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1 Peter 3:15

1 Peter 3:15 (MSG)
Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you're living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy.

Joel 2:14

Joel 2:14 (MSG)
Who knows? Maybe he'll do it now, maybe he'll turn around and show pity. Maybe, when all's said and done, there'll be blessings full and robust for your God!

Joel 2:13

Joel 2:13 (MSG)
Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God, your God. And here's why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. Who knows? Maybe he'll do it now, maybe he'll turn around and show pity. Maybe, when all's said and done, there'll be blessings full and robust for your God!

Joel 2:12

Joel 2:12 (MSG)
But there's also this, it's not too late— God's personal Message!— "Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!"

Psalm 51:7

Psalm 51:7 (MSG)
Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise.

Psalm 51:8

Psalm 51:8 (MSG)
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing.

Psalm 51:9

Psalm 51:9 (MSG)
Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health.

Psalm 51:10

Psalm 51:10 (MSG)
God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.

Psalm 51:11

Psalm 51:11 (MSG)
Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me.

Psalm 51:12

Psalm 51:12 (MSG)
Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!

Psalm 51:13

Psalm 51:13 (MSG)
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home.

Psalm 51:14

Psalm 51:14 (MSG)
Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways.

Psalm 51:15

Psalm 51:15 (MSG)
Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise.

Psalm 51:16

Psalm 51:16 (MSG)
Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice.

Psalm 51:17

Psalm 51:17 (MSG)
I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice.

Psalm 51:18

Psalm 51:18 (MSG)
Make Zion the place you delight in, repair Jerusalem's broken-down walls. Then you'll get real worship from us, acts of worship small and large, Including all the bulls they can heave onto your altar!

Psalm 51:19

Psalm 51:19 (MSG)
Then you'll get real worship from us, acts of worship small and large, Including all the bulls they can heave onto your altar!

Psalm 51:1

Psalm 51:1 (MSG)
Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I've been; my sins are staring me down.

Psalm 51:2

Psalm 51:2 (MSG)
Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry.

Psalm 51:3

Psalm 51:3 (MSG)
I know how bad I've been; my sins are staring me down.

Psalm 51:4

Psalm 51:4 (MSG)
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

Psalm 51:6

Psalm 51:6 (MSG)
What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

2 Corinthians 4:7

2 Corinthians 4:7 (MSG)
If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us. As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that we're not much to look at. We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been thrown down, but we haven't broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus' sake, which makes Jesus' life all the more evident in us. While we're going through the worst, you're getting in on the best!

Ephesians 3:16

Ephesians 3:16 (MSG)
I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit-not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength -

Ephesians 3:19

Ephesians 3:19 (MSG)
Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.