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PS 40:4

Psalm 40:4 (MSG)
Blessed are you who give yourselves over to god, turn your backs on the world's "sure thing," ignore what the world worships; The world's a huge stockpile of god-wonders and God-thoughts. Nothing and no one comes close to you! I start talking about you, telling what I know, and quickly run out of words. Neither numbers nor words account for you.

When I'm Afraid

Psalm 56:3 (ESV)
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Falling and Rising

Proverbs 24:16 (NKJV)
For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.

Parenting

Proverbs 22:15 (NIV)
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

Proverbs 22:17 (NIV)
Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,

Word for my situation

Proverbs 22:8 (NIV)
Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.

Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 21:25, Proverbs 21:29

Proverbs 21:9 (MSG)
Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.

Proverbs 21:19 (MSG)
Better to live in a tent in the wild than with a cross and petulant spouse.

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

Proverbs 21:29 (MSG)
Unscrupulous people fake it a lot; honest people are sure of their steps.