What does the Bible say about winning souls for christ?
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The Bible teaches that believers are called to bear faithful witness to Christ, trusting God alone to save sinners by his grace. Jesus sends his church to proclaim the gospel to all creation, and Acts 1:8 promises the Spirit's power for this witness. Proverbs 11:30 commends the wisdom of winning souls, while 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 shows love that willingly serves others and removes needless obstacles to hearing the gospel. Yet Christ chose and appointed his people to bear lasting fruit, as John 15:16 teaches. We speak with gentleness, live faithfully before unbelievers, seek backsliders' restoration, and leave the results to the Lord who first loved us in Christ.
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- Mark 16:15 6 votes
He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 6 votes
[19] For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. [20] To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; [21] to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. [22] To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. [23] Now I do this for the Gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
- Proverbs 11:30 6 votes
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
- John 15:16 4 votes
You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- Acts 1:8 3 votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
- James 5:19-20 3 votes
[19] Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, [20] let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 3:1 3 votes
In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
- Ezekiel 3:20-21 3 votes
[20] Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. [21] Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
- Romans 5:8 3 votes
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Jude 1:23 2 votes
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
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