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Matthew 19:19, Matthew 19:25-26

Matthew 19:19 (NIV)
honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'"

Matthew 19:25-26 (NIV)
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?"

2 Samuel 23:3

2 Samuel 23:3 (NIV)
The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: 'When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,

1 Samuel 15:22

1 Samuel 15:22 (MSG)
Then Samuel said, Do you think all god wants are sacrifices— empty rituals just for show? He wants you to listen to him! Plain listening is the thing, not staging a lavish religious production. Not doing what god tells you is far worse than fooling around in the occult. Getting self-important around god is far worse than making deals with your dead ancestors. Because you said No to god's command, he says No to your kingship.

2 Corinthians 2:11

2 Corinthians 2:11 (NIV)
in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

Romans 2:14-15

Romans 2:14-15 (MSG)
When outsiders who have never heard of God's law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God's law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God's yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God's yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman. The Message from God that I proclaim through Jesus Christ takes into account all these differences.

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:5 (AMP)
For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.

Romans 8:4

Romans 8:4 (AMP)
So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].

Romans 8:5, Romans 8:10-11

Romans 8:5 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Romans 8:10-11 (MSG)
But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells-even though you still experience all the limitations of sin-you yourself experience life on God's terms.

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:5 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Psalm 51:17

Psalm 51:17 (MSG)
I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice.

Psalm 139:11-12

Psalm 139:11-12 (MSG)
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!"

Romans 7:18, Romans 7:25

Romans 7:18 (MSG)
I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it.

Romans 7:25 (MSG)
The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

Romans 7:18

Romans 7:18 (MSG)
I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it.

Matthew 5:3-11

Matthew 5:3-11 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

Matthew 5:3

Matthew 5:3 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

1 John 4:11-12

1 John 4:11-12 (MSG)
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

Habakkuk 3:17-19

Habakkuk 3:17-19 (MSG)
Though the cherry trees don't blossom and the strawberries don't ripen, Though the apples are worm-eaten and the wheat fields stunted, Though the sheep pens are sheepless and the cattle barns empty, I'm singing joyful praise to God. I'm turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God. Counting on God's Rule to prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run like a deer. I feel like I'm king of the mountain! (For congregational use, with a full orchestra.)

1 Peter 1:22

1 Peter 1:22 (MSG)
Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That's why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop, God's Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.

John 12:25

John 12:25 (MSG)
In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal.

John 11:15

John 11:15 (MSG)
And I am glad for your sakes that I wasn't there. You're about to be given new grounds for believing. Now let's go to him."

Amos 5:14-15

Amos 5:14-15 (MSG)
Seek good and not evil— and live! You talk about God, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies, being your best friend. Well, live like it, and maybe it will happen.

Philippians 4:7, Philippians 4:17

Philippians 4:7 (CEV)
Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel.

Philippians 4:17 (CEV)
I am not trying to get something from you, but I want you to receive the blessings that come from giving.

Philippians 4:7

Philippians 4:7 (CEV)
Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel.

Joel 2:28

Joel 2:28 (CEV)
Later, I will give my Spirit to everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

Psalm 2:12

Psalm 2:12 (AMP)
Kiss the Son [pay homage to Him in purity], lest He be angry and you perish in the way, for soon shall His wrath be kindled. O blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are all those who seek refuge and put their trust in Him!