Melissa Layton

Taming the tongue

James 3:2-12 (NLT)
Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.

Romans 11:35

Romans 11:35 (NIV84)
“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?”

John 2:5, John 2:11

John 2:5 (NLT)
But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

John 2:11 (NLT)
This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

John 2:5

John 2:5 (NLT)
But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Acts 4:31

Acts 4:31 (NIV)
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

Peter and John

Acts 4:19-20 (NIV)
But Peter and John replied, "Which is right in God's eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!

Acts 3:6

Acts 3:6 (NIV)
Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

Forgiveness

John 15:12-14 (NIV)
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

God knows your name!

Luke 19:5 (NIV)
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today."

Luke 19:10

Luke 19:10 (NIV)
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

Genesis 6:4

Genesis 6:4 (NIV)
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Romans 12:3

Romans 12:3 (NIV)
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

Romans 12:4

Romans 12:4 (NIV)
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,

Romans 12:5

Romans 12:5 (NIV)
so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

Romans 12:6

Romans 12:6 (NIV)
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith;

Romans 12:7

Romans 12:7 (NIV)
if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;

Romans 12:8

Romans 12:8 (NIV)
if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

Acts 1:8

Acts 1:8 (NIV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

James 4:10

James 4:10 (NIV)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

2 Timothy 2:15

2 Timothy 2:15 (NIV)
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

2 Timothy 3:17

2 Timothy 3:17 (NIV)
so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Jeremiah 18:2

Jeremiah 18:2 (NIV)
"Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message."

Jeremiah 18:3

Jeremiah 18:3 (NIV)
So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel.

Jeremiah 18:4

Jeremiah 18:4 (NIV)
But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

Jeremiah 18:5

Jeremiah 18:5 (NIV)
Then the word of the lord came to me.