Dan Kihanya

Many parts one body

1 Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

God - there is no other

Isaiah 45:5-6 (NIV)
I am the lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,

God sees both oppressor and the oppressed

Proverbs 29:13 (NIV)
The poor and the oppressor have this in common: The lord gives sight to the eyes of both.

Boasting

Proverbs 25:14 (NIV)
Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.

We sharpen each other

Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Crooked ways are treated as if evildoers

Psalm 125:3-5 (NIV)
The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.

Sloth leads to poverty

Proverbs 24:33-34 (NIV)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

God calls you back to him

Isaiah 44:21-22 (NIV)
"Remember these things, Jacob, for you, Israel, are my servant. I have made you, you are my servant; Israel, I will not forget you.

Don't pursue riches

Proverbs 23:4-5 (NIV)
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

One true God

Isaiah 43:10-12 (NIV)
"You are my witnesses," declares the lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

Mockers create strife

Proverbs 22:10 (NIV)
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

God knows your heart

Isaiah 29:13-16 (NIV)
The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

God created me

Psalm 139:13-18 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

The song of addiction

Jeremiah 2:5 (NIV)
This is what the lord says: "What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:7 (NIV)
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

Jeremiah 2:11 (NIV)
Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Jeremiah 2:20-24 (NIV)
"Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, 'I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:27 (NIV)
They say to wood, 'You are my father,' and to stone, 'You gave me birth.' They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, 'Come and save us!'

Jeremiah 2:33 (NIV)
How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

Jeremiah 2:37 (NIV)
You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the lord has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.

Don't blame God for your folly

Proverbs 19:3 (NIV)
A person's own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the lord.

Don't dwell on offenses

Proverbs 17:9 (NIV)
Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.

Righteousness vs injustice

Proverbs 16:8 (NIV)
Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.

In calamity the righteous have refuge

Proverbs 14:32 (NIV)
When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

Fear the lord walk uprightly

Proverbs 14:1 (NIV)
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

One flesh

Genesis 2:24 (NIV)
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Be willing to receive instruction

Proverbs 12:1 (NIV)
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.

Man''s life is fleeting

Psalm 103:15-16 (NIV)
The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;

purity

Job 31:1-12 (NIV)
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

world will fade but God lasts

Psalm 102:25-26 (NIV)
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

do not lose heart

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.