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Slow to speak

James 1:19 (NLT)
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Tests bring growth

James 1:2-4 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.

Do it

James 1:22 (NLT)
But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

God sees the heart

Proverbs 21:2 (NLT)
People may be right in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their heart.

Love

Luke 6:31 (NLT)
Do to others as you would like them to do to you.

Weird

2 Esdras 7:28-29 (GNTD)
My son the Messiah will be revealed, together with those who come with him. He will bring four hundred years of happiness to all these survivors.

God's Way

2 Esdras 7:3-25 (GNTD)
“Go ahead, sir,” I said. He continued, “Picture in your mind a broad, immense sea spreading over a vast area,

Gold Ring

Job 42:11 (GNTD)
All Job's brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the Lord had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.

Betrayal

2 Esdras 1:27 (GNTD)
It is not me that you have betrayed; you have betrayed yourselves.

Wine and Water

2 Maccabees 15:39 (GNTD)
We know it is unhealthy to drink wine or water alone, whereas wine mixed with water makes a delightfully tasty drink. So also a good story skillfully written gives pleasure to those who read it. With this I conclude.

Prayer for the dead

2 Maccabees 12:43-45 (GNTD)
He also took up a collection from all his men, totaling about four pounds of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. Judas did this noble thing because he believed in the resurrection of the dead.

Mother's courage

2 Maccabees 7:28-29 (GNTD)
So I urge you, my child, to look at the sky and the earth. Consider everything you see there, and realize that God made it all from nothing, just as he made the human race.

King of the Universe

2 Maccabees 7:9 (GNTD)
but with his dying breath he cried out to the king, “You butcher! You may kill us, but the King of the universe will raise us from the dead and give us eternal life, because we have obeyed his laws.”

A gift, like Sabbath?

2 Maccabees 5:19 (GNTD)
But the Lord did not choose his people for the sake of his Temple; he established his Temple for the sake of his people.

Winning a fight in the family

2 Maccabees 5:6 (GNTD)
while Jason and his men went on slaughtering their fellow Jews without mercy. Jason did not realize that success against one's own people is the worst kind of failure. He even considered his success a victory over enemies, rather than a defeat of his own people.

We have got to protect us

1 Maccabees 12:9-10 (GNTD)
And now, although we are not in need of such alliances, since we find our source of strength in the holy books we possess,

1 Maccabees 12:14-15 (GNTD)
During this time of war, we did not wish to trouble you or our other allies and friends,

dead? @catholics

Baruch 2:17 (GNTD)
Open your eyes and look upon us. Those in the world of the dead with no breath left in their bodies cannot offer praises to you or proclaim how just you are.

OT -> NT fathers to sons

Sirach 48:10-11 (GNTD)
The scripture says that you are ready to appear at the designated time, to cool God's anger before it breaks out in fury; that you “will bring parents and children together again,” and restore the tribes of Israel.

Never quoted at mass...

Sirach 42:5-6 (GNTD)
making a profit, whether great or small, bargaining with a merchant, disciplining your children often, beating a disloyal slave until the blood flows.

Sirach 42:13-14 (GNTD)
Women hurt other women just as moths damage clothing.

elbows on the table

Sirach 41:19 (GNTD)
Before your neighbors, be ashamed of theft. Be ashamed of breaking a promise, of leaning on the dinner table with your elbows, of stinginess when you are asked for something,

begging, wealth, fear of the Lord

Sirach 40:26-30 (GNTD)
Wealth and strength give confidence, but the fear of the Lord can give you even greater confidence. When you fear the Lord you need nothing more; it is all the support you need.

Roles are important

Sirach 38:31-34 (GNTD)
All of these people are skilled with their hands, each of them an expert at his own craft.

balanced medicine

Sirach 38:9-15 (GNTD)
My child, when you get sick, don't ignore it. Pray to the Lord, and he will make you well.

sabbath and Jesus' authority

John 5:16-17 (NLT)
So the Jewish leaders began harassing Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

John 5:21 (NLT)
For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.

John 5:24 (NLT)
“I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

advice

Sirach 37:10-12 (GNTD)
Don't ask advice of anyone who doesn't trust you, and don't give advice to anyone who is jealous of you.

Sirach 37:14-15 (GNTD)
Sometimes your own intuition can tell you more than seven watchmen on a high tower.