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Untamable tongue

James 3:1-12 (NKJV)
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

Demonic vs heavenly wisdom

James 3:13-18 (NKJV)
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.

Mine

Psalm 119:25-32 (NLT)
I lie in the dust; revive me by your word.

Hebrews 2:18

Hebrews 2:18 (NLT)
Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.

James 1:12-15

James 1:12-15 (NLT)
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Matthew 7:7

Matthew 7:7 (MSG)
"Don't bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn't a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we're in. If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust? If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn't think of such a thing. You're at least decent to your own children. So don't you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?

Commitment to God

Luke 9:57-62 (MSG)
On the road someone asked if he could go along. "I'll go with you, wherever," he said.

2 Peter 1:1, 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Peter 1:5, 2 Peter 1:10

2 Peter 1:1 (MSG)
I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.

2 Peter 1:3 (MSG)
Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

2 Peter 1:5 (MSG)
So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

2 Peter 1:10 (MSG)
So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Jesus is our only hope

Hebrews 2:3 (NLT)
So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

James 1:19-20

James 1:19-20 (NLT)
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Matthew 17:24-27

Matthew 17:24-27 (MSG)
When they arrived at Capernaum, the tax men came to Peter and asked, "Does your teacher pay taxes?"

Psalm 37:21

Psalm 37:21 (MSG)
Wicked borrows and never returns; Righteous gives and gives. Generous gets it all in the end; Stingy is cut off at the pass.

Philippians 4:6

Philippians 4:6 (MSG)
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Proverbs 6:1-5

Proverbs 6:1-5 (MSG)
Dear friend, if you've gone into hock with your neighbor or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger, If you've impulsively promised the shirt off your back and now find yourself shivering out in the cold, Friend, don't waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess. You're in that man's clutches! Go, put on a long face; act desperate. Don't procrastinate— there's no time to lose. Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper!

Proverbs 11:15

Proverbs 11:15 (MSG)
Whoever makes deals with strangers is sure to get burned; if you keep a cool head, you'll avoid rash bargains.

Romans 13:8

Romans 13:8 (MSG)
Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.

Proverbs 22:7

Proverbs 22:7 (MSG)
The poor are always ruled over by the rich, so don't borrow and put yourself under their power.

Love of a woman

Proverbs 30:18-19 (NLT)
There are three things that amaze me— no, four things that I don’t understand:

Ephesians 6:4

Ephesians 6:4 (NLT)
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

How to work

Colossians 3:23-24 (MSG)
Work from the heart for your real Master, for God,

Lust

James 1:14 (NLT)
Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.

Looking forward

Philippians 3:12-14 (NLT)
I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

God saves the loyal

Psalm 31:19-24 (NLT)
How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

2 Chronicles 7:14

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NLT)
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.