108 Bible Verses about Claims

The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness, [the] world and those who live in it, because he has founded it on [the] seas, and has established it on [the] rivers.

Look! For to Yahweh your God {belong} heaven and the {highest heavens}, the earth and all that [is] in it.

Who has come to confront me, that I should repay [him]? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.

[The] princes of [the] peoples are gathered together [with] the people of Abraham's God. For [the] shields of [the] earth belong to God. He is very exalted.

[The] heavens are yours, [the] earth yours as well, [the] world with its fullness, [because] you founded them.

Look! {All lives are mine}. {The lives of father and son alike are mine}. The person sinning will die.

[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.

I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to [the] south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth-- everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made."

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

"I [am] Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. "There shall be for you no other gods before me.

'I [am] Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. [There] shall not be for you other gods {besides me}.

Indeed, the {Israelites} [are] servants for me; they [are] my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I [am] Yahweh your God.'"

But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called [you] by your name; {you are mine}.

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live [or] whether we die, we are the Lord's.

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

But seek his kingdom and these [things] will be added to you.

"Consecrate to me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the {Israelites}, among humans and among domestic animals; {it belongs to me}."

Every first offspring of a womb [is] for me--all of your male livestock, [the] first offspring of cattle and small livestock.

" 'However, a man shall not consecrate a firstborn among livestock, which belongs as firstborn to Yahweh; whether an ox {or} small livestock, it is for Yahweh.

because all [the] firstborn [are] mine; on the day of my killing all [the] firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all [the] firstborn in Israel, {both humankind and animal}; they will be mine. I am Yahweh."

And the firstborn of our sons and beasts--as it is written in the law--and the firstborn of our cattle and sheep, to bring to the house of our God [and] to the priests serving in the house of our God.

"{And then} when you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it, then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, and you shall put [it] in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there.

We [also] bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

" 'And any tithe of the land from the land's seed [or] from the fruit of the trees [is] for Yahweh; it [is] a holy object for Yahweh.

Will a human [dare to] rob God? Yet you [are] robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions! You [are] being cursed with curse, for you [are] robbing me, the whole nation [of you]! Bring the whole tithe to {the storehouse}, so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you {an overflowing blessing}.

"Hear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique. And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.

And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.'

You must {carry out} my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I [am] Yahweh your God. And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations {by which the person doing them shall live}; I [am] Yahweh.

" '[Thus] you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them; I [am] Yahweh.'"

"Thus you shall keep my commands, and you shall do them; I [am] Yahweh.

I, Yahweh, [am] your God, [so] go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them.

because I [am] Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I [am] holy.

"Speak to all the community of the {Israelites}, and say to them, 'You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, [am] holy.

" 'And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I [am] Yahweh your God.

but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct, for it is written, "You will be holy, because I [am] holy."

and you shall not swear {falsely} in my name, and so [one of] you profane the name of your God; I [am] Yahweh.

"And you shall not profane my holy name, so that I may be consecrated in the midst of the {Israelites}; I [am] Yahweh, who consecrates you, the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be as God for you; I [am] Yahweh."

Each [of you] must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I [am] Yahweh your God.

" 'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I [am] Yahweh.

And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you {that you may know} that I, Yahweh, [am] your God.'

You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I [am] Yahweh your God.

For before these days, Theudas rose up saying he was somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined {him}. {He} was executed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

Now a certain man {named} Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?

Many a person will proclaim his loyalty [for] himself, but a man [who is] trustworthy, who can find?

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.

Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case [is] good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king."

Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have {ten times as much} in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt {by not giving me first chance} to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah [were] fiercer than the word of the men of Israel.

And Jesus approached [and] spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I [am] Yahweh your God.

Now when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Then I answered and said to them, "The God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem."

And I said to you, 'I [am] Yahweh your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you [are] living.' But you have not listened to my voice."

For they do not speak peace, but against [the] quiet [ones] of [the] land they plan deceitful words.

I [am] Yahweh; that [is] my name, and I do not give my glory to another, nor my praise to the idols.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

"Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy [them] but to fulfill [them].

just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile [you] and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."read more.
And he rolled up the scroll [and] gave [it] back to the attendant [and] sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking intently at him. And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!"

So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say [that] I expel demons by Beelzebul. But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel [them]? For this [reason] they will be your judges! But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you!

And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

And if Satan expels Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel [them]? For this [reason] they will be your judges! But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you!

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

And [why] not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come [of it]? Their condemnation is just!

Then Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in [my] name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward.

saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all [things] to us." Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am [he].

Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [he], you will die in your sins." So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning. I have many [things] to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and [the things] which I heard from him, these [things] I say to the world."read more.
(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.) Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am [he], and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these [things]. And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him." [While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.

So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And Jesus said, "You say [so]."

Believe me that I [am] in the Father and the Father [is] in me; but if not, believe because of the works themselves.

And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

And Pilate asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him [and] said, "You say [so]."

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

"And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house.

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many.

Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am [he],' and they will deceive many.

The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"

And he said, Watch out that you are not deceived! For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am [he],' and 'The time is near!' Do not go after them!

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I put you under oath by the living God, that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!" Jesus said to him, "You have said [it]. But I tell you, from now [on] you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?" And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven."

So they all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" And he said to them, "You say that I am."

He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to, because he said, 'I am the Son of God'!"

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

The Father and I are one."

Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'