““Ephraim, I don’t want to give you up. Israel, I want to protect you. I don’t want to make you like Admah. I don’t want to make you like Zeboiim. I am changing my mind. My love for you is too strong. I will not let my terrible anger win. I will not destroy Ephraim again. I am God and not a human. I am the Holy One. I am with you. I will not show my anger. I, the Lord, will roar like a lion, and my children will come and follow me. They will come from the west, shaking with fear.”
Hosea 11:8-10 ERV
http://bible.com/406/hos.11.8-10.erv
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Isaiah 61:7-11
“Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs. For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong with violence or a burnt offering. And I will faithfully give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with them. And their offspring shall be known among the nations and their descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge that they are the people whom the Lord has blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word].”
Isaiah 61:7-11 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.61.7-11.ampc
Isaiah 61:7-11 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.61.7-11.ampc
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Luke 6:28-29, 32, 35
“Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God's blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you]. To the one who strikes you on the jaw or cheek, offer the other jaw or cheek also; and from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold your undergarment as well.
If you [merely] love those who love you, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? For even the [very] sinners love their lovers (those who love them).
But love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked.”
Luke 6:28-29, 32, 35 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/luk.6.28-29,32,35.ampc
If you [merely] love those who love you, what quality of credit and thanks is that to you? For even the [very] sinners love their lovers (those who love them).
But love your enemies and be kind and do good [doing favors so that someone derives benefit from them] and lend, expecting and hoping for nothing in return but considering nothing as lost and despairing of no one; and then your recompense (your reward) will be great (rich, strong, intense, and abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind and charitable and good to the ungrateful and the selfish and wicked.”
Luke 6:28-29, 32, 35 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/luk.6.28-29,32,35.ampc
Friday, July 27, 2018
Luke 23:34
“And Jesus prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they divided His garments and distributed them by casting lots for them. [Ps. 22:18.]”
Luke 23:34 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/luk.23.34.ampc
Luke 23:34 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/luk.23.34.ampc
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Psalm 27:13
“[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living!”
Psalm 27:13 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/psa.27.13.ampc
Psalm 27:13 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/psa.27.13.ampc
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Ecclesiastes 7:16-18
“Be not [morbidly exacting and externally] righteous overmuch, neither strive to make yourself [pretentiously appear] overwise–why should you [get puffed up and] destroy yourself [with presumptuous self-sufficiency]? [Although all have sinned] be not wicked overmuch or willfully, neither be foolish–why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this and from that withdraw not your hand; for he who [reverently] fears and worships God will come forth from them all.”
Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/ecc.7.16-18.ampc
Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/ecc.7.16-18.ampc
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Psalm 103:1-5, 8-13
“BLESS (AFFECTIONATELY, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name! Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits– Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases, Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption, Who beautifies, dignifies, and crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercy; Who satisfies your mouth [your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation] with good so that your youth, renewed, is like the eagle's [strong, overcoming, soaring]! [Isa. 40:31.]
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and loving-kindness. [James 5:11.] He will not always chide or be contending, neither will He keep His anger forever or hold a grudge. He has not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great are His mercy and loving-kindness toward those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe].”
Psalm 103:1-5, 8-13 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/psa.103.1-5,8-13.ampc
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and loving-kindness. [James 5:11.] He will not always chide or be contending, neither will He keep His anger forever or hold a grudge. He has not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great are His mercy and loving-kindness toward those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe].”
Psalm 103:1-5, 8-13 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/psa.103.1-5,8-13.ampc
Monday, July 23, 2018
Isaiah 46:3-4
“Listen to Me [says the Lord], O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been borne by Me from your birth, carried from the womb: Even to your old age I am He, and even to hair white with age will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry and will save you.”
Isaiah 46:3-4 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.46.3-4.ampc
Isaiah 46:3-4 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.46.3-4.ampc
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Romans 5:8
“But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.”
Romans 5:8 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/rom.5.8.ampc
Romans 5:8 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/rom.5.8.ampc
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Jeremiah 30:17
“For I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after and for whom no one cares!”
Jeremiah 30:17 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/jer.30.17.ampc
Jeremiah 30:17 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/jer.30.17.ampc
Friday, July 20, 2018
Exodus 19:5
“Now therefore, if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own peculiar possession and treasure from among and above all peoples; for all the earth is Mine.”
Exodus 19:5 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/exo.19.5.ampc
Exodus 19:5 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/exo.19.5.ampc
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
“And to keep me from being puffed up and too much elated by the exceeding greatness (preeminence) of these revelations, there was given me a thorn (a splinter) in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to rack and buffet and harass me, to keep me from being excessively exalted. [Job. 2:6.] Three times I called upon the Lord and besought [Him] about this and begged that it might depart from me; But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!”
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/2co.12.7-9.ampc
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/2co.12.7-9.ampc
Matthew 6:26-30
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life ? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
Matthew 6:26-30 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.6.26-30.NIV
Matthew 6:26-30 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.6.26-30.NIV
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
1 Samuel 17:45-47
“Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will smite you and cut off your head. And I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands.”
1 Samuel 17:45-47 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/1sa.17.45-47.ampc
1 Samuel 17:45-47 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/1sa.17.45-47.ampc
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Ecclesiastes 11:4
“He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.”
Ecclesiastes 11:4 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/ecc.11.4.ampc
Ecclesiastes 11:4 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/ecc.11.4.ampc
Daniel 3:16-19, 23-25
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, it is not necessary for us to answer you on this point. If our God Whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up! [Job 13:15; Acts 4:19, 20.] Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury and his facial expression was changed [to antagonism] against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times hotter than it was usually heated.
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king [saw and] was astounded, and he jumped up and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered, True, O king. He answered, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt! And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods! [Phil. 2:5-8.]”
Daniel 3:16-19, 23-25 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/dan.3.16-19,23-25.ampc
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the burning fiery furnace. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king [saw and] was astounded, and he jumped up and said to his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered, True, O king. He answered, Behold, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt! And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods! [Phil. 2:5-8.]”
Daniel 3:16-19, 23-25 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/dan.3.16-19,23-25.ampc
Saturday, July 14, 2018
1 Corinthians 10:13-14
“For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. Therefore, my dearly beloved, shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God).”
1 Corinthians 10:13-14 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/1co.10.13-14.ampc
1 Corinthians 10:13-14 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/1co.10.13-14.ampc
Friday, July 13, 2018
2 Corinthians 5:21
“For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].”
2 Corinthians 5:21 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/2co.5.21.ampc
2 Corinthians 5:21 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/2co.5.21.ampc
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Romans 8:31-35
“What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] [Ps. 118:6.] He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?] Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?”
Romans 8:31-35 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/rom.8.31-35.ampc
Romans 8:31-35 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/rom.8.31-35.ampc
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Isaiah 49:13-16
“Sing for joy, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people and will have compassion upon His afflicted. But Zion [Jerusalem, her people as seen in captivity] said, The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me. [And the Lord answered] Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are continually before Me.”
Isaiah 49:13-16 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.49.13-16.ampc
Isaiah 49:13-16 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.49.13-16.ampc
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Isaiah 61:7
“Instead of your [former] shame you shall have a twofold recompense; instead of dishonor and reproach [your people] shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy shall be theirs.”
Isaiah 61:7 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.61.7.ampc
Isaiah 61:7 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/isa.61.7.ampc
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Hebrews 13:5-6
“Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!] [Josh. 1:5.] So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me? [Ps. 27:1;118:6.]”
Hebrews 13:5-6 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/heb.13.5-6.ampc
Hebrews 13:5-6 AMPC
http://bible.com/8/heb.13.5-6.ampc
John 6:27-29
“But earthly food spoils and ruins. So don’t work to get that kind of food. But work to get the food that stays good and gives you eternal life. The Son of Man will give you that food. He is the only one qualified by God the Father to give it to you.” The people asked Jesus, “What does God want us to do?” Jesus answered, “The work God wants you to do is this: to believe in the one he sent.””
John 6:27-29 ERV
http://bible.com/406/jhn.6.27-29.erv
John 6:27-29 ERV
http://bible.com/406/jhn.6.27-29.erv
Saturday, July 7, 2018
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
“But I must not be too proud of the wonderful things that were shown to me. So a painful problem was given to me—an angel from Satan, sent to make me suffer, so that I would not think that I am better than anyone else. I begged the Lord three times to take this problem away from me. But the Lord said, “My grace is all you need. Only when you are weak can everything be done completely by my power.” So I will gladly boast about my weaknesses. Then Christ’s power can stay in me.”
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 ERV
http://bible.com/406/2co.12.7-9.erv
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 ERV
http://bible.com/406/2co.12.7-9.erv
Friday, July 6, 2018
Psalms 127:1-2
“If it is not the Lord who builds a house, the builders are wasting their time. If it is not the Lord who watches over the city, the guards are wasting their time. It is a waste of time to get up early and stay up late, trying to make a living. The Lord provides for those he loves, even while they are sleeping.”
Psalms 127:1-2 ERV
http://bible.com/406/psa.127.1-2.erv
Psalms 127:1-2 ERV
http://bible.com/406/psa.127.1-2.erv
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Romans 8:33-37
“Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one! God is the one who makes them right. Who can say that God’s people are guilty? No one! Christ Jesus died for us, but that is not all. He was also raised from death. And now he is at God’s right side, speaking to him for us. Can anything separate us from Christ’s love? Can trouble or problems or persecution separate us from his love? If we have no food or clothes or face danger or even death, will that separate us from his love? As the Scriptures say, “For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.” Psalm 44:22 But in all these troubles we have complete victory through God, who has shown his love for us.”
Romans 8:33-37 ERV
http://bible.com/406/rom.8.33-37.erv
Romans 8:33-37 ERV
http://bible.com/406/rom.8.33-37.erv
James 3:2
“We all make many mistakes. A person who never said anything wrong would be perfect. Someone like that would be able to control their whole body too.”
James 3:2 ERV
http://bible.com/406/jas.3.2.erv
James 3:2 ERV
http://bible.com/406/jas.3.2.erv
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Colossians 2:7
“You must depend on Christ only, drawing life and strength from him. Just as you were taught the truth, continue to grow stronger in your understanding of it. And never stop giving thanks to God.”
Colossians 2:7 ERV
http://bible.com/406/col.2.7.erv
Colossians 2:7 ERV
http://bible.com/406/col.2.7.erv
Monday, July 2, 2018
1 John 4:10
“True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.”
1 John 4:10 ERV
http://bible.com/406/1jn.4.10.erv
1 John 4:10 ERV
http://bible.com/406/1jn.4.10.erv
Ephesians 2:8-10
“I mean that you have been saved by grace because you believed. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God. You are not saved by the things you have done, so there is nothing to boast about. God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 ERV
http://bible.com/406/eph.2.8-10.erv
Ephesians 2:8-10 ERV
http://bible.com/406/eph.2.8-10.erv
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