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Temptation never from God

James 1:12 (MSG)
Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

James 1:18 (MSG)
He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.

Luke 19:43

Luke 19:43 (MSG)
In the days ahead your enemies are going to bring up their heavy artillery and surround you, pressing in from every side.

lazy sins, sinning may be the product of inactivity. as if it is our default nature.

1 Peter 1:14 (MSG)
Don't lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn't know any better then; you do now.

anger

Ephesians 4:26-27 (MSG)
Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don't use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don't stay angry. Don't go to bed angry. Don't give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.

Psalm 19:1

Psalm 19:1 (MSG)
God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon. Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening.

Matthew 11:15

Matthew 11:15 (MSG)
"Are you listening to me? Really listening?

wages of sin

Romans 6:23 (TNIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 10:30

John 10:30 (MSG)
I and the Father are one heart and mind."

John 10:37

John 10:37 (MSG)
If I don't do the things my Father does, well and good; don't believe me.

ΠΡΟΣ ΕΦΕΣΙΟΥΣ 4:26

ΠΡΟΣ ΕΦΕΣΙΟΥΣ 4:26 (TR1624)
οργιζεσθε και μη αμαρτανετε ο ηλιος μη επιδυετω επι τω παροργισμω υμων

Luke 8:48

Luke 8:48 (AMP)
And He said to her, Daughter, your faith (your confidence and trust in Me) has made you well! Go (enter) into peace (untroubled, undisturbed well-being).

Romans 3:25

Romans 3:25 (MSG)
God sacrificed Jesus on the altar of the world to clear that world of sin. Having faith in him sets us in the clear. God decided on this course of action in full view of the public—to set the world in the clear with himself through the sacrifice of Jesus, finally taking care of the sins he had so patiently endured. This is not only clear, but it's now—this is current history! God sets things right. He also makes it possible for us to live in his rightness.

Isaiah 59:13

Isaiah 59:13 (MSG)
Mocking and denying God, not following our God, Spreading false rumors, inciting sedition, pregnant with lies, muttering malice.

Isaiah 59:14

Isaiah 59:14 (MSG)
Justice is beaten back, Righteousness is banished to the sidelines, Truth staggers down the street, Honesty is nowhere to be found,

Isaiah 59:14

Isaiah 59:14 (MSG)
Justice is beaten back, Righteousness is banished to the sidelines, Truth staggers down the street, Honesty is nowhere to be found,

Romans 5:13

Romans 5:13 (MSG)
That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses.

Luke 17:11

Luke 17:11 (MSG)
It happened that as he made his way toward Jerusalem, he crossed over the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten men, all lepers, met him. They kept their distance but raised their voices, calling out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

Luke 17:17

Luke 17:17 (MSG)
Jesus said, "Were not ten healed? Where are the nine? Can none be found to come back and give glory to God except this outsider?" Then he said to him, "Get up. On your way. Your faith has healed and saved you."

Galatians 5:14

Galatians 5:14 (MSG)
For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.

Galatians 5:17

Galatians 5:17 (MSG)
For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day.

Galatians 5:18

Galatians 5:18 (MSG)
Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

Galatians 5:19

Galatians 5:19 (MSG)
It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

Galatians 5:20

Galatians 5:20 (MSG)
trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits;

Galatians 5:21

Galatians 5:21 (MSG)
the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

Galatians 5:22

Galatians 5:22 (MSG)
But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.