpful votes
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 325 helpful votes
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
Psalm 78:8 ESV / 325 helpful votes
And that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 315 helpful votes
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 313 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 299 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.
1 Samuel 26:6-16 ESV / 298 helpful votes
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. ...
Ruth 1:16 ESV / 293 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
2 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 292 helpful votes
If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 291 helpful votes
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 20:28 ESV / 290 helpful votes
Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.
John 16:13 ESV / 286 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Proverbs 24:21 ESV / 285 helpful votes
My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 282 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
John 14:15 ESV / 277 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 275 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Ecclesiastes 8:2 ESV / 275 helpful votes
I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.
Ezra 6:10 ESV / 275 helpful votes
That they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 273 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Proverbs 17:11 ESV / 260 helpful votes
An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 256 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Philippians 4:3 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Ezra 7:26 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
1 John 3:24 ESV / 251 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 251 helpful votes
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 250 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
2 Samuel 15:21 ESV / 232 helpful votes
But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 227 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
John 14:6 ESV / 227 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 8:12 ESV / 223 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
2 Samuel 16:17 ESV / 211 helpful votes
And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
Hosea 6:4 ESV / 208 helpful votes
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
1 Chronicles 12:33 ESV / 208 helpful votes
Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.
Matthew 26:33-35 ESV / 201 helpful votes
Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.
2 Peter 2:10 ESV / 199 helpful votes
And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Luke 14:26-27 ESV / 197 helpful votes
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Esther 2:21-23 ESV / 194 helpful votes
In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Luke 14:33 ESV / 193 helpful votes
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
1 Chronicles 12:38 ESV / 193 helpful votes
All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.
Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 192 helpful votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Joshua 1:16-18 ESV / 192 helpful votes
And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses! Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 183 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
2 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 183 helpful votes
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 180 helpful votes
What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
2 Samuel 15:30 ESV / 178 helpful votes
But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.
Revelation 2:10 ESV / 177 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.
2 Samuel 18:3 ESV / 177 helpful votes
But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
Job 34:18 ESV / 172 helpful votes
Who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’
Romans 12:2 ESV / 171 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.
Revelation 2:2 ESV / 170 helpful votes
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 167 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 166 helpful votes
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...
2 Samuel 21:17 ESV / 165 helpful votes
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
Ezra 10:8 ESV / 164 helpful votes
And that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 160 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.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 155 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 ...
2 Kings 11:4-12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son. And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace. And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the Lord on behalf of the king, shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.” ...
Amos 2:4 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 147 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,
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 143 helpful votes
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
2 Samuel 19:6 ESV / 143 helpful votes
Because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 142 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 142 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 139 helpful votes
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
John 15:12-15 ESV / 134 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 129 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 129 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Romans 5:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Proverbs 25:19 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
2 Samuel 3:37 ESV / 128 helpful votes
So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.
Obadiah 1:12 ESV / 127 helpful votes
But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.
2 Samuel 18:12 ESV / 127 helpful votes
But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’
Numbers 31:41 ESV / 127 helpful votes
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the Lord, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 27:20 ESV / 124 helpful votes
You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.
2 Samuel 1:14 ESV / 123 helpful votes
David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”
Job 23:2 ESV / 122 helpful votes
“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 119 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.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 119 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
John 15:12 ESV / 116 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 10:10 ESV / 116 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
James 1:8 ESV / 111 helpful votes
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 110 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ezekiel 36:1-38 ESV / 109 helpful votes
“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. ...
Exodus 22:28 ESV / 106 helpful votes
“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
