Month: May 2016

Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.
Hebrews 1:1 (NLT)

And now in these final days, He has spoken to us through His Son. God promised everything to The Son as an inheritance, and through The Son He created the universe.
Hebrews 1:2 (NLT)

Through His power all things were made – things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.
Colossians 1:16 (NCV)

We have only one God, and He is The Father. He created everything, and we live for Him. Jesus Christ is our only Lord. Everything was made by Him, and by Him life was given to us.
I Corinthians 8:6 (CEV)

The Word (Christ) was in the beginning. The Word was with God. The Word was God.
John 1:1 (NLV)

He was with God in the beginning.
John 1:2 (NLV)

He made all things. Nothing was made without Him making it.
John 1:3 (NLV)

Now that we are His children, God has sent The Spirit of His Son into our hearts. And His Spirit tells us that God is our Father.
Galatians 4:6 (CEV)

But whenever anyone turns to The Lord from his sins, then the veil is taken away.
II Corinthians 3:16 (TLB)

The Lord is The Spirit who gives them life, and where He is there is freedom from trying to be saved by keeping the laws of God.
II Corinthians 3:17 (TLB)

And don’t make The Holy Spirit sad. God gave you His Spirit as proof that you belong to Him and that He will keep you safe until the day He makes you free.
Ephesians 4:30 (ERV)

God’s Spirit has shown you everything. His Spirit finds out everything, even what is deep in the Mind of God.
I Corinthians 2:10 (CEV)

Our hope comes from God. May He fill you with joy and peace because of your trust in Him. May your hope grow stronger by the power of The Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 (NLV)

Christ was truly God. But He did not try to remain equal with God.
Philippians 2:6 (CEV)

Instead He gave up everything and became a slave, when He became like one of us.
Philippians 2:7 (CEV)

“Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a Son and they will call Him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.'”
Matthew 1:23 (NLT)

The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw His true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From Him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.
John 1:14 (CEV)

Thomas responded to Jesus, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20:28 (CEB)

While we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed.
Titus 2:13 (NLT)

Your Father in heave does not want a single one of the tripped, waylaid, stumbling little ones to be lost.
Matthew 18:14 (VOICE)

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.
James 1:17 (NLT)

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to Him than they are?
Matthew 6:26 (NLT)

When you pray, go into a private room, close the door, and pray unseen to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:6 (VOICE)

But the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him that way.
John 4:23 (NLT)

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in Our Image, to be like Us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
Genesis 1:26 (NLT)

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Acts 17:29 (KJV)

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 (KJV)

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body.
Colossians 2:9 (NLT)

There are Three Who speak of this in heaven: The Father and The Word and The Holy Spirit. These Three are One.
I John 5:7 (NLV)

May the Grace of The Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Fellowship of The Holy Spirit be with you all.
II Corinthians 13:14 (NLT)

As Jesus walked alongside the Galilee Sea, He saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, throwing fishing nets into the sea, because they were fishermen.
Matthew 4:18 (CEB)

“Come, follow Me,” He said, “and I’ll show you how to fish for people.”
Matthew 4:19 (CEB)

If your brother or sister sins against you, go and correct them when you are alone together. If they listen to you, then you’ve won over your brother or sister.
Matthew 18:15 (CEB)

Peter and those with him were overcome with amazement because of the number of fish they caught.
Luke 5:9 (CEB)

James and John, Zebedee’s sons, were Simon’s partners and they were amazed too. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on, you will be fishing for people.”
Luke 5:10 (CEB)

Those who are lazy in their work are brothers to thugs.
Proverbs 18:9 (CEB)

Don’t love sleep or you will be poor; stay alert and you will have plenty to eat.
Proverbs 20:13 (CEB)

Go to the ant, you lazy person; observe its ways and grow wise.
Proverbs 6:6 (CEB)

Laziness brings poverty; hard work makes one rich.
Proverbs 10:4 (CEB)

Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.
Proverbs 12:24 (NLT)

If you are a thief, quit stealing. Instead, use your hands for good hard work, and then give generously to others in need.
Ephesians 4:28 (NLT)

When we were with you, we told you that if a man does not work, he should not eat.
II Thessalonians 3:10 (NLV)

For in this way in former times the holy women, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands and adapting themselves to them;
I Peter 3:5 (AMP)

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham (following him and having regard for him as head of their house), calling him lord. And you have become her daughters if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear (that is, being respectful toward your husband but not giving in to intimidation, nor allowing yourself to be lead into sin, nor to be harmed).
I Peter 3:6 (AMP)

In the same way, you husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way (with great gentleness and tact, and with an intelligent regard for the marriage relationship), as with someone physically weaker, since she is a woman. Show her honor and respect as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered or ineffective.
I Peter 3:7 (AMP)

Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another.
Ephesians 5:21 (MSG)

Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to His church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ, as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:21-24 (MSG)

Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church, a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything He does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor, since they’re already “one” in marriage.
Ephesians 5:25-28 (MSG)

No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of His body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh”. This a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.
Ephesians 5:29-33 (MSG)

First of all, then, I ask that requests, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving be made for all people.
I Timothy 2:1 (CEB)

Pray for kings and everyone who is in authority so that we can live a quiet and peaceful life in complete godliness and dignity.
I Timothy 2:2 (CEB)

This is right and it pleases God our Savior.
I Timothy 2:3 (CEB)

The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of The Lord; He directs it wherever He wants.
Proverbs 21:1 (CEB)

Don’t brag about tomorrow, since you don’t know what the day will bring.
Proverbs 27:1 (NLT)

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s plan that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21 (NLV)

Plans fall apart without proper advice; but with the right guidance, they come together nicely.
Proverbs 15:22 (VOICE)

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT)