Caroline Spellman

Psalm 19:12

Psalm 19:12 (NLT)
How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.

Psalm 19:13

Psalm 19:13 (NLT)
Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin.

Proverbs 24:16

Proverbs 24:16 (NLT)
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.

Proverbs 24:19

Proverbs 24:19 (NLT)
Don’t fret because of evildoers; don’t envy the wicked.

Proverbs 25:19

Proverbs 25:19 (NLT)
Putting confidence in an unreliable person in times of trouble is like chewing with a broken tooth or walking on a lame foot.

Proverbs 25:20

Proverbs 25:20 (NLT)
Singing cheerful songs to a person with a heavy heart is like taking someone’s coat in cold weather or pouring vinegar in a wound.

Proverbs 27:10

Proverbs 27:10 (NLT)
Never abandon a friend— either yours or your father’s. When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance. It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.

Proverbs 27:17

Proverbs 27:17 (NLT)
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Proverbs 28:9

Proverbs 28:9 (NLT)
God detests the prayers of a person who ignores the law.

Proverbs 28:13

Proverbs 28:13 (NLT)
People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

Proverbs 28:23

Proverbs 28:23 (NLT)
In the end, people appreciate honest criticism far more than flattery.

Proverbs 28:27

Proverbs 28:27 (NLT)
Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.

1 Peter 1:6

1 Peter 1:6 (NLT)
So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.

1 Peter 1:7

1 Peter 1:7 (NLT)
These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

Titus 2:12

Titus 2:12 (MSG)
We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,

Titus 2:13

Titus 2:13 (MSG)
and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears.

Titus 2:14

Titus 2:14 (MSG)
He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.

Romans 5:2

Romans 5:2 (MSG)
And that's not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand-out in the wide open spaces of God's grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.

Romans 5:4

Romans 5:4 (MSG)
and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next.

Romans 5:5

Romans 5:5 (MSG)
In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary-we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!

Romans 5:6

Romans 5:6 (MSG)
Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

Romans 5:8

Romans 5:8 (MSG)
But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

Romans 5:9

Romans 5:9 (MSG)
Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!

Romans 5:10

Romans 5:10 (MSG)
If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!

Romans 5:11

Romans 5:11 (MSG)
Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!