Wednesday, March 20, 2019

50 Passages: Why Biblical Counseling?

“What are the foundational Scriptures upon which you founded and based your church's biblical counseling ministry?”

Collated below are the fifty passages listed most often.

Psalm 1:1-2
Proverbs 15:23
Proverbs 18:13, 21
Proverbs 25:11
Proverbs 27:6
Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 11:1-4
Isaiah 55:11
Matthew 22:34-40
Matthew 28:16-20
Mark 12:30-31
John 1:1-18
John 6:32-33
John 8:38
John 10:10
John 14:15-31
John 17:1-26
Acts 2:40-47
Acts 20:17-38
Romans 6:1-14
Romans 8:1-39
Romans 12:1-2
Romans 12:15
Romans 15:14
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
2 Corinthians 1:3-11
2 Corinthians 3:16-18 and 4:16-18
Galatians 6:1-5
Ephesians 1-3
Ephesians 4:11-16
Ephesians 4:17-24
Ephesians 4:29
Philippians 1:9-11
Colossians 1:25-29
Colossians 2:1-10
Colossians 3:1-16
Colossians 4:2-6
1 Thessalonians 2:8 (all of 1 Thessalonians 2)
1 Thessalonians 4:13
1 Thessalonians 5:14
2 Timothy 2:2
2 Timothy 2:24-26
2 Timothy 3:16-17
Hebrews 3:7-16
Hebrews 4:12-16
Hebrews 10:19-25
James 4:1-4
1 Peter 2:5-9
2 Peter 1:3-4
1 John 4:7-21"


Biblical Categories and Concepts

Many participants not only included specific verses, but also categories or concepts. Collated below you will find those that were listed the most often. 

One-Another Verses
Body Life Verses
Verses on Comforting the Suffering
Verses on Counseling the Sinning
Verses on the Sufficiency of Scripture
Verses on Sanctification and Growth in Grace
Verses on Listening
Verses on Seeing God’s Eternal/Gospel-Centered/Christ-Centered Perspective
Verses on Spiritual Discipline
Verses Using Noutheteo (Greek for confronting out of concern for change)
Verses Using Parakaleo (Greek for comfort, encourage, console)