THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT
OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF;
OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF PRESS;
OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE,
AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”
THE GREAT AWAKENING=THE ABILITY FOR TRUTH TO COME IN, THE LIGHT BEING INTRODUCE TO the darkness;
GREAT DELIVERANCE!
WE USE THESE VERSES FOR QUICK CONFESSION AND ALSO WE GO TO ANY NUMBER AND THEN RETURN TO OUR WEEKDAYS DEVOTIONAL
WE GO TO ANY NUMBER IN THE BOOK
1
“DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD.
IF ANYONE LOVES THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER IS NOT IN HIM. FOR ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD–THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH,
THE DESIRES OF THE EYES, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE–IS NOT FROM THE FATHER BUT FROM THE WORLD. THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY ALONG WITH ITS DESIRES, BUT WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF GOD REMAINS FOREVER.
1 JOHN 2:15-17
2
HAVE FAITH IN GOD, TRULY I TELL YOU, IF ANYONE SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN ‘GO, THROW YOURSELF INTO THE SEA,’ AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN THEIR HEART BUT BELIEVES THAT WHAT THEY SAY WILL HAPPEN, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM. THEREFORE I TELL YOU, WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER, BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT, AND IT WILL BE YOURS. AND WHEN YOU STAND PRAYING, IF YOU HOLD ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE,
FORGIVE THEM, SO THAT YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN
MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS.
MARK 11:22-25
BECAUSE JUDGMENT WITHOUT MERCY WILL BE SHOWN
TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEEN MERCIFUL.
MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT
JAMES 2:13
3
IF YOU FORGIVE OTHERS THEIR TRESPASSES, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU, BUT IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE OTHERS THEIR TRESPASSES, NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES.
MATTHEW 6:14-15
TRUE YOUR SINS AND INIQUITIES HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN YOU;
AND SO ARE THOSE OF THE WHOLE WORLD. BUT YOU LIVE
UNDER THE LAW OF GIVING AND RECEIVING, OF SOWING AND REAPING, A FARMER HAS TO SOW GRAINS TO HARVEST A CROP, FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT HE COULD RECEIVE YOU AS HIS SON. IF YOUR HEART IS NOT TENDER ENOUGH TO EXTEND FORGIVENESS TO SOMEONE YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY RECEIVE FORGIVENESS FROM YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
BECAUSE JUDGMENT WITHOUT MERCY WILL BE SHOWN
TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT BEEN MERCIFUL.
MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT
JAMES 2:13
4
BE NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL, BECAUSE IT IS THE POWER OF GOD THAT BRINGS SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES: FIRST TO THE JEW, THEN TO THE GENTILE. FOR IN THE GOSPEL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED–A RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BY FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, JUST AS IT IS WRITTEN:
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH=BY THE WORD OF GOD
AND THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.”
ROMANS 1:16-17
SO WALK BY FAITH=DO THE WORD OF GOD
AND BE LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT,
and not by your sensory mechanisms.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:7
5
FOR YOU, BRETHREN, HAVE BEEN CALLED TO LIBERTY; ONLY DO NOT USE LIBERTY AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR the flesh, BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER. FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” BUT IF YOU BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, BEWARE LEST YOU BE CONSUMED BY ONE ANOTHER!
GALATIANS 5:13-15
6
I SAY THEN: WALK IN THE SPIRIT, AND YOU SHALL NOT FULFILL THE LUST OF the flesh. FOR the flesh LUSTS AGAINST THE SPIRIT, AND THE SPIRIT AGAINST the flesh; AND THESE ARE CONTRARY TO ONE ANOTHER, SO THAT YOU DO NOT DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WISH. BUT IF YOU ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW.
GALATIANS 5:16-18
7
NOW THE WORKS OF the flesh ARE EVIDENT, WHICH ARE:
ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LEWDNESS, IDOLATRY, SORCERY, HATRED, CONTENTIONS, JEALOUSIES, OUTBURSTS OF WRATH, SELFISH AMBITIONS, DISSENSIONS, HERESIES, ENVY, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELRIES, AND THE LIKE; OF WHICH I TELL YOU BEFOREHAND, JUST AS I ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
GALATIANS 5:19-21
8
BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING,
KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL.
AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW. AND THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST’S HAVE CRUCIFIED the flesh WITH ITS PASSIONS AND DESIRES. IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT, LET US ALSO WALK IN THE SPIRIT. LET US NOT BECOME CONCEITED, PROVOKING ONE ANOTHER, ENVYING ONE ANOTHER.
GALATIANS 5:22-26
9
FOR THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED,
BRINGING SALVATION TO YOU, INSTRUCTING YOU TO
DENY ungodliness and worldly desires AND TO LIVE SENSIBLY, RIGHTEOUSLY AND GODLY IN THE PRESENT AGE, LOOKING FOR THE BLESSED HOPE AND THE APPEARING OF THE GLORY OF YOUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR, CHRIST JESUS, WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR YOU TO REDEEM YOU FROM all wickedness AND TO PURIFY FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE THAT IS HIS VERY OWN, EAGER TO DO WHAT IS GOOD.
TITUS 2:11-14
10
SO FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANTLY SEEK (AIM AT, STRIVE AFTER)
THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [HIS WAY OF DOING AND BEING RIGHT–THE ATTITUDE AND CHARACTER OF GOD], AND EVERYTHING ELSE WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU IN SURPLUS.
MATTHEW 6:33
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT A MATTER OF EATING AND DRINKING, BUT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS [BEING IN RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD THROUGH REPENTANCE], PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR WHOEVER SERVES CHRIST IN THIS WAY IS PLEASING TO GOD AND APPROVED BY MEN.
ROMANS 14:17-18
11
BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO ENDURES TEMPTATION; FOR WHEN HE HAS BEEN APPROVED, HE WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE WHICH THE LORD HAS PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM. LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, “I AM TEMPTED BY GOD”; FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE. BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN DESIRES AND ENTICED. THEN, WHEN DESIRE HAS CONCEIVED, IT GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; AND SIN, WHEN IT IS FULL-GROWN, BRINGS FORTH DEATH.
JAMES 1:12-15
12*
DO NOT BE deceived, MY BELOVED BRETHREN. EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING. OF HIS OWN WILL HE BROUGHT US FORTH BY THE WORD OF TRUTH, THAT WE MIGHT BE A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS CREATURES.
JAMES 1:16-18
13
“LISTEN! BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT OUT TO SOW. AND IT HAPPENED, AS HE SOWED, THAT SOME SEED FELL BY THE WAYSIDE; AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR CAME AND DEVOURED IT. SOME FELL ON STONY GROUND WHERE IT DID NOT HAVE MUCH EARTH; AND IMMEDIATELY IT SPRANG UP BECAUSE IT HAD NO DEPTH OF EARTH. BUT WHEN THE SUN WAS UP IT WAS SCORCHED, AND BECAUSE IT HAD NO ROOT IT WITHERED AWAY. AND SOME SEED FELL AMONG THORNS; AND THE THORNS GREW UP AND CHOKED IT, AND IT YIELDED NO CROP. BUT OTHER SEED FELL ON GOOD GROUND AND YIELDED A CROP THAT SPRANG UP, INCREASED AND PRODUCED: SOME THIRTYFOLD,
SOME SIXTY, AND SOME A HUNDRED.”
AND HE SAID TO THEM,
“HE WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR!”
MARK 4:3-8
AND HE SAID TO THEM, “DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PARABLE? HOW THEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND ALL THE PARABLES? THE SOWER SOWS THE WORD. AND THESE ARE THE ONES BY THE WAYSIDE WHERE THE WORD IS SOWN. WHEN THEY HEAR, the satan COMES IMMEDIATELY AND TAKES AWAY THE WORD THAT WAS SOWN IN THEIR HEARTS. THESE LIKEWISE ARE THE ONES SOWN ON STONY GROUND WHO, WHEN THEY HEAR THE WORD, IMMEDIATELY RECEIVE IT WITH GLADNESS; AND THEY HAVE NO ROOT IN THEMSELVES, AND SO ENDURE ONLY FOR A TIME. AFTERWARD WHEN TRIBULATION OR PERSECUTION ARISES FOR THE WORD’S SAKE, IMMEDIATELY THEY STUMBLE. NOW THESE ARE THE ONES SOWN AMONG THORNS; THEY ARE THE ONES WHO HEAR THE WORD, AND THE CARES OF THIS WORLD, THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, AND THE DESIRES FOR OTHER THINGS ENTERING IN CHOKE THE WORD, AND IT BECOMES UNFRUITFUL. BUT THESE ARE THE ONES SOWN ON GOOD GROUND, THOSE WHO HEAR THE WORD, ACCEPT IT, AND BEAR FRUIT: SOME THIRTYFOLD, SOME SIXTY, AND SOME A HUNDRED.”
MARK 4:13-20
14
ALSO HE SAID TO THEM, “IS A LAMP BROUGHT TO BE PUT UNDER A BASKET OR UNDER A BED? IS IT NOT TO BE SET ON A LAMPSTAND? FOR THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN WHICH WILL NOT BE REVEALED, NOR HAS ANYTHING BEEN KEPT SECRET BUT THAT IT SHOULD COME TO LIGHT. IF ANYONE HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR.”
THEN HE SAID TO THEM, “TAKE HEED WHAT YOU HEAR. WITH THE SAME MEASURE YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU; AND TO YOU WHO HEAR, MORE WILL BE GIVEN. FOR WHOEVER HAS, TO HIM MORE WILL BE GIVEN; BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT HAVE, EVEN WHAT HE HAS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM.”
MARK 4:21-25
15
A GOOD MAN BRINGS GOOD THINGS OUT OF THE GOOD STORED UP IN HIS HEART, AND AN EVIL MAN BRINGS EVIL THINGS OUT OF THE EVIL STORED UP IN HIS HEART. FOR OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART YOUR MOUTH SPEAKS.
LUKE 6:45
16
“EITHER MAKE THE TREE GOOD AND ITS FRUIT GOOD, OR ELSE MAKE THE TREE BAD AND ITS FRUIT BAD; FOR A TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT. BROOD OF VIPERS! HOW CAN YOU, BEING EVIL, SPEAK GOOD THINGS? FOR OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS. A GOOD MAN OUT OF THE GOOD TREASURE OF HIS HEART BRINGS FORTH GOOD THINGS, AND AN EVIL MAN OUT OF THE EVIL TREASURE BRINGS FORTH EVIL THINGS. BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT FOR EVERY IDLE WORD MEN MAY SPEAK, THEY WILL GIVE ACCOUNT OF IT IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE ACQUITTED=JUSTIFIED AND MAKE RIGHT WITH GOD AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED.”
MATTHEW 12:33-37
17*
DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE,
AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT AND INDULGE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT AND BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR WORDS.
PROVERBS 18:21
19
BUT I TELL YOU THAT EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO GIVE ACCOUNT ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR EVERY EMPTY WORD THEY HAVE SPOKEN. FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE ACQUITTED, AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED.
MATTHEW 12:36-37
20
FROM THE FRUIT OF THEIR MOUTH A PERSON’S STOMACH IS FILLED;
WITH THE HARVEST OF THEIR LIPS THEY ARE SATISFIED.
THE TONGUE HAS THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH,
AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.
PROVERBS 18:20-21
21
FROM THE FRUIT OF A MAN’S MOUTH HE ENJOYS GOOD, BUT THE DESIRE OF THE TREACHEROUS IS VIOLENCE. THE ONE WHO GUARDS HIS MOUTH PRESERVES HIS LIFE; THE ONE WHO OPENS WIDE HIS LIPS COMES TO RUIN.
PROVERBS 13:2-3
22
THE MOUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE,
BUT THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED CONCEALS VIOLENCE.
PROVERBS 10:11
23
LET THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH AND THE MEDITATIONS OF MY HEART BE ACCEPTABLE IN YOUR SIGHT, O LORD, MY ROCK AND MY REDEEMER.
PSALM 19:14
24
FOR WITH THE HEART A PERSON BELIEVES, RESULTING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND WITH THE MOUTH HE CONFESSES, RESULTING IN SALVATION.
ROMANS 10:10
25
THE MOUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS UTTERS WISDOM,
AND HIS TONGUE SPEAKS JUSTICE.
PSALM 37:30
26
THE MOUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS FLOWS WITH WISDOM,
BUT THE PERVERTED TONGUE WILL BE CUT OUT.
PROVERBS 10:31
27
BOAST NO MORE SO VERY PROUDLY,
DO NO LET ARROGANCE COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH;
FOR THE LORD IS A GOD OF KNOWLEDGE,
AND WITH HIM ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED.
1 SAMUEL 2:3
28
THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH ARE WICKEDNESS AND DECEIT;
HE HAS CEASED TO BE WISE AND TO DO GOOD.
PSLAM 36:3
29
“WHEN YOU SAW a thief, YOU CONSENTED WITH him,
AND HAVE BEEN A PARTAKER WITH adulterers.
YOU GIVE YOUR MOUTH TO evil,
AND YOUR TONGUE FRAMES deceit.
YOU SIT AND SPEAK AGAINST YOUR BROTHER;
YOU SLANDER YOUR OWN MOTHER’S SON.”
PSALM 50:18-20
30
FOR THE LIPS OF AN ADULTERESS DRIP HONEY
AND SMOOTHER THAN OIL IS HER SPEECH;
PROVERBS 5:3
31
THE TONGUE OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS A CHOICE SILVER,
THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS WORTH LITTLE.
THE LIPS OF THE RIGHTEOUS FEED MANY,
BUT FOOLS DIE FOR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.
IT IS THE BLESSING OF THE LORD THAT MAKES RICH,
AND HE ADDS NO SORROW TO IT.
NEITHER DOES TOILING INCREASE IT.
PROVERBS 10:20-22
32
IF ANYONE CONSIDERS HIMSELF RELIGIOUS AND YET DOES NOT BRIDLE HIS TONGUE, HE DECEIVES HIS HEART AND HIS RELIGION IS WORTHLESS. PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE OUR GOD AND FATHER IS THIS: TO CARE FOR ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR DISTRESS, AND TO KEEP ONESELF FROM BEING POLLUTED BY THE WORLD.
JAMES 1:27
33
“NOT MANY OF YOU SHOULD BECOME TEACHERS, MY FELLOW BELIEVERS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT WE WHO TEACH WILL BE JUDGED MORE STRICTLY. WE ALL STUMBLE IN MANY WAYS. ANYONE WHO IS NEVER AT FAULT IN WHAT THEY SAY IS PERFECT, ABLE TO KEEP THEIR WHOLE BODY IN CHECK.”
JAMES 3:1-2
34
WHEN WE PUT BITS INTO THE MOUTHS OF HORSES TO MAKE THEM OBEY US, WE CAN TURN THE WHOLE ANIMAL. OR TAKE SHIPS AS AN EXAMPLE. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE SO LARGE AND ARE DRIVEN BY STRONG WINDS, THEY ARE STEERED BY A VERY SMALL RUDDER WHEREVER THE PILOT WANTS TO GO. LIKEWISE, THE TONGUE IS A SMALL PART OF THE BODY, BUT IT MAKES GREAT BOASTS. CONSIDER THAT A GREAT FOREST IS SET ON FIRE BY A SMALL SPARK. THE TONGUE ALSO IS A FIRE, A WORLD OF EVIL AMONG THE PARTS OF THE BODY. IT CORRUPTS THE WHOLE BODY, SETS THE WHOLE COURSE OF ONE’S LIFE ON FIRE, AND IS ITSELF SET ON FIRE BY HELL.
JAMES 3:3-6
35
ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS, BIRDS, REPTILES AND SEA CREATURES ARE BEING TAMED AND HAVE BEEN TAMED BY MANKIND, BUT NO HUMAN BEING CAN TAME THE TONGUE. IT IS A RESTLESS EVIL,
FULL OF DEADLY POISON.
WITH THE TONGUE WE PRAISE OUR LORD AND FATHER,
AND WITH IT WE CURSE HUMAN BEINGS, WHO HAVE BEEN MADE IN GOD’S LIKENESS. OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH COME PRAISE AND CURSING. MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THIS SHOULD NOT BE. CAN BOTH FRESH WATER AND SALT WATER FLOW FROM THE SAME SPRING? MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, CAN A FIG TREE BEAR OLIVES, OR A GRAPEVINE BEAR FIGS? NEITHER CAN A SALT SPRING PRODUCE FRESH WATER.
JAMES 3:7-12
36
WHO IS WISE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG YOU?
LET THEM SHOW IT BY THEIR GOOD LIFE, BY DEEDS DONE IN THE HUMILITY THAT COMES FROM WISDOM. BUT IF YOU HARBOR BITTER ENVY AND SELFISH AMBITION IN YOUR HEARTS, DO NOT BOAST ABOUT IT OR DENY THE TRUTH. SUCH “WISDOM” DOES NOT COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN BUT IS EARTHLY, UNSPIRITUAL, DEMONIC. FOR WHERE YOU HAVE ENVY AND SELFISH AMBITION, THERE YOU FIND DISORDER AND EVERY EVIL PRACTICE.
BUT THE WISDOM THAT COMES FROM HEAVEN IS FIRST OF ALL PURE; THEN PEACE-LOVING, CONSIDERATE, SUBMISSIVE, FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUIT, IMPARTIAL AND SINCERE. PEACEMAKERS WHO SOW IN PEACE REAP A HARVEST OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
JAMES 3:13-18
37
AND SINCE WE HAVE THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH, ACCORDING TO WHAT IS WRITTEN, “I BELIEVED AND THEREFORE I SPOKE,” WE ALSO BELIEVE AND THEREFORE SPEAK, KNOWING THAT HE WHO RAISED UP THE LORD JESUS WILL ALSO RAISE US UP WITH JESUS, AND WILL PRESENT US WITH YOU. FOR ALL THINGS ARE FOR YOUR SAKES, THAT GRACE, HAVING SPREAD THROUGH THE MANY, MAY CAUSE THANKSGIVING TO ABOUND TO THE GLORY OF GOD.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:13-15
THEREFORE, HOLY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHO SHARE IN THE HEAVENLY CALLING, CONSIDER THE APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST OF OUR CONFESSION, CHRIST JESUS, WHO WAS FAITHFUL TO HIM WHO APPOINTED HIM, AS MOSES ALSO WAS FAITHUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE.
HEBREWS 3:1-2
38
THEREFORE, SINCE WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST WHO HAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, LET US HOLD FIRMLY TO THE FAITH WE PROFESS. FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO IS UNABLE TO EMPATHIZE WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WE HAVE ONE WHO HAS BEEN TEMPTED IN EVERY WAY, JUST AS WE ARE–YET HE DID NOT SIN. LET US THEN APPROACH GOD’S THRONE OF GRACE WITH CONFIDENCE, SO THAT WE MAY RECEIVE MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO HELP US IN OUR TIME OF NEED.
HEBREWS 4:14-16
39
I REMIND YOU BELIEVERS OF THESE THINGS,
CHARGING YOU BEFORE GOD TO AVOID QUARRELING OVER WORDS, WHICH IS IN NO WAY PROFITABLE AND LEADS ITS LISTENERS TO RUIN.
MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO PRESENT YOURSELF APPROVED TO GOD, AND UNASHAMED WORKMAN WHO ACCURATELY HANDLES THE WORD OF TRUTH.
2 TIMOTHY 2:14-15
40
AVOID WORTHLESS, FOOLISH TALK THAT ONLY LEADS TO MORE GODLESS BEHAVIOR. THIS KIND OF TALK SPREADS LIKE CANCER, AS IN THE CASE OF HYMENAEUS AND PHILETUS. THEY HAVE LEFT THE PATH OF TRUTH, CLAIMING THAT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD HAS ALREADY OCCURRED; IN THIS WAY, THEY HAVE TURNED SOME PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE FAITH.
BUT GOD’S TRUTH STANDS FIRM LIKE A FOUNDATION STONE WITH THIS INSCRIPTION: “THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS,” AND “ALL WHO BELONG TO THE LORD MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL.”
2 TIMOTHY 2:16-19
41
DO NOT PRESENT THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO sin as instruments of wickedness, BUT PRESENT YOURSELVES TO GOD AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM death TO LIFE; AND PRESENT THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO HIM AS INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSENESS.
ROMANS 6:13
42
AND IN HIM, HAVING HEARD AND BELIEVED THE WORD OF TRUTH–THE GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION–YOU WERE SEALED WITH THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS THE GUARANTEE OF OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION, TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.
EPHESIANS 1:13-14
43
BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO PERSEVERES UNDER TRIAL, BECAUSE WHEN HE HAS STOOD THE TEST, HE WILL RECEIVE THE CROWN OF LIFE THAT GOD HAS PROMISED TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.
LET NO ONE SAY WHEN HE IS TEMPTED, “I AM TEMPTED BY GOD”; FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY evil, NOR DOES HE HIMSELF TEMPT ANYONE. BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN DESIRES AND ENTICED. THEN, WHEN DESIRE HAS CONCEIVED, IT GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; AND SIN, WHEN IT IS FULL-GROWN, BRINGS FORTH DEATH.
JAMES 1:12
44
DO NOT BE DECEIVED, MY BELOVED BRETHREN. EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING. HE CHOSE TO GIVE US BIRTH THROUGH THE WORD OF TRUTH, THAT WE WOULD BE A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS CREATION.
JAMES 1:18
45
SO JESUS SAID, “ARE YOU ALSO STILL WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING?
DO YOU NOT YET UNDERSTAND THAT WHATEVER ENTERS THE MOUTH GOES INTO THE STOMACH AND IS ELIMINATED? BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH PROCEED OUT OF THE MOUTH COME FROM THE HEART, AND THEY DEFILE A MAN. FOR OUT OF THE HEART PROCEED evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. these are the things which defile A MAN, BUT TO EAT WITH UNWASHED HANDS DOES NOT DEFILE A MAN.”
MATTHEW 15:16-20
46
“YOU SHALL NOT DISTORT JUSTICE; YOU SHALL NOT BE PARTIAL, AND YOU SHALL NOT TAKE A BRIBE, FOR A BRIBE BLINDS THE EYES OF THE WISE AND PERVERTS THE WORDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.”
DEUTERONOMY 16:19
47
“LIKE A DOG THAT RETURNS TO HIS VOMIT
IS A FOOL WHO REPEATS HIS FOOLISHNESS.
DO YOU SEE A MAN [WHO IS UNTEACHABLE AND] WISE IN HIS OWN EYES AND FULL OF SELF-CONCEIT? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR A FOOL THAN FOR HIM.”
PROVERBS 26:11-12
48
OF THEM THE PROVERBS ARE TRUE: “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS VOMIT,” AND, “A SOW THAT IS WASHED GOES BACK TO HER WALLOWING IN THE MUD.”
2 PETER 2:22
49
WHEN PHARAOH SAW THERE WAS RELIEF,
HOWEVER, HE HARDENED HIS HEART AND WOULD NOT LISTEN TO MOSES AND AARON, JUST AS THE LORD HAD SAID.
EXODUS 8:15
50
“THEY STRUCK ME, BUT I FEEL NO PAIN! THEY BEAT ME, BUT I DID NOT KNOW IT! WHEN CAN I WAKE UP TO SEARCH FOR ANOTHER DRINK?”
PROVERBS 23:35
51
“LIKE AN ARCHER WHO WOUNDS AT RANDOM IS HE WHO HIRES A FOOL OR PASSER-BY.
PROVERBS 26:10
52
“THOUGH YOU GRIND A FOOL IN A MORTAR WITH A PESTLE ALONG WITH GRAIN, YET HIS FOLLY WILL NOT DEPART FROM HIM.”
PROVERBS 27:22
53
BUT I TELL YOU THAT EVERYONE WILL HAVE TO GIVE ACCOUNT ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR EVERY EMPTY WORD THEY HAVE SPOKEN. FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE ACQUITTED, AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED.
MATTHEW 12:36-37
54
A GOOD MAN BRINGS GOOD THINGS OUT OF THE GOOD STORED UP IN HIS HEART, AND AN EVIL MAN BRINGS EVIL THINGS OUT OF THE EVIL STORED UP IN HIS HEART. FOR THE MOUTH SPEAKS WHAT THE HEART IS FULL OF.
LUKE 6:45
55
“I BELIEVED; THEREFORE I HAVE SPOKEN. SINCE WE HAVE THAT SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH, WE ALSO BELIEVE AND THEREFORE SPEAK.”
2 CORINTHIANS 4:13
“THEREFORE, HOLY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHO SHARE IN THE HEAVENLY CALLING, FIX YOUR THOUGHTS ON JESUS, WHOM WE ACKNOWLEDGE AS OUR APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST.”
HEBREWS 3:1
56
THEREFORE, SINCE WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST WHO HAS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, JESUS THE SON OF GOD, I SEE TO IT TO HOLD FIRMLY TO THE FAITH I PROFESS. FOR I DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO IS UNABLE TO EMPATHIZE WITH MY WEAKNESSES, BUT I HAVE ONE WHO HAS BEEN TEMPTED IN EVERY WAY, JUST AS I AM–YET HE DID NOT SIN. I SEE TO IT THEN THAT I APPROACH GOD’S THRONE OF GRACE WITH CONFIDENCE, SO THAT I MAY RECEIVE MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO HELP ME IN MY TIME OF NEED.
HEBREWS 4:14-16
57
KEEP YOUR MOUTH FREE OF perversity;
KEEP corrupt TALK FAR FROM YOUR LIPS.
PROVERBS 4:24
FROM THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH A [WISE] MAN ENJOYS GOOD, BUT THE DESIRE OF THE treacherous IS FOR VIOLENCE.
PROVERBS 13:2
58
THE SOOTHING TONGUE IS A TREE OF LIFE,
BUT A PERVERSE TONGUE CRUSHES THE SPIRIT.
PROVERBS 15:4
THE WORD OF THE MOUTH ARE DEEP WATERS,
BUT THE FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM IS A RUSHING STREAM.
PROVERBS 18:4
59
THE LIPS OF FOOLS BRING THEM STRIFE, AND THEIR MOUTHS INVITE A BEATING. THE MOUTHS OF FOOLS ARE THEIR UNDOING, AND THEIR LIPS ARE A SNARE TO THEIR LIVES.
PROVERBS 18:6-7
THE TONGUE HAS THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH,
AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.
PROVERBS 18:21
60
I UPHOLD ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF GOD’S POWER,
FOR THE SATAN IS THE GOD OF THAT NATURAL WORLD,
HE IS THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR AND I KNOW
HE WILL USE MY OWN WORD TO DEFEAT ME.
61
A NEW COMMAND THE LORD GAVE ME: “LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”
AS HE HAS LOVED ME, SO I DO LOVE MY BRETHREN. BY THIS EVERYONE WILL KNOW THAT I AM YOUR DISCIPLE, LORD, BECAUSE I LOVE MY BRETHREN.
JOHN 13:34-35
62
I WHO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS ABIDE IN HIM
AND HE IN ME. I KNOW BY THIS THAT HE ABIDES IN ME,
BY THE SPIRIT WHOM HE HAS GIVEN ME.
1 JOHN 3:24
63
I AM NOT WISE IN MY OWN EYES,
I FEAR THE LORD AND TURN AWAY FROM evil
THIS MEAN HEALTH FOR MY FLESH
AND VIGOR FOR MY BONES.
LOVE NEVER FAILS, NEVER FADES OUT
OR BECOMES OBSOLETE, OR COMES TO AN END:
I NEVER FAIL, NEVER FADE OUT OR BECOME OBSOLETE,
OR COME TO AN END FOR IT IS THE FATHER THAT DWELLETH IN ME HE DOES THE WORK.
64
I REALIZE THAT THOSE WHO DO WRONG WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD! I DON’T FOOL MYSELF. THOSE WHO INDULGE IN SEXUAL SIN,
OR WHO WORSHIP IDOLS, OR COMMIT ADULTERY, OR ARE MALE PROSTITUTES, OR PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, OR ARE THIEVES, OR GREEDY PEOPLE, OR DRUNKARDS, OR ABUSIVE, OR CHEAT PEOPLE–NONE OF THESE WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD=THE POWER, THE AUTHORITY OF GOD [BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORFEITED IT].
I WAS ONCE LIKE THAT. BUT I WAS CLEANSED; I WAS MADE HOLY, I WAS MADE RIGHT WITH GOD BY CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11
65
GRACE AND PEACE TO ME THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH FROM GOD MY FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO GAVE HIMSELF FOR MY SINS TO RESCUE ME FROM the present evil age, ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF OUR GOD AND FATHER, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
GALATIANS 1:3-5
66
MAY GOD HIMSELF, THE GOD OF PEACE, SANCTIFY ME THROUGH AND THROUGH. MAY MY WHOLE SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY BE KEPT BLAMELESS AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE ONE WHO CALLS ME IS FAITHFUL, AND HE WILL DO IT.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:23-24
67
TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO KEEP US FROM STUMBLING AND TO PRESENT US BEFORE HIS GLORIOUS PRESENCE WITHOUT FAULT AND WITH GREAT JOY–TO THE ONLY GOD OUR SAVIOR BE GLORY, MAJESTY, POWER AND AUTHORITY, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, BEFORE ALL AGES, NOW AND FOREVERMORE! AMEN.
JUDE:24-25
68
NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH US IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, THE MESSAGE THE APOSTLE PAUL PROCLAIM ABOUT JESUS CHRIST, IN KEEPING WITH THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY HIDDEN FOR LONG AGES PAST, BUT NOW REVEALED AND MADE KNOWN THROUGH THE PROPHETIC WRITINGS BY THE COMMAND OF THE ETERNAL GOD, SO THAT ALL THE GENTILES=THOSE WITHOUT GOD MIGHT COME TO THE OBEDIENCE THAT COMES FROM FAITH–TO THE ONLY WISE GOD BE GLORY FOREVER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! AMEN.
ROMANS 16:25-27
69
AND SINCE WE HAVE THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH, ACCORDING TO WHAT IS WRITTEN, “I BELIEVED AND THEREFORE I SPOKE,” WE ALSO BELIEVE AND THEREFORE SPEAK, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THE ONE WHO RAISED THE LORD JESUS FROM THE DEAD WILL ALSO RAISE US WITH JESUS AND PRESENT US WITH ALL THE SAINTS TO HIMSELF.
FOR ALL THINGS ARE FOR MY SAKES, THAT GRACE, HAVING SPREAD THROUGH THE MANY, MAY CAUSE THANKSGIVING TO ABOUND
TO THE GLORY OF GOD.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:13-15
70
HE WILL ALSO KEEP ME FIRM TO THE END, SO THAT I WILL BE BLAMELESS ON THE DAY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:8
71
IT IS BECAUSE OF HIM THAT I AM IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO HAS BECOME FOR ME WISDOM FROM GOD–THAT IS, MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOLINESS AND REDEMPTION.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:30
72*
THE GOD OF PEACE BE WITH US ALL. AMEN.
ROMANS 15:33
73
FOR WHAT IS OUR HOPE, OUR JOY, OR THE CROWN IN WHICH WE WILL GLORY IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR LORD JESUS WHEN HE COMES? IS IT NOT YOU?
1 THESSALONIANS 2:19
76
NOW MAY OUR GOD AND FATHER HIMSELF AND OUR LORD JESUS CLEAR THE WAY FOR US TO GO TO THE WORLD.
1 THESSALONIANS 3:11
77
REJECT EVERY KIND OF EVIL.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:22
78
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE. SHARPER THAN ANY DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, IT PENETRATES EVEN TO DIVIDING SOUL AND SPIRIT, JOINTS AND MARROW; IT JUDGES THE THOUGHTS AND ATTITUDES OF THE HEART.
HEBREWS 4:12
79
AS I LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY OF GOD AND SPEED ITS COMING. THAT DAY WILL BRING ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HEAVENS BY FIRE, AND THE ELEMENT WILL MELT IN THE HEAT. BUT IN KEEPING WITH HIS PROMISE I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, WHERE RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS.
SO THEN, I JESUS’ DEAR FRIEND, SINCE I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS, I MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BE FOUND SPOTLESS, BLAMELESS AND AT PEACE WITH HIM.
2 PETER 3:14
80
I AM CONFIDENT OF THIS, THAT HE WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK IN ME WILL CARRY IT ON TO COMPLETION UNTIL THE DAY OF CHRIST JESUS.
PHILIPPIANS 1:6
81
“CURSED IS THE ONE WHO TRUSTS IN MAN,
WHO DRAWS STRENGTH FROM MERE FLESH
AND WHOSE HEART TURNS AWAY FROM THE LORD.
THAT PERSON WILL BE LIKE A BUSH IN THE WASTELANDS;
THEY WILL NOT SEE PROSPERITY WHEN IT COMES.
THEY WILL DWELL IN THE PARCHED PLACES OF THE DESERT,
IN A SALT LAND WHERE NO ONE LIVES.”
“BUT BLESSED AM I WHO TRUST IN THE LORD,
WHOSE CONFIDENCE IS IN HIM.
I BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATER
THAT SENDS OUT ITS ROOT BY THE STREAM.
IT DOES NOT FEAR WHEN HEAT COMES;
ITS LEAVES ARE ALWAYS GREEN.
IT HAS NO WORRIES IN A YEAR OF DROUGHT
AND NEVER FAILS TO BEAR FRUIT.”
82
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
AND BEYOND CURE.
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND IT?
“I THE LORD SEARCH THE HEART
AND EXAMINE THE MIND,
TO REWARD EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO THEIR CONDUCT,
ACCORDING TO WHAT THEIR DEEDS DESERVE.”
LIKE A PARTRIDGE THAT HATCHES EGGS IT DID NOT LAY
ARE THOSE WHO GAIN RICHES BY UNJUST MEANS.
WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE HALF GONE, THEIR RICHES WILL DESERT THEM, IN THE END THEY WILL PROVE TO BE FOOLS.
OOO
A THRONE OF GLORY,
EXALTED FROM THE BEGINNING,
IS THE PLACE OF OUR SANCTUARY.
LORD, YOU ARE THE HOPE OF THE WORLD;
ALL WHO FORSAKE YOU WILL BE PUT TO SHAME.
THOSE WHO TURN AWAY FROM YOU WILL BE WRITTEN
IN THE DUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN THE LORD,
THE SPRING OF LIVING WATER
JEREMIAH 17:5–13
83
THE PRIDE OF YOUR HEART HAS DECEIVED YOU, YOU WHO LIVE IN THE CLEFTS OF THE ROCKS AND MAKE YOUR HOME ON THE HEIGHTS, YOU WHO SAY TO YOURSELF, “WHO CAN BRING ME DOWN TO THE GROUND?”
OBEDIAH 1:3
84
IN HIS ARROGANCE the wicked man HUNTS DOWN THE WEAK,
WHO ARE CAUGHT IN THE SCHEMES he DEVISES.
he BOASTS ABOUT THE CRAVINGS OF his heart; he BLESSES THE GREEDY AND REVILES THE LORD. IN his pride the wicked man DOES NOT SEEK HIM; IN ALL his THOUGHTS THERE IS NO ROOM FOR GOD.
PSALM 10:2-4
85
WHEN PRIDE COMES, THEN COMES DISGRACE,
BUT WITH HUMILITY COMES WISDOM.
PROVERBS 11:2
HE, SHE who turn away from self-righteousness.
86
NOW WHAT I AM COMMANDING YOU TODAY IS NOT TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU OR BEYOND YOUR REACH. IT IS NOT UP IN HEAVEN, SO THAT YOU HAVE TO ASK, “WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN TO GET IT AND PROCLAIM IT TO US SO WE MAY OBEY IT?” NOR IS IT BEYOND THE SEA, SO THAT YOU HAVE TO ASK, “WHO WILL CROSS THE SEA TO GET IT AND PROCLAIM IT TO US SO WE MAY OBEY IT?” NO, THE WORD IS EVER NEAR YOU; IT IS IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART SO YOU MAY OBEY IT.
SEE, I SET BEFORE YOU TODAY LIFE AND PROSPERITY, death and destruction. FOR I COMMAND YOU TODAY TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO WALK IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDS, DECREES AND LAWS; THEN YOU WILL LIVE AND INCREASE, AND THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL BLESS YOU IN THE LAND YOU ARE ENTERING TO POSSESS.
BUT IF YOUR HEART TURNS AWAY AND YOU ARE NOT OBEDIENT, AND IF YOU ARE DRAWN AWAY TO BOW DOWN TO OTHER gods AND WORSHIP THEM, I DECLARE TO YOU THIS DAY THAT YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE DESTROYED. YOU WILL NOT LIVE LONG IN THE LAND YOU ARE CROSSING THE JORDAN TO ENTER AND POSSESS.
DEUTERONOMY 30:11-17
AND IT STANDS THE SAME FOR US TODAY
FOR
THE HEAVENS ARE THE LORD’S HEAVENS,
BUT THE EARTH HE HAS GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF MAN.
THE DEAD DO NOT PRAISE THE LORD,
NOR DO ANY WHO GO DOWN INTO SILENCE.
BUT AS FOR ME, I WILL BLESS AND AFFECTIONATELY AND GRATEFULY PRAISE THE LORD FROM THIS TIME FORTH AND FOREVER.
PRAISE THE LORD, (HALLELUJAH!)
PSALM 115:16-18
87
HE HAS SHOWN YOU, O MORTAL, WHAT IS GOOD.
AND WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU?
TO ACT JUSTLY AND TO LOVE MERCY
AND TO WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD.
MICAH 6:8
WHERE THERE IS STRIFE, THERE IS PRIDE,
BUT WISDOM IS FOUND IN THOSE WHO TAKE ADVICE.
PROVERBS 13:10
I WILL BREAK DOWN YOUR STUBBORN PRIDE
LEVITICUS 26:19
HIS PRIDE LED TO HIS DOWNFALL.
HE WAS UNFAITHFUL TO THE LORD HIS GOD.
2 CHRONICLES 26:16
FOR THE SINS OF THEIR MOUTHS,
FOR THE WORDS OF THEIR LIPS,
LET THEM BE CAUGHT IN THEIR PRIDE.
PSALM 59:12
A MAN’S PRIDE BRINGS HIM LOW,
BUT A MAN OF LOWLY SPIRIT GAINS HONOR.
PROVERBS 29:23
88
I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH AS WITNESSES TODAY
AGAINST YOU, THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU
LIFE AND DEATH,
BLESSING AND CURSING;
THEREFORE,
CHOOSE LIFE,
THAT BOTH YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS MAY LIVE;
THAT YOU MAY LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD,
THAT YOU MAY OBEY HIS VOICE,
AND THAT YOU MAY CLING TO HIM,
FOR HE IS YOUR LIFE AND THE LENGTH OF YOUR DAYS;
AND THAT YOU MAY DWELL IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, TO GIVE THEM.
DEUTERONOMY 30:19-20
AS FOR TODAY
THE HEAVEN, EVEN THE HIGHEST HEAVENS, BELONG TO THE LORD;
BUT THE LAND=THE EARTH HE HAS GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN.
The dead DO NOT PRAISE THE LORD,
NOR any WHO GO DOWN INTO SILENCE.
IT IS I WHO EXTOL THE LORD, BOTH
NOW AND FOREVERMORE.
PRAISE THE LORD.
PSALM 115:16-18
89
THE END OF A MATTER IS BETTER THAN ITS BEGINNING,
AND PATIENCE IS BETTER THAN PRIDE.
ECCLESIASTES 7:8
THE EYES OF THE ARROGANT MAN WILL BE HUMBLED AND THE PRIDE OF MEN BROUGHT LOW; THE LORD ALONE WILL BE EXALTED IN THAT DAY.
ISAIAH 2:11
I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR ITS evil, the wicked FOR THEIR SINS.
I WILL PUT AN END TO THE ARROGANCE OF THE HAUGHTY AND WILL HUMBLE THE PRIDE OF THE RUTHLESS.
ISAIAH 13:19
90
SEE, I AM SETTING BEFORE YOU TODAY
A BLESSING
AND
a curse–
THE BLESSING: IF YOU LISTEN OBEDIENTLY TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD, WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY.
the curse: IF YOU DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD, BUT LEAVE THE ROAD THAT I COMMAND YOU TODAY, FOLLOWING OTHER gods OF WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING.
DEUTERONOMY 11:26-28
91
THE LORD ALMIGHTY PLANNED IT, TO BRING LOW THE PRIDE OF ALL GLORY AND TO HUMBLE ALL WHO ARE RENOWNED ON THE EARTH.
ISAIAH 23:9
BUT WHEN HIS HEART BECAME ARROGANT AND HARDENED WITH PRIDE, HE WAS DEPOSED FROM HIS ROYAL THRONE AND STRIPPED OF HIS GLORY.
DANIEL 5:20
“DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN.”
THEN YOU WILL NOT TAKE PRIDE IN ONE MAN OVER AGAINST ANOTHER.
1 CORINTHIANS 4:6
EACH ONE SHOULD TEST HIS OWN ACTIONS. THEN HE CAN TAKE PRIDE=BE CONFIDENT IN HIMSELF, WITHOUT COMPARING HIMSELF TO SOMEBODY ELSE, FOR EACH ONE SHOULD CARRY HIS OWN LOAD.
GALATIANS 6:4
92
GRACE IS GOD, IN CHRIST-IN THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN TO ME, THROUGH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF HIS SON, EXTENDING HIS LOVE TO ME OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, INSTEAD OF HIS WRATH, GIVING ME ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO COME BACK TO HIM, TO COME INTO HIM AND SEE, EXPERIENCE HIS LOVE FOR ME, REGARDLESS OF THE WRONG THAT I HAVE DONE, TO COME BACK TO THAT PLACE OF FELLOWSHIPING WITH HIM THROUGH REPENTANCE AND FAITH, IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, THE WORD OF GOD IS SPIRIT AND IS TRUTH, RESTING IN THE FINISH WORK OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST. TRUSTING THE LORD, MY GOD, TRUSTING HIS WILLINGNESS AND ABILITY AND FAITHFULNESS TO PROSPER ME, FOR HE TAKES PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY OF HIS SERVANT; HE TAKES GOOD PLEASURE IN GIVING ME HIS KINGDOM.
FOR IF I REGARD INIQUITY IN MY HEART,
IF I CHERISH SIN IN MY HEART
THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR ME.
PSALM 66:18
BUT BY REPENTANCE AND BY CALM, I SHALL BE SAVED
AND BY WAITING AND BY CALM, I SHALL HAVE VICTORY
AND IN QUIET AND IN TRUST LIE MY STRENGTH
THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL WHO HAS GLORIFIED ME!
ISAIAH 11
93
THOUGH THE LORD IS ON HIGH, HE LOOKS UPON THE LOWLY,
BUT the proud HE KNOWS FROM AFAR.
PSALM 138:6
THE LORD DETESTS ALL the proud OF HEART.
BE SURE OF THIS: they WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED.
PROVERBS 16:5
UNLEASH THE FURY OF YOUR WRATH,
LOOK AT every proud man AND BRING him LOW.
JOB 40:11
94
NOW PUT AWAY THE DEMOCRATIC MINDSET
FOR THE KING HAS DOMINION OVER HIS DOMAIN;
WHATEVER HE SAYS GOES
WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU, DO IT!
YOU NOW LIVE UNDER SUBJECTION TO THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN CHRIST JESUS YOUR LORD
TRUST ME IT IS THE MOST WONDERFUL LIFE,
WHOEVER WISHES TO COME AFTER JESUS
MUST DENY HIMSELF,
TAKE UP HIS CROSS,
AND FOLLOW OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
FOR WHOEVER WISHES TO SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT,
BUT WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR JESUS’ SAKE WILL FIND IT.
WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN TO EARN THE WHOLE WORLD AND FORFEIT HIS LIFE? OR WHAT CAN ONE GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS LIFE. FOR THE SON OF MAN WILL COME WITH HIS ANGELS IN HIS FATHER’S GLORY, AND THEN HE WILL REPAY EVERYONE ACCORDING TO HIS CONDUCT. AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, THERE SOME STANDING HERE WHO WILL NOT TASTE DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN HIS KINGDOM.
MATTHEW 16:24-28
95
BETTER TO BE LOWLY IN SPIRIT AND AMONG THE OPPRESSED THAN
TO SHARE PLUNDER WITH THE PROUD.
PROVERBS 16:19
BEFORE HIS DOWNFALL A MAN’S HEART IS PROUD,
BUT HUMILITY COMES BEFORE HONOR.
PROVERBS 18:12
THE LORD ALMIGHTY HAS A DAY IN STORE FOR ALL THE PROUD AND LOFTY, FOR ALL THAT IS EXALTED (AND THEY WILL BE HUMBLED).
ISAIAH 2:12
LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KIND, IT DOES NOT ENVY,
IT DOES NOT BOAST, IT IS NOT PROUD.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS:
“LET NOT THE WISE BOAST OF THEIR WISDOM OR THE STRONG BOAST OF THEIR STRENGTH OR THE RICH BOAST OF THEIR RICHES.
JEREMIAH 9:23
96
CONSIDER IT ALL JOY, MY BROTHERS, WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER VARIOUS TRIALS, FOR YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE. AND LET PERSEVERANCE BE PERFECT, SO THAT YOU MAY BE PERFECT AND COMPLETE, LACKING IN NOTHING. BUT IF ANY OF YOU LACKS WISDOM, HE SHOULD ASK, GOD WHO GIVES TO ALL GENEROUSLY AND UNDGRUDGINGLY, AND HE WILL BE GIVEN IT. BUT HE SHOULD ASK IN FAITH, NOT DOUBTING, FOR THE ONE WHO DOUBTS IS LIKE A WAVE OF THE SEA THAT IS DRIVEN, AND TOSSED ABOUT BY THE WIND. FOR THAT PERSON MUST NOT SUPPOSE THAT HE WILL RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM THE LORD, SINCE HE IS A MAN OF TWO MINDS, UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS.
JAMES 1:1-2-8
97
DO NOTHING OUT OF SELFISH AMBITION OR VAIN CONCEIT.
RATHER, IN HUMILITY VALUE OTHERS ABOVE YOURSELVES.
PHILIPPIANS 2:3
TO FEAR THE LORD IS TO HATE evil;
I HATE PRIDE AND ARROGANCE,
evil BEHAVIOR AND PERVERSE SPEECH.
PROVERBS 8:13
THE LORD DETESTS ALL THE PROUD OF HEART.
BE SURE OF THIS: THEY WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED.
PROVERBS 16:5
BEFORE A DOWNFALL THE HEART IS HAUGHTY,
BUT HUMILITY COMES BEFORE HONOR.
PROVERBS 18:12
98
AND BE QUICK TO LISTEN, SLOW TO SPEAK AND SLOW TO BECOME ANGRY, BECAUSE HUMAN ANGER DOES NOT PRODUCE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT GOD DESIRES. THEREFORE, GET RID OF ALL moral filth and the evil THAT IS SO PREVALENT AND HUMBLY ACCEPT THE WORD PLANTED IN YOU, WHICH CAN SAVE YOU.
DO NOT MERELY LISTEN TO THE WORD, AND SO DECEIVE YOURSELVES. DO WHAT IT SAYS. ANYONE WHO LISTENS TO THE WORD BUT DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IS LIKE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AT HIS FACE IN A MIRROR AND, AFTER LOOKING AT HIMSELF, GOES AWAY AND IMMEDIATELY FORGETS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE. BUT WHOEVER LOOKS INTENTLY INTO THE PERFECT LAW THAT GIVES FREEDOM, AND CONTINUES IN IT–NOT FORGETTING WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD, BUT DOING IT–THEY WILL BE BLESSED IN WHAT THEY DO.
THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES RELIGIOUS AND YET DO NOT KEEP A TIGHT REIN ON THEIR TONGUES DECEIVE THEMSELVES, AND THEIR RELIGION IS WORTHLESS.
RELIGION THAT GOD OUR FATHER ACCEPTS AS PURE AND FAULTLESS IS THIS: TO LOOK AFTER ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR DISTRESS AND TO KEEP ONESELF FROM BEING POLLUTED BY THE WORLD.
JAMES 1:41-27
HE KEEPS THE FEET OF HIS GODLY ONE,
BUT the wicked ones ARE SILENCED IN DARKNESS;
FOR NOT BY MIGHT SHALL A MAN PREVAIL.
1 SAMUEL 2:9
99
HAUGHTY EYES AND A PROUD HEART–
THE UNPLOWED FIELD OF the wicked–
PRODUCE SIN.
PROVERBS 21:4
THE PROUD AND ARROGANT PERSON–
“MOCKER” IS HIS NAME–BEHAVES WITH INSOLENT FURY.
PROVERBS 21:24
IT IS NOT GOOD TO EAT TOO MUCH HONEY,
NOR IS IT HONORABLE TO SEARCH OUT MATTERS
THAT ARE TOO DEEP.
PROVERBS 25:27
100
AS A DOG RETURNS TO ITS VOMIT,
SO A FOOL REPEATS HIS FOLLY.
DO YOU SEE A PERSON WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES?
THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR A FOOL THAN FOR THEM.
PROVERBS 26:11-12
LET SOMEONE ELSE PRAISE YOU,
AND NOT YOUR OWN MOUTH;
AN OUTSIDER, AND NOT YOUR OWN LIPS.
PROVERBS 27:2
101
“BUT MARK THIS: THERE WILL BE TERRIBLE TIMES IN THE LAST DAYS. People WILL BE lovers of themselves, lovers of MONEY, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient TO THEIR PARENTS, ungrateful, unholy, WITHOUT LOVE, unforgiving, slanderous, WITHOUT SELF-CONTROL, brutal, NOT LOVERS OF THE GOOD, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure RATHER THAN LOVERS OF GOD–HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING ITS POWER.
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SUCH PEOPLE.
They are the ones who worm their way into HOMES AND GAIN CONTROL OVER GULLIBLE WOMEN, WHO ARE LOADED DOWN WITH SINS AND ARE SWAYED BY ALL KINDS OF evil desires, ALWAYS LEARNING BUT NEVER ABLE TO COME TO
A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. JUST AS JANNES AND JAMBRES OPPOSED MOSES, SO ALSO these teachers OPPOSE THE TRUTH. they are men of depraved minds, who, AS FAR AS THE FAITH IS CONCERNED, are rejected.
BUT they will not get very far BECAUSE, AS IN THE CASE OF those men, their folly WILL BE CLEAR TO EVERYONE.”
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-9
102
PRIDE BRINGS A PERSON LOW,
BUT THE LOWLY IN SPIRIT GAIN HONOR.
PROVERBS 29:23
THOUGH THE LORD IS EXALTED, HE LOOKS KINDLY ON THE LOWLY; THOUGH LOFTY, HE SEES THEM FROM AFAR.
PSALM 138:6
FOR BY THE GRACE GIVEN ME I SAY TO EVERY ONE OF YOU:
DO NOT THINK OF YOURSELF MORE HIGHLY THAN YOU OUGHT, BUT RATHER THINK OF YOURSELF WITH SOBER JUDGMENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FAITH GOD HAS DISTRIBUTED TO EACH OF YOU.
ROMANS 12:3
103
LIVE IN HARMONY WITH ONE ANOTHER. DO NOT BE PROUD, BUT BE WILLING TO ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF LOW POSITION. DO NOT BE CONCEITED.
ROMANS 12:16
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IF SOMEONE IS CAUGHT IN A SIN,
YOU WHO LIVE BY THE SPIRIT SHOULD RESTORE THAT PERSON GENTLY. BUT WATCH YOURSELVES, OR YOU ALSO MAY BE TEMPTED. CARRY EACH OTHER’S BURDENS, AND IN THIS WAY YOU WILL FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST. IF ANYONE THINKS THEY ARE SOMETHING WHEN THEY ARE NOT, THEY DECEIVE THEMSELVES.
GALATIANS 6:1-3
104
“IN FACT, EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS WILL BE PERSECUTED, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
BUT AS FOR YOU, CONTINUE IN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED AND HAVE BECOME CONVINCED OF, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THOSE FROM WHOM YOU LEARNED IT, AND HOW FROM INFANCY YOU HAVE KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU WISE FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED AND IS USEFUL FOR TEACHING, REBUKING, CORRECTING AND TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, SO THAT THE SERVANT OF GOD MAY BE THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK.”
2 RIMOTHY 3:12-17
105
“HAVE FAITH IN GOD
AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, “BE LIFTED UP AND THROWN INTO THE SEA,” AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART BUT BELIEVES THAT WHAT HE SAYS WILL HAPPEN, IT SHALL BE DONE FOR HIM. THEREFORE I TELL YOU, ALL THAT YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER,
BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IT
AND IT SHALL BE YOURS.
WHEN YOU STAND TO PRAY, FORGIVE ANYONE AGAINST WHOM YOU HAVE A GRIEVANCE, SO THAT YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER MAY IN TURN FORGIVE YOU YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS.”
MARK 11:22-25
106
“KEEP ON ASKING, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE WHAT YOU ASK FOR. KEEP ON SEEKING, AND YOU WILL FIND. KEEP ON KNOCKING, AND THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED TO YOU. FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKS, RECEIVES. EVERYONE WHO SEEKS, FINDS. AND TO EVERYONE WHO KNOCKS, THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED. OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU, IF HIS SON ASKS HIM FOR A LOAF OF BREAD, WILL HAND HIM A STONE? OR IF HE ASKS FOR A FISH, WILL HAND HIM A SERPENT?
IF YOU SINFUL PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD AND ADVANTAGEOUS GIFTS TO YOUR CHILDREN,
HOW MUCH MORE WILL THE FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK HIM!
DO TO OTHERS WHATEVER YOU WOULD LIKE THEM TO DO TO YOU. THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF ALL THAT IS TAUGHT IN THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD THROUGH THE NARROW GATE. THE HIGHWAY TO DESTRUCTION IS BROAD, AND ITS GATE IS WIDE FOR THE MANY WHO CHOOSE THAT WAY. BUT THE GATEWAY TO LIFE IS VERY NARROW AND CONTRACTED BY PRESSURE AND ONLY A FEW EVER FIND IT.
MATTHEW 7:7-15
FOR the love=the wrong relationship with MONEY IS THE ROOT OF all evil: WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH, AND PIERCED THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS.
1 TIMOTHY 6:10
107
“AMEN, I SAY TO YOU, THERE IS NO ONE WHO HAS GIVEN UP HOUSE OR BROTHERS OR SISTERS OR MOTHER OR FATHER OR CHILDREN OR LANDS FOR THE SAKE OF JESUS AND FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL WHO WILL NOT RECEIVE A HUNDRED TIMES MORE IN THIS PRESENT AGE; HOUSES AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND MOTHERS AND CHILDREN AND LANDS, WITH PERSECUTIONS, PLUS ETERNAL LIFE IN THE AGE TO COME. BUT MANY THAT ARE FIRST WILL BE LAST, AND [THE] LAST WILL BE FIRST.”
MARK 10:29-31
108
“THE LORD DOES NOT DELAY HIS PROMISE, AS SOME REGARD “DELAY” BUT HE IS PATIENT WITH YOU, NOT WISHING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME LIKE A THIEF, AND THEN THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A MIGHTY ROAR AND THE ELEMENTS WILL BE DISSOLVED BY FIRE, AND THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING DONE ON IT WILL BE FOUND OUT.”
2 PETER 3::3-10
109
“THEREFORE, I TELL YOU, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT YOU WILL EAT [OR DRINK], OR ABOUT YOUR BODY, WHAT YOU WILL WEAR. IS NOT LIFE MORE THAN FOOD AND THE BODY MORE THAN CLOTHING? LOOK AT THE BIRDS IN THE SKY; THEY DO NOT SOW OR REAP, THEY GATHER NOTHING INTO BARNS, YET YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDS THEM. ARE NOT YOU MORE IMPORTANT THAN THEY? CAN ANY OF YOU BY WORRYING ADD A SINGLE MOMENT TO YOUR LIFE-SPAN?”
110
“WHY ARE YOU ANXIOUS ABOUT CLOTHES?
LEARN FROM THE WAY THE WILD FLOWERS GROW.
THEY DO NOT WORK OR SPIN.
BUT I TELL YOU THAT NOT EVEN SOLOMON IN ALL HIS SPLENDOR WAS CLOTHED LIKE ONE OF THEM. IF GOD SO CLOTHES THE GRASS OF THE FIELD WHICH GROWS TODAY AND IS THROWN INTO THE OVEN TOMORROW, WILL HE NOT MUCH MORE PROVIDE FOR YOU, O YOU OF LITTLE FAITH? SO DO NOT WORRY AND SAY, “WHAT ARE WE TO EAT? OR WHAT ARE WE TO DRINK?” OR “WHAT ARE WE TO WEAR?” ALL THESE THINGS THE PAGANS SEEK,
YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THAT YOU NEED THEM ALL. BUT SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM [OF GOD] AND HIS RIGHTEOUSENESS: HIS WAY OF DOING THINGS,
AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE GIVEN YOU BESIDES.
DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW,
TOMORROW WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.
SUFFICIENT FOR ONE DAY IS ITS OWN EVIL.
MATTHEW 19-34
111
“THE DECISION IS ANNOUNCED BY MESSENGERS, THE HOLY ONES DECLARE THE VERDICT, SO THAT THE LIVING MAY KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL KINGDOMS ON EARTH AND GIVES THEM TO ANYONE HE WISHES AND SETS OVER THEM THE LOWLIEST OF PEOPLE.”
DANIEL 4:17
112
“PRAISE AND EXALT AND GLORIFY THE KING OF HEAVEN,
BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE DOES IS RIGHT AND ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUST. AND those who walk in pride=unwillingness TO COMPLY TO GOD’S WORD AND GOD’S WAY, HE IS ABLE TO HUMBLE.”
DANIEL 4:37
113
“NOW I KNOW THAT THE LORD IS GREATER THAN ALL THE gods;
BECAUSE HE RESCUED HIS PEOPLE FROM the oppression of the proud Egyptians.”
EXODUS 18:11
114
“THE ROCK HIS WORK IS PERFECT, FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUST;
A GOD OF FAITHFULNESS AND WITHOUT INJUSTICE, RIGHTEOUS AND UPRIGHT IS HE.”
DEUTERONOMY 32:4
115
“AS FOR GOD, HIS WAY IS PERFECT; THE WORD OF THE LORD IS FLAWLESS. HE IS A SHIELD TO ALL WHO TAKE REFUGE IN HIM.”
2 SAMUEL 22:31
116
“MAY THEY KNOW THAT YOU ALONE, WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD,
ARE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH.”
PSALM 83:18
117
“THE LORD HAS ESTABLISHED HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN,
AND HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL.”
PSALM 103:19
118
“HE CHANGES THE TIMES AND SEASONS;
HE REMOVES KINGS AND ESTABLISHES THEM.
HE GIVES WISDOM TO THE WISE
AND KNOWLEDGE TO THE DISCERNING.”
DANIEL 2:21
119
“UNLEASH THE FURY OF YOUR WRATH;
LOOK ON EVERY PROUD MAN AND BRING HIM LOW.”
JOB 40:11
120
“LOOK ON EVERY PROUD MAN AND HUMBLE HIM;
TRAMPLE THE WICKED WHERE THEY STAND.”
JOB 40:12
121
“FOR THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPRIGHT,
AND ALL HIS WORK IS TRUSTWORTHY.”
PSALM 33:4
122
“THE DECISION IS ANNOUNCED BY MESSENGERS, THE HOLY ONES DECLARE THE VERDICT, SO THAT THE LIVING MAY KNOW THAT
THE MOST HIGH IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL KINGDOMS
ON EARTH AND GIVES THEM TO ANYONE HE WISHES AND SETS OVER THEM THE LOWLIEST OF PEOPLE.”
DANIEL 4:17
123
“EVERYONE MUST SUBMIT HIMSELF TO THE GOVERNING AUTHORITIES, FOR THERE IS NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT THAT WHICH IS FROM GOD. THE AUTHORITIES THAT EXIST HAVE BEEN APPOINTED BY GOD.”
ROMANS 13:1
124
“HE RAISES THE POOR FROM THE DUST AND LIFTS THE NEEDY FROM THE ASH HEAP. HE SEATS THEM AMONG PRINCES AND BESTOWS ON THEM A THRONE OF HONOR. FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH ARE THE LORD’S, AND UPON THEM HE HAS SET THE WORLD.”
1 SAMUEL 2:8
125
“THE LORD IS KNOWN BY THE JUSTICE HE BRINGS;
the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
HIGAION. SELAH.”
PSALM 9:16
126
“MAY THEY KNOW THAT YOU ALONE,
WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD,
ARE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH.”
PSALM 83:18
127
“THE LORD IS A WARRIOR,
THE LORD IS HIS NAME.”
EXODUS 15:3
128
“THE LORD THUNDERED FROM HEAVEN;
THE VOICE OF THE MOST HIGH RESOUNDED–
HAILSTONES AND COALS OF FIRE.”
PSALM 18:13
129
“CONSUME THEM IN WRATH; CONSUME THEM TILL THEY ARE NO MORE, SO IT MAY BE KNOWN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH THAT
GOD RULES OVER JACOB. SELAH”
PSALM 59:13
130
“FOR YOU ARE GREAT AND PERFORM WONDERS;
YOU ALONE ARE GOD.”
PSALM 86:10
131
SENSELESS PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW,
FOOLS DO NOT UNDERSTAND,
THAT THOUGH THE WICKED SPRING UP LIKE GRASS
AND ALL EVILDOERS FLOURISH,
THEY WILL BE DESTROYED FOREVER.
“BUT YOU, O LORD, ARE EXALTED FOREVER.
FOR SURELY YOUR ENEMIES, LORD,
SURELY YOUR ENEMIES WILL PERISH;
ALL EVILDOERS WILL BE SCATTERED.
PSALM 92:6-9
132
“FOR YOU, O LORD, ARE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH;
YOU ARE EXALTED FAR ABOVE all gods.”
PSALM 97:9
133
“I AM THE LORD; THAT IS MY NAME!
I WILL NOT GIVE MY GLORY TO another
OR MY PRAISE TO idols.”
ISAIAH 42:8
134
THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU,
HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE.
ZEPHANIAH 3:17
AND HE DIED FOR ALL, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE SHOULD NO LONGER LIVE FOR THEMSELVES BUT FOR HIM WHO DIED FOR THEM AND WAS RAISED AGAIN.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15
135
THE RIGHTEOUS WILL FLOURISH LIKE A PALM TREE,
THEY WILL GROW LIKE A CEDAR OF LEBANON;
PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
THEY WILL FLOURISH IN THE COURTS OF OUR GOD.
THEY WILL STILL BEAR FRUIT IN OLD AGE,
THEY WILL STAY FRESH AND GREEN,
PROCLAIMING, “THE LORD IS UPRIGHT;
HE IS MY ROCK, AND THERE IS NO WICKEDNESS IN HIM.”
PSALM 92:12-15
136
“BY MY GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM, I MADE THE EARTH AND THE MEN AND BEASTS ON THE FACE OF IT,
AND I GIVE IT TO WHOM I PLEASE.”
JEREMIAH 27:5
137
“FOR IN THE HAND OF THE LORD THERE IS A CUP,
AND THE WINE IS RED;
IT IS FULLY MIXED, AND HE POURS IT OUT;
SURELY ITS DREGS SHALL ALL THE WICKED OF THE EARTH
DRAIN AND DRINK DOWN”
PSALM 75:8
138
“BY MY GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM, I MADE THE EARTH AND THE MEN AND BEASTS ON THE FACE OF IT, AND I GIVE IT TO WHOM I PLEASE.”
JEREMIAH 27:5
139
GOD MADE THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH ACCORDING TO THEIR KINDS,
THE LIVESTOCK ACCORDING TO THEIR KINDS,
AND EVERYTHING THAT CRAWLS UPON THE EARTH ACCORDING TO ITS KIND.
AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
GENESIS 1:25
140
“THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND EVERYTHING IN THEM. HE REMAINS FAITHFUL FOREVER.”
PSALM 146:6
141
“IT IS I WHO MADE THE EARTH, AND CREATED MAN UPON IT. IT WAS MY HANDS THAT STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS, AND I ORDAINED ALL THEIR HOST.”
ISAIAH 45:12
142
“THUS YOU ARE TO TELL THEM: ‘these gods, who have made neither THE HEAVENS NOR THE EARTH WILL PERISH FROM THIS EARTH AND FROM UNDER THESE HEAVENS.’
GOD MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER; HE ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY HIS WISDOM AND STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS BY HIS UNDERSTANDING.”
JEREMIAH 10:11-12
143
“OH, LORD GOD! YOU HAVE MADE THE HEAVENS AND EARTH BY YOUR GREAT POWER AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM. NOTHING IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU!”
JEREMIAH 32:170
144
“HE MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER; HE ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY HIS WISDOM AND STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS BY HIS UNDERSTANDING. WHEN HE THUNDERS, THE WATERS IN THE HEAVENS ROAR, AND HE CAUSES THE CLOUDS TO RISE FROM
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.”
JEREMIAH 51:15-16
145
IF ANYONE WORSHIPS the beast and its image, AND RECEIVES its marks ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND, HE TOO WILL DRINK THE WINE OF GOD’S ANGER, POURED UNDILUTED INTO THE CUP OF HIS WRATH. AND HE WILL BE TORMENTED IN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE
IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY ANGELS AND OF THE LAMB.
REVELATION 14:9-10
146
LET HIS OWN EYES SEE HIS DESTRUCTION;
LET HIM DRINK FOR HIMSELF THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY.
JOB 21:20
147
ON the wicked HE WILL RAIN FIERY COALS AND BRIMSTONE;
A SCORCHING WIND WILL BE THEIR PORTION.
PSALM 11:6
148
YOU HAVE SHOWN YOUR PEOPLE HARDSHIP;
WE ARE STAGGERED FROM THE WINE YOU MADE US DRINK.
PSALM 60:3
149
HE SAID IN A LOUD VOICE,
‘FEAR GOD AND GIVE HIM GLORY,
BECAUSE THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME.
WORSHIP THE ONE WHO MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE SEA AND THE SPRINGS OF WATERS.”
REVELATION 14:7
150
FOR GREAT IS HIS LOVING DEVOTION TO US,
AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.
HALLELUJAH!
PSALM 117:2
151
“DO NOT BE DECEIVED: GOD CANNOT BE MOCKED. WHATSOEVER A MAN OR A NATION SOWS THAT ALSO HE OR THEY SHALL REAP IN RETURN. THE ONE WHO SOWS TO PLEASE HIS FLESH, FROM THE FLESH WILL REAP DESTRUCTION; BUT THE ONE WHO SOWS TO PLEASE THE SPIRIT, FROM THE SPIRIT WILL REAP ETERNAL LIFE!”
GALATIANS 6:7-8
152
“ACCORDING TO WHAT I HAVE SEEN, THOSE WHO PLOW INIQUITY AND THOSE WHO SOW TROUBLE HARVEST IT.”
JOB 4:8
153
“THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND BRING FORTH INIQUITY,
AND THEIR MIND PREPARES DECEPTION.”
JOB 15:35
154
HE HAS DUG A PIT AND HOLLOWED IT OUT,
AND HAS FALLEN INTO THE HOLE WHICH HE MADE.
PSALM 7:15
155
“SO THEY SHALL EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THEIR OWN WAY
AND BE SATIATED WITH THEIR OWN DEVICES.”
PROVERBS 1:31
156
HE WHO SOWS INIQUITY WILL REAP VANITY,
AND THE ROD OF HIS FURY WILL PERISH.
PROVERBS 22:8
157
IN THE DAY THAT YOU PLANT IT YOU CAREFULLY FENCE IT IN,
AND IN THE MORNING YOU BRING YOUR SEED TO BLOSSOM;
BUT THE HARVEST WILL BE A HEAP IN A DAY OF SICKLINESS
AND INCURABLE PAIN.
ISAIAH 17:11
158
“YOU HAVE PLOWED WICKEDNESS, YOU HAVE REAPED INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE EATEN THE FRUIT OF LIES. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TRUSTED IN YOUR WAY, IN YOUR NUMEROUS WARRIORS,”
HOSEA 10:13
159
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION:
BUT SIN A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE.
PROVERBS 14:34
160
YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.
EXODUS 20:13
“IF ANYONE SHEDS THE BLOOD OF MAN,
BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED;
FOR IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
HAS MAN BEEN MADE.”
GENESIS 9:6
161*
THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD, YOUR MAKER,
WHO FORMED YOU FROM THE WOMB AND WILL HELP YOU:
ISAIAH 44:2
162
THUS SAYS THE LORD, YOUR REDEEMER WHO FORMED YOU FROM THE WOMB: “I AM THE LORD, WHO HAS MADE ALL THINGS, WHO ALONE STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS, WHO BY MYSELF SPREAD OUT THE EARTH. WHO FOILS THE SIGNS OF FALSE PROPHETS AND MAKES FOOLS OF DIVINERS, WHO CONFOUNDS THE WISE AND TURNS THEIR KNOWLEDGE INTO NONSENSE.
ISAIAH 44:24-25
163*
AND NOW SAYS THE LORD, WHO FORMED ME FROM THE WOMB
TO BE HIS SERVANT…
ISAIAH 49:5
164
“BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU, AND BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I SET YOU APART AND APPOINTED YOU
A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.”
JEREMIAH 1:5
165
THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO A MAN,
BUT ITS END IS THE WAY OF DEATH.
PROVERBS 14:12
166
SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE;
IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATD HIM;
MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.
GENESIS 1:27
167
JESUS ANSWERED, “HAVE YOU NOT READ THAT FROM THE BEGINNING THE CREATOR ‘MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.’
MATTHEW 19:4
168
HOWEVER, FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION,
‘GOD MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.’
MARK 10:6
169
A MAN OUGHT NOT TO COVER HIS HEAD,
SINCE HE IS THE IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD;
BUT THE WOMAN IS THE GLORY OF MAN.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:7
170
ONLY THIS HAVE I FOUND: I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT GOD MADE MEN UPRIGHT, BUT THEY HAVE SOUGHT OUT MANY SCHEMES.
ECCLESIASTES 7:29
171
“FOR MY PEOPLE ARE FOOLS;
THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN ME.
THEY ARE FOOLISH CHILDREN,
WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING.
THEY ARE SKILLED IN DOING evil,
BUT THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO GOOD.”
JEREMIAH 4:22
172
“HE KEEPS THE FEET OF HIS GODLY ONE,
BUT the wicked ones are silenced in darkness;
FOR NOT BY MIGHT SHALL A MAN PREVAIL.”
1 SAMUEL 2:9
173
“DO NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR’S WIFE AND DEFILE YOURSELF WITH HER.”
LEVITICUS 18:20
174
“DO NOT GIVE ANY OF YOUR CHILDREN TO BE SACRIFICED TO MOLEK, FOR YOU MUST NOT PROFANE THE NAME OF YOUR GOD.
I AM THE LORD.”
LEVITICUS 18:21
175
DO NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A MAN AS ONE DOES WITH A WOMAN; THAT IS DETESTABLE=AN ABOMINATION.
LEVITICUS 18:22
176
DO NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH AN ANIMAL AND DEFILE YOURSELF WITH IT. A WOMAN MUST NOT PRESENT HERSELF TO AN ANIMAL TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH IT; THAT IS A PERVERSION.”
LEVITICUS 18:23
177
“THE WRATH OF GOD IS BEING REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL THE GODLESSNESS AND WICKEDNESS OF PEOPLE, WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH BY THEIR WICKEDNESS, SINCE WHAT MAY BE KNOWN ABOUT GOD IS PLAIN TO THEM BECAUSE GOD HAS MADE IT PLAIN TO THEM.”
ROMANS 1:18-19
178
FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD GOD’S INVISIBLE QUALITIES–HIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE–HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE, SO THAT PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.
ROMANS 1:20
179
“FOR ALTHOUGH THEY KNEW GOD, THEY NEITHER GLORIFIED HIM AS GOD NOR GAVE THANKS TO HIM, BUT THEIR THINKING BECAME FUTILE AND THEIR FOOLISH HEARTS WERE DARKENED. ALTHOUGH THEY CLAIMED TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS AND EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF THE IMMORTAL GOD FOR IMAGES MADE TO LOOK LIKE A MORTAL HUMAN BEING AND BIRDS AND ANIMALS AND REPTILES.”
ROMANS 1:21-23
180
“THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM OVER IN THE SINFUL DESIRES OF THEIR HEARTS TO SEXUAL IMPURITY FOR THE DEGRADING OF THEIR BODIES WITH ONE ANOTHER.
THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD FOR A LIE, AND WORSHIPED AND SERVED CREATED THINGS RATHER THAN THE CREATOR–WHO IS FOREVER PRAISED. AMEN.”
ROMANS 1:24-25
181
“BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO SHAMEFUL LUSTS. EVEN THEIR WOMEN EXCHANGED NATURAL SEXUAL RELATIONS FOR UNNATURAL ONES.
IN THE SAME WAY THE MEN ALSO ABANDONED NATURAL RELATIONS WITH WOMEN AND WERE INFLAMED WITH LUST FOR ONE ANOTHER. MEN COMMITTED SHAMEFUL ACTS WITH OTHER MEN, AND RECEIVED IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR.”
ROMANS 1:26-27
182
“FURTHERMORE, JUST AS THEY DID NOT THINK IT WORTHWHILE TO RETAIN
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, SO GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEPRAVED MIND, SO THAT THEY DO WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE. THEY HAVE BECOME FILLED WITH EVERY KIND OF WICKEDNESS, EVIL, GREED AND DEPRAVITY.”
ROMANS 1:28
183
“THEY ARE FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, STRIFE, DECEIT AND MALICE.
THEY ARE GOSSIPERS, SLANDERERS, GOD-HATERS, INSOLENT, ARROGANT AND BOASTFUL; THEY INVENT WAYS OF DOING EVIL; THEY DISOBEY THEIR PARENTS; THEY HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING, NO FIDELITY, NO LOVE, NO MERCY. ALTHOUGH THEY KNOW GOD’S RIGHTEOUS DECREE THAT THOSE WHO DO SUCH THINGS DESERVE DEATH, THEY NOT ONLY CONTINUE TO DO THESE VERY THINGS BUT ALSO APPROVE OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM.”
ROMANS 1:28-32
184
“HEAR O CHILDREN, A FATHER’S INSTRUCTION,
BE ATTENTIVE, THAT YOU MAY GAIN UNDERSTANDING!
YES, EXCELLENT ADVICE I GIVE YOU;
MY TEACHING DO NOT FORSAKE,
WHEN I WAS MY FATHER’S CHILD,
FRAIL, YET THE DARLING OF MY MOTHER,
HE TAUGHT ME, AND SAID TO ME:
“LET YOUR HEART HOLD FAST MY WORDS;
KEEP MY COMMANDS, THAT YOU MAY LIVE!
GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING!
DO NOT FORGET OR TURN ASIDE
FROM THE WORDS I UTTER.”
185
WISDOM
“FORSAKE HER NOT, AND SHE WILL PRESERVE YOU;
LOVE HER, AND SHE WILL SAFEGUARD YOU.
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM IS GET WISDOM;
AT THE COST OF ALL YOU HAVE, GET UNDERSTANDING.
EXTOL HER, AND SHE WILL EXALT YOU;
SHE WILL BRING YOU HONORS IF YOU EMBRACE HER;
SHE WILL PUT ON YOUR HEAD A GRACEFUL DIADEM,
A GLORIOUS CROWN WILL SHE BESTOW ON YOU.”
186
HEAR, MY SON, AND RECEIVE MY WORDS,
AND THE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE SHALL BE MANY,
I LEAD YOU ON STRAIGHTFORWARD PATHS.
WHEN YOU WALK, YOUR STEP WILL NOT BE IMPEDED,
AND SHOULD YOU RUN, YOU WILL NOT STUMBLE.
HOLD FAST TO INSTRUCTION, NEVER LET HER GO;
KEEP HER, FOR SHE IS YOUR LIFE.
187
THE PATH OF the wicked ENTER NOT,
WALK NOT ON THE WAY OF EVIL MEN;
SHUN IT, CROSS IT NOT,
TURN ASIDE FROM IT, AND PASS ON.
FOR THEY CANNOT REST UNLESS THEY HAVE DONE EVIL;
TO HAVE MADE NO ONE STUMBLE STEALS AWAY THEIR SLEEP.
FOR THEY EAT THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS
AND DRINK THE WINE OF VIOLENCE.
188
THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS LIKE DARKNESS;
THEY KNOW NOT ON WHAT THEY STUMBLE.
BUT THE PATH OF THE JUST IS LIKE SHINING LIGHT,
THAT GROWS IN BRILLIANCE TILL PERFECT DAY.
189
MY SON, TO MY WORDS BE ATTENTIVE,
TO MY SAYINGS INCLINE YOUR EAR;
LET THEM NOT SLIP OUT OF YOUR SIGHT,
KEEP THEM WITHIN YOUR HEART;
FOR THEY ARE LIFE TO THOSE WHO FIND THEM,
TO MAN’S WHOLE BEING THEY ARE HEALTH.
WITH CLOSEST CUSTODY, GUARD YOUR HEART,
FOR IN IT ARE THE SOURCES OF LIFE.
190
PUT AWAY FROM YOU DISHONEST TALK,
DECEITFUL SPEECH PUT FAR FROM YOU.
LET YOUR EYES LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD
AND YOUR GLANCE BE DIRECTLY FORWARD.
SURVEY THE PATH FOR YOUR FEET,
AND LET ALL YOUR WAYS BE SURE.
TURN NEITHER TO RIGHT NOR TO LEFT,
KEEP YOUR FOOT FAR FROM EVIL.
PROVERBS 4
191
DOES NOT WISDOM CALL,
AND UNDERSTANDING RAISE HER VOICE?
ON THE TOP OF THE HEIGHTS ALONG THE ROAD,
AT THE CROSSROADS SHE TAKES HER STAND;
BY THE GATES AT THE APPROACHES OF THE CITY,
IN THE ENTRYWAYS SHE CRIES ALOUD:
“TO YOU, O MEN, I CALL;
MY APPEAL IS TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN.
YOU SIMPLE ONES, GAIN RESOURCE,
YOU SIMPLE, ONES, GAIN RESOURCE,
YOU FOOLS, GAIN SENSE.
192
GIVE HEED! FOR NOBLE THINGS I SPEAK;
HONESTY OPENS MY LIPS.
YES, THE TRUTH MY MOUTH RECOUNTS,
BUT WICKEDNESS MY LIPS ABHOR.
SINCERE ARE ALL THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH,
NO ONE OF THEM IS WILY OR CROOKED;
ALL OF THEM ARE PLAIN TO THE MAN OF INTELLIGENCE,
AND RIGHT TO THOSE WHO ATTAIN KNOWLEDGE.
193
RECEIVE MY INSTRUCTION IN PREFERENCE TO SILVER,
AND KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN CHOICE GOLD.
FOR WISDOM, IS BETTER THAN CORALS
AND NO CHOICE POSSESSION CAN COMPARE WITH HER.
194
I WISDOM, DWELL WITH EXPERIENCE
AND JUDICIOUS KNOWLEDGE I ATTAIN.
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO HATE EVIL.
PRIDE, ARROGANCE, THE EVIL WAY,
AND THE PERVERSE MOUTH I HATE.
MINE ARE COUNSEL AND ADVICE;
MINE IS STRENGTH;
I AM UNDERSTANDING.
BY ME KINGS REIGN,
AND LAWGIVERS ESTABLISH JUSTICE.
BY ME PRINCES GOVERN,
AND NOBLES, ALL THE RULERS OF EARTH.
THOSE WHO LOVE ME I ALSO LOVE,
AND THOSE WHO SEEK ME FIND ME.
195
WITH ME ARE RICHES AND HONOR,
ENDURING WEALTH AND PROSPERITY
MY FRUIT IS BETTER THAN GOLD,
YES, THAN PURE GOLD,
AND MY REVENUE THAN CHOICE SILVER.
ON THE WAY OF DUTY I WALK,
ALONG THE PATHS OF JUSTICE,
CREATING WEALTH TO THOSE WHO LOVE ME,
AND FILLING THEIR TREASURIES.
196
THE LORD BEGOT ME, THE FIRSTBORN OF HIS WAYS,
THE FORERUNNER OF HIS PRODIGIES OF LONG AGO;
FROM OF OLD I WAS POURED FORTH,
AT THE FIRST, BEFORE THE EARTH.
WHEN THERE WERE NO DEPTHS I WAS BROUGHT FORTH,
WHEN THERE WERE NO FOUNTAINS OR SPRINGS OF WATER.
BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE SETTLED INTO PLACE,
BEFORE THE HILLS I WAS BROUGHT FORTH;
WHILE AS YET THE EARTH AND THE FIELDS WERE NOT MADE,
NOR THE FIRST CLODS OF THE WORLD.
197
WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS, I WAS THERE,
WHEN HE MARKED OUT THE VAULT OVER THE FACE OF THE DEEP
WHEN HE MADE FIRM THE SKIES ABOVE,
WHEN HE FIXED FAST THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH.
WHEN HE SET FOR THE SEA ITS LIMIT,
SO THAT THE WATERS SHOULD NOT TRANSGRESS HIS COMMAND;
THEN WAS I BESIDE HIM AS HIS CRAFTSMAN,
AND I WAS HIS DELIGHT DAY BY DAY.
PLAYING BEFORE HIM ALL THE WHILE,
PLAYING ON THE SURFACE OF HIS EARTH;
AND I FOUND DELIGHT IN THE SONS OF MEN.
198
SO NOW, O CHILDREN, LISTEN TO ME,
INSTRUCTION AND WISDOM DO NOT REJECT!
HAPPY THE MAN WHO OBEYS ME,
AND HAPPY THOSE WHO KEEP MY WAYS,
HAPPY THE MAN WATCHING DAILY AT MY GATES,
WAITING AT MY DOORPOSTS;
FOR HE WHO FINDS ME FINDS LIFE,
AND WINS FAVOR FROM THE LORD;
BUT HE WHO MISSES ME HARMS HIMSELF,
ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH.”
PROVERBS 8
199
BE NOT DECEIVED, MY BELOVED BROTHERS, ALL GOOD GIVINGS AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, COMING DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHT, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO ALTERATION OR SHADOW CAUSED BY CHANGE, HE WILLED TO GIVE US BIRTH BY THE WORD OF TRUTH THAT WE MAY BE A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS CREATURES;
JAMES 1:16-18
EVERY MAN ALSO TO WHOM GOD HATH GIVEN RICHES AND WEALTH, AND HATH GIVEN HIM POWER TO EAT THEREOF, AND TO TAKE HIS PORTION, AND TO REJOICE IN HIS LABOUR, THIS IS THE GIFT OF GOD.
ECCLESIASTES 5:19
FOR IT IS THE BLESSING OF THE LORD THAT MAKES LIFE TRULY RICH, AND HE ADDS NO SORROW WITH IT
NEITHER DOES TOILING INCREASE IT!!!!!!!!!!
PROVERBS 10:22
FOR YOU KNOW THE GRACIOUS ACT OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT FOR YOUR SAKE HE BECAME POOR ALTHOUGH HE WAS RICH, SO THAT BY HIS POVERTY YOU MIGHT BECOME RICH.
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9
BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD, FOR ANYONE WHO APPROACHES GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT GOD EXISTS AND HE REWARDS THOSE WHO SEEK HIM.
HEBREWS 11:6
200
LISTEN YOU WHO PURSUE JUSTICE,
WHO SEEK THE LORD,
LISTEN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD;
LOOK TO THE ROCK
FROM WHICH YOU WERE HEWN,
TO YOUR GLORIOUS ANCESTRY
FROM WHICH YOU WERE QUARRIED;
LOOK TO ABRAHAM, YOUR FATHER,
AND TO SARAH, WHO GAVE YOU BIRTH;
WHEN HE WAS BUT ONE I CALLED HIM,
I BLESSED HIM AND MADE HIM MANY.
YES, THE LORD SHALL COMFORT ZION
AND HAVE PITY ON ALL HER RUINS;
HER DESERTS HE SHALL MAKE LIKE EDEN,
HER WASTELAND LIKE THE GARDEN OF THE LORD;
JOY AND GLADNESS SHALL BE FOUND IN HER,
THANKSGIVING AND THE SOUND OF SONG.
ISAIAH 51:1
201
ONE MAN SCATTERS YET GROWS STILL RICHER,
ANOTHER WITHHOLDS MORE THAN HIS RIGHT,
IT LEADS TO POVERTY.
THE GENEROUS SOUL WILL BE MADE RICH,
AND HE WHO WATERS WILL ALSO BE WATERED
HIMSELF;
PROVERBS 11:24-25
FAITH WORKS BY LOVE
AND LOVE NEVER FAILS;
WE SURVIVE THE WEALTH TRANSFER:
BY LOVING,
BY TITHING,
BY SOWING,
BY OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD,
THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,
BY SERVING!!!!!!!!!!
AMEN
YES, DAYS ARE HERE,
SAYS THE LORD,
WHEN THE PLOWMAN SHALL OVERTAKE THE REAPER,
AND THE VINTAGER, HIM WHO SOWS THE SEED;
THE JUICE OF GRAPES SHALL DRIP DOWN THE FOUNTAINS,
AND ALL THE HILLS SHALL BOW TO THE POWER OF GOD.
AMOS 9:13
202
SEE I AM SENDING YOU GRAIN AND WINE, AND OIL,
AND YOU SHALL BE FILLED WITH THEM;
NO MORE WILL I MAKE YOU A REPROACH
A REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS.
NO, THE NORTHERNER I WILL REMOVE FAR FROM YOU,
AND DRIVE HIM OUT INTO A LAND ARID AND WASTE,
WITH HIS VAN TOWARD THE EASTERN SEA,
AND HIS REAR TOWARD THE WESTERN SEA;
AND HIS FOULNESS SHALL GO UP,
AND HIS STENCH SHALL GO UP.
FEAR NOT, O LAND!
EXULT AND REJOICE!
FOR THE LORD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS.
FEAR NOT, BEAST OF THE FIELD!
FOR THE PASTURES OF THE PLAIN ARE GREEN;
THE TREE BEARS ITS FRUIT,
THE FIG TREE AND THE VINE GIVE THEIR YIELD.
203
AND DO YOU, O CHILDREN OF ZION, EXULT
AND REJOICE IN THE LORD, YOUR GOD!
HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE TEACHER OF JUSTICE:
HE HAS MADE THE RAIN COME DOWN FOR YOU,
THE EARLY AND THE LATE RAIN AS BEFORE.
THE TRESHING FLOORS ARE BEING FULL OF GRAIN
AND THE VATS ARE OVERFLOWING WITH WINE AND OIL,
AND I WILL REPAY YOU FOR THE YEARS
WHICH THE LOCUST HAS EATEN,
THE GRASSHOPPER, THE DEVOURER, AND THE CUTTER,
MY GREAT ARMY WHICH I SENT AMONG YOU.
YOU SHALL EAT AND BE FILLED,
AND SHALL PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD,
BECAUSE HE HAS DEALT WONDROUSLY WITH YOU;
MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVER MORE BE PUT TO SHAME.
AND YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL;
I AM THE LORD, YOUR GOD, AND THERE IS NO OTHER;
MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVERMORE BE PUT TO SHAME.
THEN AFTERWARD I WILL POUR OUT
MY SPIRIT UPON ALL MANKIND.
YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY,
YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS,
YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS;
EVEN UPON THE SERVANTS AND THE HANDMAIDS,
IN THOSE DAYS, I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT.
AND I WILL WORK WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS
AND ON THE EARTH,
BLOOD, FIRE, AND COLUMNS OF SMOKE;
THE SUN WILL BE TURNED TO DARKNESS,
AND THE MOON TO BLOOD,
AT THE COMING OF THE DAY OF THE LORD,
THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY.
THEN EVERYONE SHALL BE RESCUED
WHO CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD;
FOR ON MOUNT ZION THERE SHALL BE A REMNANT,
AS THE LORD HAS SAID,
AND IN JERUSALEM SURVIVORS
WHO THE LORD SHALL CALL.
JOEL 3:19-27, JOEL 3:1-5
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“COME, ALL YOU WHO ARE THIRSTY,
COME TO THE WATERS;
AND YOU WHO HAVE NO MONEY,
COME, BUY AND EAT!
COME, BUY WINE AND MILK
WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT COST.
WHY SPEND MONEY ON WHAT IS NOT BREAD,
AND YOUR LABOR ON WHAT DOES NOT SATISFY?
LISTEN, LISTEN TO ME, AND EAT WHAT IS GOOD,
AND YOU WILL DELIGHT IN THE RICHEST OF FARE.
GIVE EAR AND COME TO ME;
LISTEN, THAT YOU MAY LIVE.
I WILL MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU,
MY FAITHFUL LOVE PROMISED TO DAVID.
SEE, I HAVE MADE HIM A WITNESS TO THE PEOPLES,
A RULER AND COMMANDER OF THE PEOPLES.
SURELY YOU WILL SUMMON NATIONS YOU KNOW NOT,
AND NATIONS YOU DO NOT KNOW WILL COME RUNNING TO YOU,
BECAUSE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD,
THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL,
FOR HE HAD ENDOWED YOU WITH SPLENDOR.
SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND;
CALL ON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR.
LET THE WICKED FORSAKE THEIR WAYS
AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS THEIR THOUGHTS.
LET THEM TURN TO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY ON THEM, AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL FREELY PARDON.”
“FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS,
NEITHER ARE YOUR WAYS MY WAYS,”
DECLARES THE LORD.
“AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER THAN THE EARTH,
SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS
AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.
AS THE RAIN AND THE SNOW
COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN,
AND DO NOT RETURN TO IT
WITHOUT WATERING THE EARTH
AND MAKING IT BUD AND FLOURISH,
SO THAT IT YIELDS SEED FOR THE SOWER
AND BREAD FOR THE EATER,
SO IS MY WORD THAT GOES OUT FROM MY MOUTH:
IT WILL NOT RETURN TO ME EMPTY,
BUT WILL ACCOMPLISH WHAT I DESIRE
AND ACHIEVE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH I SENT IT.
YOU WILL GO OUT IN JOY
AND LED FORTH IN PEACE;
THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS
WILL BURST INTO SONG BEFORE YOU,
AND ALL THE TREES OF THE FIELD
WILL CLAP THEIR HANDS.
INSTEAD OF THE THORNBUSH WILL GROW THE
JUNIPER,
AND INSTEAD OF BRIERS THE MYRTLE WILL GROW.
THIS WILL BE FOR THE LORD’S RENOWN,
FOR AN EVERLASTING SIGN,
THAT WILL ENDURE FOREVER.”
ISAIAH 55
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BLESSED IS THE ONE
WHO DOES NOT WALK IN STEP WITH THE WICKED
OR STAND IN THE WAY THAT SINNERS TAKE
OR SIT IN THE COMPANY OF MOCKERS,
BUT WHOSE DELIGHT IS IN THE LAW OF THE LORD,
AND WHO MEDITATES ON HIS LAW DAY AND NIGHT.
THAT PERSON IS LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY STREAMS OF WATER,
WHICH YIELDS ITS FRUIT IN SEASON
AND WHOSE LEAF DOES NOT WITHER–
WHATEVER THEY DO PROSPERS.
NOT SO THE WICKED!
THEY ARE LIKE CHAFF
THAT THE WIND BLOWS AWAY.
THEREFORE THE WICKED WILL NOT STAND IN THE JUDGMENT,
NOR SINNERS IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
FOR THE LORD WATCHES OVER THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS,
BUT THE WAY OF THE WICKED LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.
PSALM 1
JESUS IS LORD! 