100 Bible Verses about Plead

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

1 Samuel 24:15 ESV / 135 helpful votes

May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”

Jeremiah 12:1 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Isaiah 43:26 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Job 16:21 ESV / 120 helpful votes

That he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.

Job 19:5 ESV / 119 helpful votes

If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

Jeremiah 2:9 ESV / 118 helpful votes

“Therefore I still contend with you, declares the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend.

Job 13:19 ESV / 118 helpful votes

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Jeremiah 30:13 ESV / 116 helpful votes

There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.

Jeremiah 2:35 ESV / 116 helpful votes

You say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’

Isaiah 66:16 ESV / 116 helpful votes

For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

Isaiah 3:13 ESV / 116 helpful votes

The Lord has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples.

Job 23:6 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 114 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 110 helpful votes

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Hosea 2:2 ESV / 110 helpful votes

“Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Ezekiel 17:20 ESV / 110 helpful votes

I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 105 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 101 helpful votes

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

John 3:16 ESV / 100 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 35:1 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 96 helpful votes

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

Proverbs 22:23 ESV / 93 helpful votes

For the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Psalm 43:1 ESV / 93 helpful votes

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!

John 3:16-17 ESV / 92 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.

Micah 6:2 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Colossians 1:20 ESV / 88 helpful votes

And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Deuteronomy 17:8 ESV / 88 helpful votes

“If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose.

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 86 helpful votes

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Jeremiah 25:31 ESV / 86 helpful votes

The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the Lord.’

Jeremiah 51:36 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,

James 4:7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Luke 10:19 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

Joel 3:2 ESV / 80 helpful votes

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,

Ezekiel 38:22 ESV / 80 helpful votes

With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.

Psalm 74:22 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 79 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 23:11 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Colossians 1:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes

In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Job 9:19 ESV / 78 helpful votes

If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

Judges 6:32 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.

Judges 6:31 ESV / 78 helpful votes

But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”

Jeremiah 50:34 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 2:29 ESV / 76 helpful votes

“Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the Lord.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 75 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.

Exodus 12:13 ESV / 75 helpful votes

The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

Revelation 12:10 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

Isaiah 59:4 ESV / 72 helpful votes

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Psalm 119:154 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!

Revelation 1:5 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Ezekiel 20:36 ESV / 71 helpful votes

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 70 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 26:28 ESV / 70 helpful votes

For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Micah 7:9 ESV / 70 helpful votes

I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Ezekiel 20:35 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 68 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 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. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Hebrews 10:19 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

Acts 19:38 ESV / 67 helpful votes

If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.

Job 13:6 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Romans 12:2 ESV / 65 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

John 10:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Hebrews 13:12 ESV / 61 helpful votes

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Daniel 11:32 ESV / 58 helpful votes

He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 54 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, ...

Acts 20:28 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

John 14:27 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

John 16:33 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 3:2 ESV / 52 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 52 helpful votes

They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Hebrews 12:24 ESV / 51 helpful votes

And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 51 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Galatians 4:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Romans 3:25 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 5:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Ezekiel 20:35-36 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God.

1 John 3:8 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Colossians 2:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Luke 9:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Revelation 7:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Philippians 4:11-13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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