What Does the Bible Say About Cell Phones?

Ezekiel 14:3 ESV / 101 helpful votes

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 58 helpful votes

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

1 John 5:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes

That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

John 14:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Acts 2:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Job 38:35 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Matthew 24:23-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

John 14:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Revelation 17:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

John 3:16 ESV / 13 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.

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Genesis 37:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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.

John 16:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her. Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely. O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. ...

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...

Romans 7:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

John 14:6 ESV / 10 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 3:16-17 ESV / 10 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.

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, ...

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

John 16:13 ESV / 8 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.

Luke 12:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Acts 3:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’

John 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Job 26:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

39 Bible Verses about Cell Phones

Ezekiel 14:3 ESV / 101 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 38:35 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:23-27 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 17:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 37:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 7:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 3:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 26:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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