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Follow All Rules

James 2:10-11 (NLT)
For the person who keeps all of the laws except one is as guilty as a person who has broken all of God’s laws.

Slow to Speak

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.

James 1:26 (NLT)
If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

Double Minded

James 1:6-7 (NLT)
But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.

God does not tempt us.

James 1:13-14 (NLT)
And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else.

judging

Romans 2:1 (AMP)
THEREFORE YOU have no excuse or defense or justification, O man, whoever you are who judges and condemns another. For in posing as judge and passing sentence on another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge are habitually practicing the very same things [that you censure and denounce].

Love

1 John 4:18 (AMP)
There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection].

Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NLT)
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

Salvation

Ephesians 2:8-9 (NLT)
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.

Unheard Prayer

Proverbs 28:9 (MSG)
God has no use for the prayers of the people who won't listen to him.

Private Altar

Matthew 6:6-9 (MSG)
"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.

Quite Time

Mark 1:35 (MSG)
While it was still night, way before dawn, he got up and went out to a secluded spot and prayed. Simon and those with him went looking for him. They found him and said, "Everybody's looking for you."

Content

Matthew 5:5 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

Chosen

1 John 4:10 (NIV)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Salvation

Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

Inseparable

Romans 8:37-39 (NIV)
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Undeserving Love

Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Complete Joy

John 15:11-12 (NIV)
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Persistence

Psalm 27:14 (MSG)
Stay with God! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again: Stay with God.

Psalm 42:11

Psalm 42:11 (AMP)
Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Marriage Devotions

1 Corinthians 7:32-34 (NIV)
I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs—how he can please the Lord.

Fair Treatment

Psalm 103:10 (NIV)
he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.