435 occurrences in 13 translations

'Person' in the Bible

Therefore whoever abolishes one of the least of these commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps [them] and teaches [them], this person will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsCommands, in NTKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfTeachingInferiorityMisteachingGreatness Of DisciplesTeaching The Way Of GodUnimportant ThingsBreaking The Ten Commandmentsrelaxingrelaxation

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningKnockingFinding ThingsGod Answers PrayerAccess

"There isn't a person among you who would give his son a stone if he asked for bread, is there?

Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodProvision From RocksBreadBeing A Good FatherFishparenthood

because he was teaching them like a person who had authority, and not like their scribes.

Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofTeachersJesus As Our TeacherAuthority Of Christempowermentliberationpharisees

"Sir," replied the Captain, "I am not a fit person to receive you under my roof: merely say the word, and my servant will be cured.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Advice For EffectiveRoofHumility, Examples OfUnworthinessChrist SpeakingJesus HealingFaith And HealingHope And Healing

Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous will receive a righteous person’s reward.

Verse ConceptsWelcoming BelieversReward For WorksRewardChristmas Treefriendliness

"Are you the Coming One, or is it a different person that we are to expect?"

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithWho Is Jesus?Hope Deferred

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

Verse ConceptsJohn The BaptistKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfInferiorityChrist Telling The TruthGreatness Of DisciplesGreatness Of JohnWhat Value Is Man?Woman's Place

Or how can anyone go into a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man? Then he will ransack and rob his house.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsHousesSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfVictory, Over Spiritual ForcesLimitations Of StrengthTying Uppossessions

The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who isn't gathering with me is scattering.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToNot MeChrist With People In SpiritNo Helpgathering

A good person brings good things out of a good treasure house, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure house.

Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSin, Nature OfConversationSpeaking, Wisdom InRenewed HeartFruits Of RighteousnessTreasuriesLike Good PeopleA Good Man

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through waterless places looking for a place to rest, but finds none.

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessParables Of ChristNames And Titles For SatanComing Out Of PeopleDry PlacesDemonic Influence

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofSevenEvil GenerationsSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringMore ThanWorseBackslidersDemonsCasting Out Demonshomecoming

Let the person who has ears listen!"

Verse ConceptsHearing

As for what was sown on the stony ground, this is the person who hears the word and accepts it joyfully at once,

Verse ConceptsFleeting ImpressionsSuddenlyHearing God's WordRejoicing In God's WordSowing Seedssowing

But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word, understands it, and produces a crop that yields 100, 60, or 30 times what was sown."

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualFruit, SpiritualFaith, Nature OfAcceptance, Of The GospelThirtySixtiesOne HundredThe Source Of FruitFertile LandLand ProducingHearing God's WordHundredfold Return

He presented them with another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

Verse ConceptsLikeningFigurative FieldsLikening ThingsSowing Seeds

It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfCursingEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedOther References To MouthsDefilementMarijuana

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.

Verse ConceptsComing Out Of PeopleBeware Of Your SpeechOther References To MouthsDefilementThe Tonguemath

These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfPeople UnwashedDefilement

How terrible it will be for the world due to its temptations to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!

Verse ConceptsNecessityWoeDenunciationsCausing Others To StumbleSure KnowledgeWoe To The WickedTemptationOvercoming AdversityOvercoming Obstacles

When he had begun to settle the accounts, a person who owed him 10,000 talents was brought to him.

Verse ConceptsTalentsActivity BegunLarge DenominationsDebtReconciliationaccounting

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to the worldCovetousness, Nature ofKingdom Of HeavenEntering The KingdomDrawbacks To RichesHard To Be Saved

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsHumourNeedlesSharp ToolsEntering The KingdomEasy For PeopleOther OpeningsKingdom Of GodGoing To HeavenimpossibleThe Narrow Gate

Take [what is] yours and go! But I want to give to this last [person] [the same] as [I gave] to you also.

Verse ConceptsEquality In Payment

If anyone says anything to you, tell him, "The Lord needs them,' and that person will send them at once."

Verse ConceptsSuddenlyAddressing SomeoneGod's NeedsGod's Ownership Of Everything

The person who falls over this stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

Verse ConceptsCrushingGod, The RockGrinding PeopleChrist The RockHurt And Betrayalwaterfallscrushes

And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysHonestyWay, TheJewish SectsChrist Telling The TruthChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is True

because to everyone who has something, more will be given, and he'll have more than enough. But from the person who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Verse ConceptsTalentsAbundance, SpiritualPossessingAdding BlessingThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's ThingsGifts And TalentsAbundance

He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeGod, Purpose OfGuestsEntering CitiesNear The Time PersonallyOther References To The DisciplesTimes Of The ChristGuest Rooms

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Verse ConceptsGesturesTumultCrowdsInnocence, Examples OfResponsibility, Examples OfSymbolsWashingExcitementDisorder Among PeopleResponsibility For Blood ShedJesus Christ, SinlessnessPlea Of Innocence

He added, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

Verse ConceptsHearingRevelation, Responses To

But He continued looking about to see the person who had done this,

Verse ConceptsWho Is The Doer?Looking And Seeing

Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfExternalsEntering The MouthComing Out Of PeopleFood PermittedDefilementprepping

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

Verse ConceptsExternalsEntering The MouthBeing Without UnderstandingDefilementprepping

Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him.

Verse ConceptsComing Out Of People

Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Jesus, they were startled and began running up to greet Him.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsCrowds SeekingSpoken Greetings

And as he went forth into the way, a person ran up to him, and kneeling to him asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

Verse ConceptseagernessBowingKneelingChrist, Names ForParticular JourneysIndividuals RunningSetting OutSeeking LifeGood PeopleActivity BegunDoing God's Works

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsNeedlesSharp ToolsEntering The KingdomDrawbacks To RichesEasy For PeopleOther OpeningsGoing To Heaven

He still had one more person to send, a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son.'

Verse ConceptsLove Between Father And SonRespect For People

And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysHonestyTributesWay, TheCaesarPerforming The TruthChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is TrueTelling The Truthattentiontaxes

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

Verse ConceptsGoalsAccepting Christenemies, of believersHatredProgressSuffering, Of BelieversSuffering, HardshipTo The EndEnduringPeople Being Hated

Now there was the person named Barabbas bound with those who had made insurrection with him, and that had committed murder in the insurrection.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsImprisonmentsRebellion, Against Human AuthorityBarabbasJudged As Murderers

Judas [also called Thaddaeus] the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor [to the Lord].

Verse ConceptsJudas IscariotJudas Betraying Christzealotstraitors

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

Verse ConceptsCloaksCheeksSelf DefenceDressSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The RighteousPeople Giving ClothesOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsAccepting BeatingsRobbing PeopleTurning The Other Cheek

Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsInterestRobbing PeopleGivingPropertyGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Back

He also told them a parable: "One blind person can't lead another blind person, can he? Both will fall into a ditch, won't they?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristDitchesBlindness, SymbolicPitsParables Of ChristPeople Falling From A HeightHoles In The GroundBlindness

A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure, because the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart."

Verse ConceptsBad ThoughtsBad PeopleBad LanguageBackbitingImagination, Inward DesiresSin, Nature OfSpeech, Power And Significance OfControlling Your ThoughtsCursingPowers Of SpeechGood PeoplePersonal GoodAbundanceclosure

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsStones For Protection

But the person who hears what I say but doesn't act on it is like someone who built a house on the ground without any foundation. When the floodwaters pushed against it, that house quickly collapsed, and the resulting destruction of that house was extensive."

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

Verse ConceptsJohn The BaptistKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfInferiorityGreatness Of DisciplesGreatness Of JohnWhat Value Is Man?

And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This person if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner.

Verse ConceptsSinnersUncharitablenessChrist Knowing About PeopleSoliloquyWho Is This?What Kind?Jesus The Prophet

But others fell on good soil, and when they came up, they produced 100 times as much as was planted." As he said this, he called out, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

Verse ConceptsHearingThe Cries Of ChristOne HundredFertile LandLand ProducingPlants Growing UpHundredfold Return

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me].

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfAbstinence as a disciplineCommitment, to Jesus ChristAttitudes Of Self Denialdiscipleship, nature ofdiscipleship, cost ofHow Disciples Are CalledGod, Suffering OfGospel, Requirements OfImitatingParticipation, In ChristRenunciationSelf DenialUnion With Christ, Significance OfUnselfishnessCares Of This WorldCrucifying Our FleshDaily DutyDeath To SelfChrist's Disciples Will SufferInstructions About FollowingOur CrucifixionParticipation In Christ SufferingsThe Crossdenial

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it.

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfLossMartyrdom, Qualities OfRestitutionSelf SacrificeKeeping Oneself AliveLosing One's LifeThe Surrendered life

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeAngels as agents of judgmentRejection Of God, Results OfBeing AshamedGod's Glory In Jesus ChristReceiving God's WordChrist And ShamingInteraction Of Father And SonMaranatha

And another [person] also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Jesus ChristFarewellsFirst ActionsDiscipleshipFamily And FriendsFamily FirstLeaving Parents For Spousegoodbyesfollowing

If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that's not the case, your greeting will come back to you.

Verse ConceptsReversion Of ThingsMen Of Peace

The person who listens to you listens to me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfGod, Unity OfLast JudgmentListeningEquality With GodRejecting PeopleAcceptance, Of Jesus ChristThe One Who Sent ChristRejection

All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Verse ConceptsGospel, Essence OfKnowing God, Nature OfAuthority Of ChristChrist Knowing GodNot Knowing About ChristWho Is God?God Giving To The SonInteraction Of Father And SonWho He Might BeThe Father's Activity Regarding ChristKnowing God's Character

because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningFinding ThingsGod Answers Prayer

"The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who doesn't gather with me scatters."

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToCooperationDissensiongathering

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessDry PlacesComing Out Of PeopleRestCasting Out Demons

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person is worse than the first."

Verse ConceptsBeing Firstevil, origins ofEvil SpiritsDeteriorationSatanic InvasionSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringThose DemonisedWorseCasting Out Demons

And a person said to him out of the crowd, Teacher, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

Verse ConceptsCovetousnessInheritanceSiblingsFamily ProblemsResolving Conflict

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t recline at the best place, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host.

Verse ConceptsCelebritiesSocial FellowshipSeatsDo Not Be ProudGuest RoomsWaiting Till Marriageimportance

Then the host who invited both of you would come to you and say, "Give this person your place.' In disgrace, you would have to take the place of least honor.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownShame Will ComeEthics

Now one of those eating with him heard this and told him, "How blessed is the person who will eat in the kingdom of God!"

Verse ConceptsFeastingMessianic BanquetTablesReclining To EatBlessed Through GodBenefits Of Heaven

It's suitable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. People throw it away. Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

Verse Conceptsdung and manure

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