Elijah Miller

Perseverance is good.

James 1:12 (NIV)
Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Testing you faith trains perseverance.

James 1:2-4 (NIV)
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

Slow to anger, speak. Quick to listen.

James 1:19-20 (NIV)
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

Revenge

Romans 12:19 (NIV)
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.

Train to have self-control.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (NIV)
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Don't leave Kristen.

1 Corinthians 7:27 (NIV)
Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife.

Go as you are called.

1 Corinthians 7:17 (NIV)
Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

Bought at a price.

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NIV)
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

God's testimony of His son.

1 John 5:9-12 (NIV)
We accept human testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.

Why we love.

1 John 4:19 (NIV)
We love because he first loved us.

God is in us if we love.

1 John 4:13-15 (NIV)
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

World viewpoint vs God's viewpoint.

1 John 4:4-6 (NIV)
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Test spirits, bc they're not all from God.

1 John 4:1-3 (NIV)
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Watch what you say.

James 3:9-12 (NIV)
With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness.

Teachers will be held accountable to what they teach.

James 3:1-2 (NIV)
Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

Faith without actions is meaningless.

James 2:2 (NIV)
Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.

James 2:26 (NIV)
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Don't be a waste of effort.

Galatians 4:8-11 (NIV)
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Don't please people.

Galatians 4:10 (NIV)
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!

Do NOT get drunk.

Ephesians 5:18 (NIV)
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,

Boasting

James 4:13-17 (NIV)
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."

Sin.

James 4:17 (NIV)
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.

Come to God , He'll meet you halfway.

James 4:8 (NIV)
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Wrong motives.

James 4:1-3 (NIV)
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

Friendship with the world is against God.

James 4:4-5 (NIV)
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

What is good is from God.

3 John 1:11 (NIV)
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.