Nayana Abraham

defending your faith

1 Pedro 3:15 (RVC)
Al contrario, honren en su corazón a Cristo, como Señor, y manténganse siempre listos para defenderse, con mansedumbre y respeto, ante aquellos que les pidan explicarles la esperanza que hay en ustedes.

Matthew 9:13

Matthew 9:13 (MSG)
Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders."

Nothing can separate

Romanos 8:38-39 (RVC)
Por lo cual estoy seguro de que ni la muerte, ni la vida, ni los ángeles, ni los principados, ni las potestades, ni lo presente, ni lo por venir,

Love like that.

Ephesians 5:2 (MSG)
Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Psalm 103:10-12

Psalm 103:10-12 (MSG)
He doesn't treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs.

Ephesians 5:2

Ephesians 5:2 (MSG)
Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Ephesians 2:8

Ephesians 2:8 (MSG)
Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish!

Ephesians 2:9

Ephesians 2:9 (MSG)
We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing!

Colossians 3:5

Colossians 3:5 (MSG)
And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That's a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.

1 Corinthians 13:4

1 Corinthians 13:4 (MSG)
Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head,

1 Corinthians 13:5

1 Corinthians 13:5 (MSG)
Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Hebrews 13:4

Hebrews 13:4 (MSG)
Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex.

Psalm 4:7

Psalm 4:7 (MSG)
More joy in one ordinary day Than they get in all their shopping sprees.

Habakkuk 3:2

Habakkuk 3:2 (MSG)
God, I've heard what our ancestors say about you, and I'm stopped in my tracks, down on my knees. Do among us what you did among them. Work among us as you worked among them. And as you bring judgment, as you surely must, remember mercy.

Esther 4:14

Esther 4:14 (MSG)
If you persist in staying silent at a time like this, help and deliverance will arrive for the Jews from someplace else; but you and your family will be wiped out. Who knows? Maybe you were made queen for just such a time as this."

Esther 4:16

Esther 4:16 (MSG)
"Go and get all the Jews living in Susa together. Fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, either day or night. I and my maids will fast with you. If you will do this, I'll go to the king, even though it's forbidden. If I die, I die."

James 4:10

James 4:10 (MSG)
Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet.

James 4:9

James 4:9 (MSG)
Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious.

James 4:8

James 4:8 (MSG)
Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field.

James 4:7

James 4:7 (MSG)
So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet.

James 2:20

James 2:20 (MSG)
Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?

James 2:17

James 2:17 (MSG)
Isn't it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?

James 2:11

James 2:11 (MSG)
The same God who said, "Don't commit adultery," also said, "Don't murder." If you don't commit adultery but go ahead and murder, do you think your non-adultery will cancel out your murder? No, you're a murderer, period.

James 1:25

James 1:25 (MSG)
But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.

James 1:24

James 1:24 (MSG)
walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.