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Getting back at people

1 Thessalonians 5:15 (NIV)
Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Mark 8:34-38

Mark 8:34-38 (MSG)
Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?

Sin accepting God

1 John 1:6-10 (MSG)
If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we're obviously lying through our teeth—we're not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God's Son, purges all our sin.

John 14:6

John 14:6 (MSG)
Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You've even seen him!"

1 Peter 3:3-4

1 Peter 3:3-4 (MSG)
What matters is not your outer appearance-the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes -

Colossians 3:19, Colossians 3:21

Colossians 3:19 (MSG)
Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don't take advantage of them.

Colossians 3:21 (MSG)
Parents, don't come down too hard on your children or you'll crush their spirits.

1 Corinthians 7:23

1 Corinthians 7:23 (MSG)
All of you, slave and free both, were once held hostage in a sinful society. Then a huge sum was paid out for your ransom. So please don't, out of old habit, slip back into being or doing what everyone else tells you. Friends, stay where you were called to be. God is there. Hold the high ground with him at your side.

Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:17 (MSG)
And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don't think I'm being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.

Psalm 103:3

Psalm 103:3 (NIV)
who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,

Ephesians 5:2

Ephesians 5:2 (MSG)
Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.