What Does the Bible Say About Not Sharing The Gospel?

Mark 16:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Romans 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

John 15:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

Mark 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And have authority to cast out demons.

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

James 2:14-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

John 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 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 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

Matthew 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet; I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him,” says the Lord. Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked. So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.” ...

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Romans 8:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 17:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Acts 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

32 Bible Verses about Not Sharing The Gospel

Mark 16:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:14-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 8:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Not Sharing The Gospel

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Mark 16:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 2:14-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philemon 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 8:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Acts 17:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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