What Does the Bible Say About Repression?

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

Luke 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Matthew 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

Acts 9:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

Acts 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.”

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.” Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. ...

Acts 5:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”

Acts 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Acts 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Luke 21:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

Psalm 110:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. ...

Genesis 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Hebrews 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”

Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Acts 4:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

While you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

Mark 9:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.

Mark 9:37 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Daniel 5:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,

32 Bible Verses about Repression

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Luke 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 9:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 110:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 9:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 9:37 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Daniel 5:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Repression

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Luke 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 7:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 9:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 18:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 5:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 110:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 9:41 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 9:37 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Daniel 5:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote