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Mark 8:34-37

Mark 8:34-37 (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?

1 John 3:16-17

1 John 3:16-17 (MSG)
This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.

Hebrews 12:1-3

Hebrews 12:1-3 (MSG)
Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

Romans 8:3

Romans 8:3 (MSG)
God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

1 Thessalonians 4:14 (MSG)
Since Jesus died and broke loose from the grave, God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus.

Romans 12:21

Romans 12:21 (MSG)
Don't let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.

Colossians 3:13

Colossians 3:13 (MSG)
Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you.

Job 17:1

Job 17:1 (MSG)
"My spirit is broken, my days used up, my grave dug and waiting. See how these mockers close in on me? How long do I have to put up with their insolence?

Job 15:35

Job 15:35 (MSG)
They have sex with sin and give birth to evil. Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit."

Job 15:22

Job 15:22 (MSG)
They despair of things ever getting better-they're on the list of people for whom things always turn out for the worst.

Job 13:24

Job 13:24 (MSG)
Why do you stay hidden and silent? Why treat me like I'm your enemy?

Job 13:15

Job 13:15 (MSG)
Because even if he killed me, I'd keep on hoping. I'd defend my innocence to the very end.

Job 13:12

Job 13:12 (MSG)
Your wise sayings are knickknack wisdom, good for nothing but gathering dust.

Job 12:16

Job 12:16 (MSG)
Strength and success belong to God; both deceived and deceiver must answer to him.

Job 12:14

Job 12:14 (MSG)
If he tears something down, it's down for good; if he locks people up, they're locked up for good.

Job 12:13

Job 12:13 (MSG)
"True wisdom and real power belong to God; from him we learn how to live, and also what to live for. If he tears something down, it's down for good; if he locks people up, they're locked up for good. If he holds back the rain, there's a drought; if he lets it loose, there's a flood. Strength and success belong to God; both deceived and deceiver must answer to him. He strips experts of their vaunted credentials, exposes judges as witless fools. He divests kings of their royal garments, then ties a rag around their waists. He strips priests of their robes, and fires high officials from their jobs. He forces trusted sages to keep silence, deprives elders of their good sense and wisdom. He dumps contempt on famous people, disarms the strong and mighty. He shines a spotlight into caves of darkness, hauls deepest darkness into the noonday sun. He makes nations rise and then fall, builds up some and abandons others. He robs world leaders of their reason, and sends them off into no-man's-land. They grope in the dark without a clue, lurching and staggering like drunks."

Job 12:9

Job 12:9 (MSG)
Isn't it clear that they all know and agree that God is sovereign, that he holds all things in his hand -

Job 12:5

Job 12:5 (MSG)
It's easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame, for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15 (MSG)
If I'm truly guilty, I'm doomed. But if I'm innocent, it's no better-I'm still doomed. My belly is full of bitterness. I'm up to my ears in a swamp of affliction.

Job 10:2

Job 10:2 (MSG)
Job prayed: "Here's what I want to say: Don't, God, bring in a verdict of guilty without letting me know the charges you're bringing. How does this fit into what you once called 'good'— giving me a hard time, spurning me, a life you shaped by your very own hands, and then blessing the plots of the wicked? You don't look at things the way we mortals do. You're not taken in by appearances, are you? Unlike us, you're not working against a deadline. You have all eternity to work things out. So what's this all about, anyway—this compulsion to dig up some dirt, to find some skeleton in my closet? You know good and well I'm not guilty. You also know no one can help me.

Job 9:18

Job 9:18 (MSG)
He won't even let me catch my breath, piles bitterness upon bitterness.

Job 3:24

Job 3:24 (MSG)
"Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish. The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened. My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever—death has invaded life."

Job 3:23

Job 3:23 (MSG)
What's the point of life when it doesn't make sense, when God blocks all the roads to meaning?

Job 2:10

Job 2:10 (MSG)
He told her, "You're talking like an empty-headed fool. We take the good days from God—why not also the bad days?" Not once through all this did Job sin. He said nothing against God.

Job 1:21

Job 1:21 (MSG)
Naked I came from my mother's womb, naked I'll return to the womb of the earth. god gives, god takes. God's name be ever blessed.