Isaiah 32:1-4, Isaiah 32:8-20

Isaiah 32:1-4 (MSG)
But look! A king will rule in the right way, and his leaders will carry out justice. Each one will stand as a shelter from high winds, provide safe cover in stormy weather. Each will be cool running water in parched land, a huge granite outcrop giving shade in the desert. Anyone who looks will see, anyone who listens will hear. The impulsive will make sound decisions, the tongue-tied will speak with eloquence. No more will fools become celebrities, nor crooks be rewarded with fame. For fools are fools and that's that, thinking up new ways to do mischief. They leave a wake of wrecked lives and lies about God, Turning their backs on the homeless hungry, ignoring those dying of thirst in the streets. And the crooks? Underhanded sneaks they are, inventive in sin and scandal, Exploiting the poor with scams and lies, unmoved by the victimized poor. But those who are noble make noble plans, and stand for what is noble.

Isaiah 32:8-20 (MSG)
But those who are noble make noble plans, and stand for what is noble.

Deuteronomy 7:25-26

Deuteronomy 7:25-26 (MSG)
Make sure you set fire to their carved gods. Don't get greedy for the veneer of silver and gold on them and take it for yourselves—you'll get trapped by it for sure. god hates it; it's an abomination to god, your God. And don't dare bring one of these abominations home or you'll end up just like it, burned up as a holy destruction. No: It is forbidden! Hate it. Abominate it. Destroy it and preserve god's holiness.

Deuteronomy 7:7-9, Deuteronomy 7:21-22

Deuteronomy 7:7-9 (MSG)
god wasn't attracted to you and didn't choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. god stepped in and mightily bought you back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know this: god, your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. But he also pays back those who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn't slow to pay them off—those who hate him, he pays right on time.

Deuteronomy 7:21-22 (MSG)
So don't be intimidated by them. god, your God, is among you—god majestic, god awesome. god, your God, will get rid of these nations, bit by bit. You won't be permitted to wipe them out all at once lest the wild animals take over and overwhelm you. But god, your God, will move them out of your way—he'll throw them into a huge panic until there's nothing left of them. He'll turn their kings over to you and you'll remove all trace of them under Heaven. Not one person will be able to stand up to you; you'll put an end to them all.

Acts 11:26

Acts 11:26 (MSG)
He found him and brought him back to Antioch. They were there a whole year, meeting with the church and teaching a lot of people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were for the first time called Christians.

Numbers 14:19

Numbers 14:19 (MSG)
"Please forgive the wrongdoing of this people out of the extravagance of your loyal love just as all along, from the time they left Egypt, you have been forgiving this people."

Numbers 13:33

Numbers 13:33 (MSG)
Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers."

Numbers 11:23

Numbers 11:23 (MSG)
god answered Moses, "So, do you think I can't take care of you? You'll see soon enough whether what I say happens for you or not."

Numbers 11:15

Numbers 11:15 (MSG)
If this is how you intend to treat me, do me a favor and kill me. I've seen enough; I've had enough. Let me out of here."

Acts 5:39

Acts 5:39 (MSG)
but if it is of God, there is nothing you can do about it-and you better not be found fighting against God!"

Acts 5:38

Acts 5:38 (MSG)
"So I am telling you: Hands off these men! Let them alone. If this program or this work is merely human, it will fall apart, but if it is of God, there is nothing you can do about it—and you better not be found fighting against God!"

Acts 5:38

Acts 5:38 (MSG)
"So I am telling you: Hands off these men! Let them alone. If this program or this work is merely human, it will fall apart, but if it is of God, there is nothing you can do about it—and you better not be found fighting against God!"

Acts 5:16

Acts 5:16 (MSG)
They came from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, throngs of them, bringing the sick and bedeviled. And they all were healed. To Obey God Rather than Men

Acts 5:15

Acts 5:15 (MSG)
They even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on stretchers and bedrolls, hoping they would be touched by Peter's shadow when he walked by.