Enoch Dompreh

Galatians 6:3-6

Galatians 6:3-6 (MSG)
If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.

James 1:21

James 1:21 (MSG)
So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

Romans 13:8

Romans 13:8 (ESV)
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Galatians 3:14

Galatians 3:14 (NIV)
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Psalm 34:5, Psalm 34:7, Psalm 34:9

Psalm 34:5 (ESV)
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

Psalm 34:7 (ESV)
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Psalm 34:9 (ESV)
Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!

Psalm 33:3, Psalm 33:11-12

Psalm 33:3 (ESV)
Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

Psalm 33:11-12 (ESV)
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

Psalm 32:9

Psalm 32:9 (ESV)
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

Psalm 31:15

Psalm 31:15 (ESV)
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Hebrews 12:14

Hebrews 12:14 (ASV)
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

Matthew 5:46-48

Matthew 5:46-48 (MSG)
If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that.

Matthew 5:44

Matthew 5:44 (MSG)
I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer,

Matthew 5:34, Matthew 5:41

Matthew 5:34 (MSG)
You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, 'I'll pray for you,' and never doing it, or saying, 'God be with you,' and not meaning it. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Matthew 5:41 (MSG)
And if someone takes unfair advantage of you, use the occasion to practice the servant life.

Matthew 5:34

Matthew 5:34 (MSG)
You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, 'I'll pray for you,' and never doing it, or saying, 'God be with you,' and not meaning it. You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

2 Corinthians 11:3

2 Corinthians 11:3 (HCSB)
But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

Isaiah 40:30

Isaiah 40:30 (NKJV)
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

1 Corinthians 5:9-13

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (MSG)
I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous. I didn't mean that you should have nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks, whether blue or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that! But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is just fine when a friend who claims to be a Christian is promiscuous or crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as acceptable behavior. I'm not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within our community of believers? God decides on the outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out of line and, if necessary, clean house.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (NKJV)
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.

Joel 2:23

Joel 2:23 (NKJV)
Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.

Acts 4:14

Acts 4:14 (ESV)
But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.

1 Peter 2:23

1 Peter 2:23 (MSG)
They called him every name in the book and he said nothing back. He suffered in silence, content to let God set things right.

1 Peter 2:15

1 Peter 2:15 (MSG)
It is God's will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you're a danger to society.

Romans 12:3

Romans 12:3 (MSG)
I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Luke 6:31

Luke 6:31 (MSG)
"Here is a simple rule of thumb for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you; then grab the initiative and do it for them! If you only love the lovable, do you expect a pat on the back? Run-of-the-mill sinners do that. If you only help those who help you, do you expect a medal? Garden-variety sinners do that. If you only give for what you hope to get out of it, do you think that's charity? The stingiest of pawnbrokers does that.

Psalm 124:7

Psalm 124:7 (NKJV)
Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, and we have escaped.