31 Tuesday Jul 2018
Posted in God, Holiness, Jesus Christ, Purity
13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a]
– 1 Peter 1
a. Lev. 11:44,45; 19:2
15 Sunday Jul 2018
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“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”
~ Song of Solomon 8:6
01 Sunday Jul 2018
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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
– Ephesians 5:25-33
27 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in 1 Corinthians, Bible, God, Jesus Christ, Sex, Women
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/1co.7.5.ESV
It’s easy to miss this implicit command. We often neglect and disregard the importance of her pleasure.
Even the best Bible teachers and commenters tend to assume sexual deprivation is a male problem.
A great pastor recently apologized for missing this himself.
Thank God for his word, which corrects our presuppositions and implicit biases, if we’re open to being corrected.
17 Sunday Jun 2018
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45 My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;
I address my verses to the king;
my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
2 You are the most handsome of the sons of men;
grace is poured upon your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
in your splendor and majesty!
4 In your majesty ride out victoriously
for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness;
let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!
5 Your arrows are sharp
in the heart of the king’s enemies;
the peoples fall under you.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
7 you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
8 your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;
9 daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;
at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
forget your people and your father’s house,
11 and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him.
12 The people[b] of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people.[c]
13 All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
14 In many-colored robes she is led to the king,
with her virgin companions following behind her.
15 With joy and gladness they are led along
as they enter the palace of the king.
16 In place of your fathers shall be your sons;
you will make them princes in all the earth.
17 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.
03 Sunday Jun 2018
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
31 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 1
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. NIV
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. AMP
30 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. KJV
29 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 3
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” NIV
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. KJV
28 Monday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 4
27 Sunday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 5
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God NIV
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; KJV
26 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Bible, Ephesians, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 6
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – NIV
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: KJV
25 Friday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 7
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. NIV
24 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 8
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. KJV
23 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 9
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness NIV
22 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 10
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. KJV
21 Monday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 11
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. KJV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. NIV
20 Sunday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 12
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” NIV
19 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 13
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – NIV
18 Friday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 14
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. NIV
17 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 15
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. KJV
16 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 16
God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. [Ps. 104:30; Heb. 1:2; 11:3.] AMP
15 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 17
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is true worship. NIV
14 Monday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 18
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. NIV
13 Sunday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 19
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” NIV
12 Saturday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 20
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. KJV
11 Friday May 2018
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Bible Rank: 21
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. KJV
10 Thursday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 22
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. KJV
09 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 23
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. NIV
08 Tuesday May 2018
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ
Bible Rank: 24
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved.” NIV
