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Psalm 4:2

Psalm 4:2 (MSG)
You rabble—how long do I put up with your scorn? How long will you lust after lies? How long will you live crazed by illusion?

Matthew 6:25

Matthew 6:25 (MSG)
"If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.

Matthew 6:7

Matthew 6:7 (MSG)
"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best— as above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! You can do anything you want! You're ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Proverbs 21:25

Proverbs 21:25 (MSG)
Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.

Galatians 5:13

Galatians 5:13 (MSG)
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 (MSG)
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

2 Timothy 2:4

2 Timothy 2:4 (MSG)
A soldier on duty doesn't get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders.

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!

the truth

1 Timothy 1:12 (MSG)
I'm so grateful to Christ Jesus for making me adequate to do this work. He went out on a limb, you know, in trusting me with this ministry. The only credentials I brought to it were invective and witch hunts and arrogance. But I was treated mercifully because I didn't know what I was doing—didn't know Who I was doing it against! Grace mixed with faith and love poured over me and into me. And all because of Jesus.

Romans 6:12-13

Romans 6:12-13 (MSG)
That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day. Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you've been raised from the dead!—into God's way of doing things. Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.

Hebrews 4:15

Hebrews 4:15 (MSG)
We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all-all but the sin.

god doesn't keep score

Romans 4:8 (MSG)
Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score.

Ephesians 4:19

Ephesians 4:19 (MSG)
They can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.

Galatians 5:19

Galatians 5:19 (MSG)
It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

Hebrews 10:35

Hebrews 10:35 (MSG)
So don't throw it all away now. You were sure of yourselves then. It's still a sure thing!

Hebrews 10:36

Hebrews 10:36 (MSG)
But you need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so you'll be there for the promised completion.

Hebrews 11:6

Hebrews 11:6 (MSG)
It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.

Hebrews 12:6

Hebrews 12:6 (MSG)
It's the child he loves that he disciplines; the child he embraces, he also corrects.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

Ecclesiastes 5:13 (MSG)
Here's a piece of bad luck I've seen happen: A man hoards far more wealth than is good for him And then loses it all in a bad business deal. He fathered a child but hasn't a cent left to give him. He arrived naked from the womb of his mother; He'll leave in the same condition—with nothing. This is bad luck, for sure—naked he came, naked he went. So what was the point of working for a salary of smoke? All for a miserable life spent in the dark?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Ecclesiastes 5:10 (MSG)
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.