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100 Bible Verses about Your Word Doesnt Return Void

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 186 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Isaiah 45:23 ESV / 61 helpful votes

By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Deuteronomy 32:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes

May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Isaiah 55:1-13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. ...

Isaiah 44:26 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Isaiah 55:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Romans 10:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 6:63 ESV / 31 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

1 Kings 22:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

Proverbs 10:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

Proverbs 7:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,

Psalm 119:126 ESV / 27 helpful votes

It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.

Psalm 89:39 ESV / 27 helpful votes

You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.

Numbers 30:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Deuteronomy 32:28 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Numbers 30:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

Numbers 30:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord will forgive her.

Isaiah 54:1-17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities. “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. ...

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Jeremiah 4:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

Isaiah 54:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.

Isaiah 44:26-28 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’; who says to the deep, ‘Be dry; I will dry up your rivers’; who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

Psalm 98:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 22 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 ...

Isaiah 46:9-11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

Isaiah 35:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

2 Chronicles 18:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Leviticus 8:1-9:24 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.” And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded to be done.” ...

1 Chronicles 16:33 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.

James 1:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Isaiah 55:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 18 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 2:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...

Isaiah 56:1-12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. ...

2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Isaiah 55:8-11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

John 3:16 ESV / 11 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.

Isaiah 55:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Psalm 33:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

1 Corinthians 16:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

Acts 12:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark.

Jeremiah 50:1-46 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet: “Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’ “For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away. “In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the Lord their God. They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’ ...

Isaiah 31:6-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel. For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

Isaiah 29:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”

Isaiah 17:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.

Nehemiah 11:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.

Nehemiah 7:55 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,

1 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.

Romans 4:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

Romans 3:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

Acts 24:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.

John 3:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Mark 4:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Nahum 2:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!

Jeremiah 19:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

Proverbs 24:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 80:14-19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! ...

Psalm 80:3-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Nehemiah 12:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

Nehemiah 12:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

Nehemiah 10:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

Nehemiah 10:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

Nehemiah 10:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

Nehemiah 10:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.

Nehemiah 10:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

Nehemiah 10:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

Nehemiah 9:4-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God. Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Nehemiah 8:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.

Nehemiah 7:45 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.

Nehemiah 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.

Nehemiah 7:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The sons of Adonikam, 667.

Nehemiah 7:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The sons of Azgad, 2,322.

Nehemiah 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The sons of Elam, 1,254.

Nehemiah 7:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The sons of Arah, 652.

Nehemiah 7:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Nehemiah 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.

Ezra 10:42 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

Ezra 10:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

Ezra 10:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.

Ezra 8:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.

Ezra 8:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men.

Ezra 8:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men.

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