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For Mike

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 (NIV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For Mike

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 (NIV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For Mike

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 7:1

1 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)
Now for the matters you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

1 Thessalonians 5:18

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

John 15:19

John 15:19 (NIV)
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

Acts 2:27

Acts 2:27 (AMP)
For You will not abandon my soul, leaving it helpless in Hades (the state of departed spirits), nor let Your Holy One know decay or see destruction [of the body after death].

Romans 3:23

Romans 3:23 (NLT)
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Romans 3:24

Romans 3:24 (NLT)
Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

Luke 23:34

Luke 23:34 (NLT)
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.

John 7:18

John 7:18 (NIV)
Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

Titus 3:3

Titus 3:3 (NIV)
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Titus 3:4

Titus 3:4 (NIV)
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

Titus 3:5

Titus 3:5 (NIV)
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:6

Titus 3:6 (NIV)
whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Titus 3:7

Titus 3:7 (NIV)
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

Ephesians 2:8

Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

Ephesians 2:9

Ephesians 2:9 (NIV)
not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:10

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

1 Thessalonians 5:16

1 Thessalonians 5:16 (NIV)
Rejoice always,

1 Thessalonians 5:17

1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NIV)
pray continually,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:16

2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

Leviticus 19:28

Leviticus 19:28 (NIV84)
“ ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.