Counseling Bible verses for cell leaders

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 21:25

The sluggard's craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.

Acts 5:42

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, They never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

Isaiah 62:6-7

V6 I have posted watchman on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourself no rest.

V7 and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

Amos 6:1

Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on mount Samaria you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!

1 peter 4:12-15

V12 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trials you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. V13 but rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. V14 if you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of Gods rest on you. V15 if you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or a thief or any other criminal, or even as a meddler.

Matthew 10:34-38

34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

35 For I have come to turn

“‘a man against his father,

a daughter against her mother,

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—

36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

37 “Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

38 and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Luke 9:62

Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

John 3:18–21 (NIV 1984)

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.

Romans 8:4–6 (NIV 1984)

4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

Psalm 69:5 (NIV 1984)

5 You know my folly, O God; my guilt is not hidden from you.