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  • Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans

    2011-09-13

  • Sad irony

    It's a sad irony that most of God's prophets were killed in the capital city of His own people.

    Created 10 months ago

    Luke 13:33 (NIV)

  • Worst bad day ever

    Jesus' day began by hearing that his cousin had been murdered. He tried to get away some place alone, but the crowd followed Him. He had compassion on them, so He spent the rest of the day healing them…

    Created 11 months ago

    Matthew 14:23 (NIV)

  • Purification after childbirth

    See Leviticus 12 for the rules concerning purification after childbirth. She was ceremonially unclean for 7 days following the birth. On the 8th day He was circumcised, and then after another 33 days,…

    Created 12 months ago

    Luke 2:22 (NIV)

  • Grace in place of grace already given

    It's easy to take this passage as a phrase meaning just that we have been blessed greatly by God, but I wonder if there is a literal meaning to it. When you look at verse 17 also, I think it would also…

    Created 12 months ago

    John 1:16 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-06-21

  • Untitled Note

    I wonder how the Israelites at the time would have interpreted Zechariah's statement about being free to serve in righteousness. Looking back, it seems clear to me to be a reference to Christ redeeming…

    Created 12 months ago

    Luke 1:74 (NIV), Luke 1:75 (NIV)

  • Lamentations 3:21

    Lamentations 3:21 (NIV)
    Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

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  • Lamentations 3:22

    Lamentations 3:22 (NIV)
    Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

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  • Lamentations 3:23

    Lamentations 3:23 (NIV)
    They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Lamentations 3:24

    Lamentations 3:24 (NIV)
    I say to myself, "The lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Lamentations 3:25

    Lamentations 3:25 (NIV)
    The lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

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  • Lamentations 3:26

    Lamentations 3:26 (NIV)
    it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the lord.

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  • Lamentations 3:27

    Lamentations 3:27 (NIV)
    It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

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  • Lamentations 3:31

    Lamentations 3:31 (NIV)
    For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.

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  • Lamentations 3:32

    Lamentations 3:32 (NIV)
    Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Lamentations 3:39

    Lamentations 3:39 (NIV)
    Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Lamentations 3:40

    Lamentations 3:40 (NIV)
    Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the lord.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Bookmarks

    2011-05-21

  • Jeremiah 31:33

    Jeremiah 31:33 (NIV)
    "This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time," declares the lord. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 31:34

    Jeremiah 31:34 (NIV)
    No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the lord. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 29:11

    Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
    For I know the plans I have for you," declares the lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 29:12

    Jeremiah 29:12 (NIV)
    Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 29:13

    Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)
    You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 9:23

    Jeremiah 9:23 (NIV)
    This is what the lord says: "Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Jeremiah 9:24

    Jeremiah 9:24 (NIV)
    but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the lord.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 57:1

    Isaiah 57:1 (NIV)
    The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 57:2

    Isaiah 57:2 (NIV)
    Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

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  • Isaiah 53:2

    Isaiah 53:2 (NIV)
    He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 53:5

    Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)
    But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 53:6

    Isaiah 53:6 (NIV)
    We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 53:9

    Isaiah 53:9 (NIV)
    He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Isaiah 53:11

    Isaiah 53:11 (NIV)
    After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Untitled Note

    It doesn't say Gentiles will not enter -- only the uncircumcised and unclean.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Isaiah 52:1 (NIV)

  • He's lying or mistaken

    This shows that the king of Assyria does not know the Lord because he confuses the high places with places of worship for God, so further down when he says that the Lord sent him, he's either lying to…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Isaiah 36:7 (NIV)

  • Untitled Note

    It's interesting to see how the Lord works in times like these. He punishes the nation of Israel in order to bring her back to Him. If that were to happen in an Earthly relationship, we would probably…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Isaiah 9:13 (NIV)

  • Agnosticism not an option

    I think it's interesting that the captain doesn't even entertain the thought that their prayers might not be answered because there is no god. In his mind, an unanswered prayer just means that the deity…

    Created about 1 year ago

  • How much is enough?

    The teacher of the law is looking for a way to limit the scope of the command to what he thinks is a manageable level. Christ's answer shows that there is no limit. This is similar to when Peter asks…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Luke 10:29 (NIV)

  • It's an important sequence

    I tend to take forgranted that God will always hear my prayer, but that in itself is an awesome blessing. Imagine trying to get an audience with the President or the Queen of England who are over only…

    Created about 1 year ago

    2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

  • How the righteous fell

    See 2 Chronicles 24 for an explanation of what happened. The important points to know are that Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada was alive to instruct him but turned…

    Created about 1 year ago

    2 Kings 12:20 (NIV)

  • Untitled Note

    This is especially true in my own life and stems from an arrogant notion that I know what is best for me, so I seldom think of my choices bringing me harm. Rather I tend to think I'm being punished unjustly…

    Created over 1 year ago

    Proverbs 19:3 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2011-02-17

  • Started Following mfore625

    over 1 year

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-02-14

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-02-10

  • Untitled Note

    For more information, see 1 Chronicles 27:23-24.

    Created over 1 year ago

    2 Samuel 24:1 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-01-16

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-01-16