Wayne Buckhanan

Love the Lord

Mark 12:28-34 (NASB)
One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?"

Love the Lord

Luke 10:25-28 (NASB)
And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Love the Lord

Matthew 22:34-40 (NASB)
But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

Luke 23:43

Luke 23:43 (KJV)
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Matthew 22:37

Matthew 22:37 (MSG)
Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."

1 Corinthians 15:10

1 Corinthians 15:10 (NIV)
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

1 Corinthians 15:18

1 Corinthians 15:18 (NIV)
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.

1 Corinthians 1:7

1 Corinthians 1:7 (MSG)
Just think—you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale. And not only that, but God himself is right alongside to keep you steady and on track until things are all wrapped up by Jesus. God, who got you started in this spiritual adventure, shares with us the life of his Son and our Master Jesus. He will never give up on you. Never forget that.

1 Corinthians 7:17

1 Corinthians 7:17 (MSG)
And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life. Don't think I'm being harder on you than on the others. I give this same counsel in all the churches.

1 Corinthians 8:7

1 Corinthians 8:7 (MSG)
In strict logic, then, nothing happened to the meat when it was offered up to an idol. It's just like any other meat. I know that, and you know that. But knowing isn't everything. If it becomes everything, some people end up as know-it-alls who treat others as know-nothings. Real knowledge isn't that insensitive. We need to be sensitive to the fact that we're not all at the same level of understanding in this. Some of you have spent your entire lives eating "idol meat," and are sure that there's something bad in the meat that then becomes something bad inside of you. An imagination and conscience shaped under those conditions isn't going to change overnight.

1 Corinthians 9:16

1 Corinthians 9:16 (MSG)
If I proclaim the Message, it's not to get something out of it for myself. I'm compelled to do it, and doomed if I don't!

1 Corinthians 13:9

1 Corinthians 13:9 (MSG)
We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.

1 Corinthians 13:13

1 Corinthians 13:13 (MSG)
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

1 Corinthians 14:1

1 Corinthians 14:1 (MSG)
Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you're letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.

1 Corinthians 14:9

1 Corinthians 14:9 (MSG)
So if you speak in a way no one can understand, what's the point of opening your mouth? There are many languages in the world and they all mean something to someone. But if I don't understand the language, it's not going to do me much good. It's no different with you. Since you're so eager to participate in what God is doing, why don't you concentrate on doing what helps everyone in the church?

1 Corinthians 15:10

1 Corinthians 15:10 (MSG)
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.

1 Corinthians 15:44

1 Corinthians 15:44 (MSG)
The seed sown is natural; the seed grown is supernatural-same seed, same body, but what a difference from when it goes down in physical mortality to when it is raised up in spiritual immortality!

1 Corinthians 15:56

1 Corinthians 15:56 (MSG)
It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

1 Corinthians 16:13

1 Corinthians 16:13 (MSG)
Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you've got, be resolute, and love without stopping.

1 Corinthians 16:13

1 Corinthians 16:13 (NASB)
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Colossians 3:22

Colossians 3:22 (MSG)
Servants, do what you're told by your earthly masters. And don't just do the minimum that will get you by. Do your best. Work from the heart for your real Master, for God, confident that you'll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance. Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you're serving is Christ. The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible. Being a follower of Jesus doesn't cover up bad work.

1 Corinthians 12:14

1 Corinthians 12:14 (MSG)
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.

1 Corinthians 2:10

1 Corinthians 2:10 (MSG)
But you've seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.

1 Corinthians 15:50

1 Corinthians 15:50 (MSG)
I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don't in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very "nature" is to die, so how could they "naturally" end up in the Life kingdom?

1 Corinthians 15:58

1 Corinthians 15:58 (MSG)
With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground. And don't hold back. Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort.