God's will and role in affliction

Lamentations 3:32-33 (ESV)
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

Lamentations 3:21-27

Lamentations 3:21-27 (ESV)
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Sin doesn't look at the future

Lamentations 1:8-9 (ESV)
Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Jeremiah 51:15-19

Jeremiah 51:15-19 (KJV)
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

One of my favorites

Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJV)
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Timothy 1:12

2 Timothy 1:12 (ESV)
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Setting slaves free

Jeremiah 34:14 (ESV)
'At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Hebrews 4:15

Hebrews 4:15 (ESV)
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Chronicles 20:17

2 Chronicles 20:17 (ESV)
You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you."

2 Chronicles 20:12, 2 Chronicles 20:15

2 Chronicles 20:12 (ESV)
O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

2 Chronicles 20:15 (ESV)
And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.

2 Timothy 3:16

2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

John 10:35

John 10:35 (ESV)
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

John 5:39

John 5:39 (ESV)
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Isaiah 63:9

Isaiah 63:9 (ESV)
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Job 41:11

Job 41:11 (ESV)
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Sin

Galatians 5:19-21 (ESV)
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Come have breakfast

John 21:12 (ESV)
Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord.

Instructions for Younger Men

1 Peter 5:5-10 (ESV)
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

Homosexuality

1 Corinthians 6:18 (ESV)
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Homosexuality

Leviticus 20:13 (ESV)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

3 Govt Branches

Isaiah 33:22 (ESV)
For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our king; he will save us.

1 Timothy 1:15

1 Timothy 1:15 (ESV)
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

Homosexuality

1 Timothy 1:8-11 (ESV)
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

Isaiah 55:6-8

Isaiah 55:6-8 (ESV)
"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Powerful - come to Christ if you're thirsty

Isaiah 55:1-3 (ESV)
"Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.