What Does the Bible Say About Do Not Waste?

Deuteronomy 19:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.

2 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

2 John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,

2 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Hebrews 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

Hebrews 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

2 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

John 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”

John 14:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

John 8:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ...

John 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For not even his brothers believed in him.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.

John 1:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

John 1:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).

Mark 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 22:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

Matthew 22:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”

Matthew 21:5-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” ...

Matthew 16:13-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. ...

Matthew 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 8:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Exodus 30:31-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

Exodus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

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 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

39 Bible Verses about Do Not Waste

Deuteronomy 19:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Hebrews 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 21:5-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:13-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:31-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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