91 Bible Verses about Saints

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground.

You are the light of the world. A city located on top of a hill cannot be hidden,

Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

But I am hard pressed {between the two options}, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, {for this is very much better}.

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you {forever}-- the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know [him]. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you. "I will not leave you [as] orphans; I am coming to you.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

My soul will be satisfied [as with the] best and richest [food], and [with] joyful lips my mouth will praise. When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in [the] night watches.

in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with [it].

I [am] small and despised, [yet] I do not forget your precepts.

He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.

The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."

and in their mouth a lie was not found; they are blameless.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,

"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.

There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.

my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

"If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit,

my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.

These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These [are] the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity [as] first fruits to God and to the Lamb,

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through philosophy and empty deceit, according to {human tradition}, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ,

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

You [are] my God, and I will give thanks to you. [You are] my God; I will exalt you.

I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving.

Magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt his name together.

so that with one mind you may glorify with one mouth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and glorify your name forever,

And God is able to cause all grace to abound to you, so that in everything at all times, [because you] have enough of everything, you may overflow in every good work.

And with great power the apostles were giving testimony [to] the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.

Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

and [they are] longing for you in their prayers for you, because of the surpassing grace of God to you.

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace [that is] in Christ Jesus,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For from his fullness we have all received, and grace after grace.

but now you have been reconciled by {his physical body} through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

so that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

who saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus {before time began},

For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are.

[Because] all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of [people] must you be in holy behavior and godliness,

but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct,

because [those] whom he foreknew, he also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members [as] slaves to immorality and lawlessness, [leading] to lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness, [leading] to sanctification.

Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.

The one who does evil, let him do evil still, and the defiled, let him be defiled still, and the righteous, let him practice righteousness still, and the holy, let him be holy still."

and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

[that] we, being rescued from the hand of [our] enemies, could serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

Therefore, {when you have prepared your minds for action} [by] being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

But as for me, I will hope continually and increase your praise.

through whom also we have [obtained] access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling),

one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling),

I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

but Christ [was faithful] as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of.

looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.

After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt--you, our God, have held back less than our guilt [deserved] and you have given us a remainder such as this.

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, "Look, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father."

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.

And Moses {implored Yahweh} his God, and he said, "Why, Yahweh, should {your anger blaze} against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? Why should [the] Egyptians {say}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit [it] forever.'"

Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down.

And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children.

to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in [the] days of famine they will be satisfied.

{From} six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from [the] {power of} [the] sword.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

For this [is] the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be {their} God and they will be {my} people.

"But this [is] the covenant that I will {make} with the house of Israel after those days," {declares} Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

How I love your law! The whole day it [is] my meditation.

I hate {the double-minded}, but I love your law.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

Let your mercies come [to] me, that I may live, for your law [is] my delight.

[are] helping their brothers, their nobles, and entering into a solemn oath to walk in the law of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all of the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and his judgments and regulations.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and heed it with [my] whole heart.

Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.

I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh, and I heed your law.

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes so that the law of Yahweh will be in your mouth, that with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from Egypt.

"Remember the instruction of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do [it], and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel.

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which [is] in Christ Jesus,

in the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal ages,

And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.

These [things] I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of [what is] truly life.

For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and they will take possession of the kingdom forever, {forever and ever}.'

And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.

and they will come out--those who have done good [things] to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil [things] to a resurrection of judgment.

in the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal ages,

so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish {forever}, and no one will seize them out of my hand. My Father, who has given [them] to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize [them] from the Father's hand.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world,

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.

who through faith conquered kingdoms, accomplished justice, obtained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves {the father} also loves the [child] fathered by him.

We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple.

Because your loyal love [is] before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.

Hear my voice according to your loyal love; O Yahweh, preserve my life according to your justice.

From afar Yahweh appeared to me, [saying], "I have loved you [with] an everlasting love. {Therefore} I have drawn you [with] loyal love.

Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me. By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song [is] with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

According to your loyal love preserve me alive, so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth.

Please let your loyal love comfort me, according to your word to your servant.

I hid my face from you [for] a moment, in the flowing of anger, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness" says your redeemer, Yahweh.

who redeems your life from [the] pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,

As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.

And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and {disgrace}.

I hate and abhor falsehood; I love your law.

Keep falsehood and a {lying word} far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me [with] food [only for] my need.

Remove from me [the] deceptive way, and graciously give me your law.

The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten [them]."

And he said, "Surely my people [are] children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them.

There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.

Blessed [is] the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to [the] proud and [to those who] fall away [to] a lie.

"Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,

Do not be afraid of [the things] which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw [some] of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will experience affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it.

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that [is] in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him"--so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father.

Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for {truly} Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

By all means do not let anyone of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; [then] my tongue will sing aloud [of] your righteousness.

Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace.

And all those who follow this rule, peace and mercy [be] on them and on the Israel of God.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colossae. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,