The Word of God

In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing.

Don’t grumble about each other, brothers. Are you yourselves above criticism? For see! The Great Judge is coming. He is almost here. Let Him do whatever criticizing must be done.
James 5:9 (TLB)

People ruin their lives with the foolish things they do, and then they blame The Lord for it.
Proverbs 19:3 (ERV)

Children do foolish things, but if you punish them, they will learn not to do them.
Proverbs 22:15 (ERV)

Then the Jews began to murmur against Him because He claimed to be The Bread from Heaven.
John 6:41 (TLB

“What?” they exclaimed. “Why, He is merely Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. What is this He is saying, that He came down from heaven?” But Jesus replied, “Don’t murmur among yourselves about My saying that.”
John 6:42-43 (TLB)

Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp!
Psalm 150:3 (NKJV)

“If any man comes to Me and does not have much more love for Me than for his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My follower.”
Luke 14:26 (NLV)

Another said, “Yes, Lord, I will come, but first let me ask permission of those at home.” But Jesus told him, “Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:61-62 (TLB)

Then Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!”
Matthew 18:21-22 (NLT)

While He was still talking to the crowd, His mother and brothers showed up. They were outside trying to get a message to Him. Someone told Jesus, “Your mother and brothers are out here, wanting to speak with You.”
Matthew 12:46-47 (MSG)

Jesus didn’t respond directly, but said, “Who do you think My mother and brothers are?” He then stretched out His Hand toward His disciples. “Look closely. These are My mother and brothers. Obedience is thicker than blood. The person who obeys My Heavenly Father’s Will is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:48-50 (MSG)

And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died, so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.
I Thessalonians 4:13 (NLT)

Precious in the sight of The Lord is the death of His saints.
Psalm 116:15 (ESV)

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s Love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow; not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s Love.
Romans 8:38 (NLT)

No power in the sky above or in the earth below; indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from The Love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39 (NLT)

If we live, it’s to honor The Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor The Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to The Lord.
Romans 14:8 (NLT)

But our homeland is in heaven, where our Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ is; and we are looking forward to His return from there.
Phillipians 3:20 (TLB)

When He comes back, He will take these dying bodies of ours and change them into glorious bodies like His Own, using the same mighty power that He will use to conquer all else everywhere.
Phillipians 3:21 (TLB)

“Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in Me.
John 14:1 (GNT)

There are many rooms in My Father’s House, and I Am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.
John 14:2 (GNT)

And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to Myself, so that you will be where I Am. You know the way that leads to the place where I Am going.”
John 14:3-4 (GNT)

Jesus told him, “I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life. No one can come to The Father except through Me.
John 14:6 (NLT)

God love the people of this world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that everyone who has faith in Him will have eternal life and never really die.
John 3:16 (CEV)

In Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches called Bethesda near the sheep gate. Inside these porches lay many sick people. Some were blind. Some could not walk. Some could not move their bodies.
John 5:2-3 (NLV)

An angel of The Lord came at certain times and made the water move. All of them were waiting for it to move. Whoever got in the water first after it was moving was healed of whatever sickness he had.
John 5:4 (NLV)

A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus said to him, “Would you like to be healed?” The sick man said, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is moving. While I am coming, another one gets in first.”
John 5:5-7 (NLV)

Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your bed and walk.” At once the man was healed and picked up his bed and walked. This happened on The Day of Rest.
John 5:8-9 (NLV)

The serpent was the craftiest of all the creatures The Lord God had made. So the serpent came to the woman. “Really?” he asked. “None of the fruit in the garden? God says you mustn’t eat any of it?”
Genesis 3:1 (TLB)

“Of course we may eat it,” the woman told him. “It’s only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not to eat. God says we mustn’t eat it or even touch it, or we will die.”
Genesis 3:2-3 (TLB)

“That’s a lie!” the serpent hissed. “You’ll not die!”
Genesis 3:4 (TLB)

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.
John 8:44 (ERV)

Truthful words stand the test of time, but lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12:19 (NLT)

The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in those who tell the truth.
Proverbs 12:22 (NLT)

The godly hate lies; the wicked cause shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 13:5 (NLT)

For the scriptures say, “If you want to enjoy life and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies.”
I Peter 3:10 (NLT)

Don’t tell lies to each other; it was your old life with all its wickedness that did that sort of thing; now it is dead and gone.
Colossians 3:9 (TLB)

Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says, “I was only joking.”
Proverbs 26:18-19 (NLT)

But The Holy Spirit tell us clearly that in the last times some in the church will turn away from Christ and become eager followers of teachers with devil-inspired ideas. These teachers will tell lies with straight faces and do it so often that their consciences won’t even bother them.
I Timothy 4:1-2 (TLB)

A false witness will not go unpunished and a liar will be destroyed.
Proverbs 19:9 (NLT)

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why have you let satan fill your heart? You lied to The Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself. The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was also yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us but to God!”
Acts 5:3-4 (NLT)

As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified.
Acts 5:5 (NLT)

He who practices deceit will not dwell in My House, he who tell lies and half-truths will not continue to remain in My Presence.
Psalm 101:7 (AMP)

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates (works against) his christian brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
I John 4:20 (AMP)

Someone may say, “I am a christian; I am on my way to heaven; I belong to Christ.” But if he doesn’t do what Christ tells him to, he is a liar.
I John 2:4 (TLB)

And who is the greatest liar? The one who says that Jesus is not Christ. Such a person is antichrist, for he does not believe in God The Father and in His Son.
I John 2:22 (TLB)

If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?
I John 4:20 (TLB)

Should you say, ‘Friend, let me help you get that speck out of your eye,’ when you can’t even see because of the board in your own?
Matthew 7:4 (TLB)

Hypocrite! First get rid of the board. Then you can see to help your brother.
Matthew 7:5 (TLB)

Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn’t control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion isn’t worth much.
James 1:26 (TLB)

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’
Matthew 15:7-9 (NLT)

Some of you accuse others of doing wrong. But there is no excuse for what you do. When you judge others, you condemn yourselves, because you are guilty of doing the very same things.
Romans 2:1 (CEV)

We know that God is right to judge everyone who behaves in this way. Do you really think God won’t punish you, when you behave exactly like the people you accuse?
Romans 2:2-3 (CEV)

They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God.
II Timothy 3:4 (NLT)

They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that.
II Timothy 3:5 (NLT)

Dear brothers, what’s the use of saying that you have faith and are Christians if you aren’t proving it by helping other? Will that kind of faith save anyone?
James 2:14 (TLB)

They say they know God, but by the way they act, they show that they do not. They are sinful people. They will not obey and are of no use for any good work.
Titus 1:16 (NLV)

Someone may say, ‘I am a Christian; I am on my way to heaven; I belong to Christ.’ But if he doesn’t do what Christ tells him to, he is a liar.
I John 2:4 (TLB)

What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
Matthew 23:15 (NLT)

What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law; justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
Matthew 23:23 (NLT)

When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do, blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get.
Matthew 6:2 (NLT)

But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. ‘There are six days of the week for working,’ he said to the crowd. ‘Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.’
Luke 13:14 (NLT)

But The Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water?”
Luke 13:15 (NLT)

“Not all who sound religious are really godly people. They may refer to Me as ‘Lord,’ but still won’t get to heaven. For the decisive question is whether they obey My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:21 (TLB)

At the Judgment many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used Your Name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ But I will reply, ‘You have never been mine. Go away, for your deeds are evil.’
Matthew 7:22-23 (TLB)

And I shall send forth My angels with the sound of a mighty trumpet blast, and they shall gather my chosen ones from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.
Matthew 24:31 (TLB)

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!
Hebrews 13:2 (NLT)

Don’t forget to do good and to share what you have with those in need, for such sacrifices are very pleasing to Him.
Hebrews 13:16 (NLT)

When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
Romans 12:13 (NLT)

The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. Because it was rainy and cold, they built a fire and welcomed all of us.
Acts 28:2 (CEB)

Publius, the island’s most prominent person, owned a large estate in that area. He welcomed us warmly into his home as his guests for three days.
Acts 28:7 (CEB)

When Jesus came by, He looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” He said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.”
Luke 19:5 (NLT)

For sure, I tell you, whoever gives a cup of water to drink in My Name because you belong to Christ, will not lose his reward from God.
Mark 9:41 (NLV)

The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.
I Peter 4:7 (NLT)

Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
I Peter 4:8 (NLT)

Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
I Peter 4:9 (NLT)

Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
Proverbs 13:24 (NLT)

If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen.
I John 4:20 (TLB)

But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.
I John 2:11 (NLT)

Don’t secretly hate any of your neighbors. But tell them openly what they have done wrong so that you will not be just as guilty of sin as they are.
Leviticus 19:17 (ERV)

Forget about the wrong things people do to you. Don’t try to get even. Love your neighbor as yourself. I Am The Lord.
Leviticus 19:18 (ERV)