Heather Hahn

1 Corinthians 15:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:10

1 Corinthians 15:1-3 (MSG)
Friends, let me go over the Message with you one final time— this Message that I proclaimed and that you made your own; this Message on which you took your stand and by which your life has been saved. (I'm assuming, now, that your belief was the real thing and not a passing fancy, that you're in this for good and holding fast.)

1 Corinthians 15:10 (MSG)
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.

Hosea 10:2

Hosea 10:2 (MSG)
Their sweet smiles are sheer lies. They're guilty as sin. God will smash their worship shrines, pulverize their god-images.

Hosea 10:3

Hosea 10:3 (MSG)
They go around saying, "Who needs a king? We couldn't care less about God, so why bother with a king? What difference would he make?" They talk big, lie through their teeth, make deals. But their high-sounding words turn out to be empty words, litter in the gutters.

Hosea 10:4

Hosea 10:4 (MSG)
They talk big, lie through their teeth, make deals. But their high-sounding words turn out to be empty words, litter in the gutters.

Isaiah 30:15

Isaiah 30:15 (MSG)
God, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel: "Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling down in complete dependence on me— The very thing you've been unwilling to do. You've said, 'Nothing doing! We'll rush off on horseback!' You'll rush off, all right! Just not far enough! You've said, 'We'll ride off on fast horses!' Do you think your pursuers ride old nags? Think again: A thousand of you will scatter before one attacker. Before a mere five you'll all run off. There'll be nothing left of you— a flagpole on a hill with no flag, a signpost on a roadside with the sign torn off."

James 3:1

James 3:1 (MSG)
Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards. And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person, in perfect control of life.

James 3:2

James 3:2 (MSG)
And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you'd have a perfect person, in perfect control of life.

James 3:3

James 3:3 (MSG)
A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it!

James 3:4

James 3:4 (MSG)
A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds.

James 3:5

James 3:5 (MSG)
A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything-or destroy it!

James 3:6

James 3:6 (MSG)
It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.

James 3:7

James 3:7 (MSG)
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!

James 3:8

James 3:8 (MSG)
but you can't tame a tongue-it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer.

James 3:9

James 3:9 (MSG)
With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image.

James 3:10

James 3:10 (MSG)
Curses and blessings out of the same mouth!

James 3:11

James 3:11 (MSG)
My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?

James 3:12

James 3:12 (MSG)
Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?

James 3:13

James 3:13 (MSG)
Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats.

James 3:14

James 3:14 (MSG)
Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom.

James 3:15

James 3:15 (MSG)
It's the furthest thing from wisdom-it's animal cunning, devilish conniving.

James 3:16

James 3:16 (MSG)
Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats.

James 3:17

James 3:17 (MSG)
Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

James 3:18

James 3:18 (MSG)
You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

Lamentations 3:1

Lamentations 3:1 (MSG)
I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again.

Lamentations 3:2

Lamentations 3:2 (MSG)
He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness.