Bible Verses About Simplicity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for simplicity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,991 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 1:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Simplicity
2 Corinthians 1:12234 votes
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Psalms 116:6105 votes
The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Matthew 6:2196 votes
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 16:1396 votes
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:3379 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Romans 8:5-665 votes
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Proverbs 1:2263 votes
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1 Corinthians 14:3362 votes
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Matthew 19:2461 votes
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Romans 12:856 votes
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
2 Corinthians 11:355 votes
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Luke 10:2152 votes
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Psalms 19:750 votes
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
Matthew 5:350 votes
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 6:3549 votes
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Micah 6:848 votes
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 22:3745 votes
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Psalms 46:1042 votes
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Acts 2:4641 votes
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Matthew 6:2239 votes
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Psalms 131:1-238 votes
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
1 Corinthians 2:236 votes
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Colossians 3:2236 votes
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Isaiah 55:1-234 votes
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Proverbs 11:433 votes
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
What does the Bible say about simplicity?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 1:12 on the subject of simplicity. Across 2,991 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 116:6, Matthew 6:21, Luke 16:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.