pastoroasis

Proverbs 1:7

Proverbs 1:7 (MSG)
Start with god—the first step in learning is bowing down to god; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Psalm 1:3

Psalm 1:3 (MSG)
You're a tree replanted in Eden, bearing fresh fruit every month, Never dropping a leaf, always in blossom.

Matthew 2:6

Matthew 2:6 (MSG)
It's you, Bethlehem, in Judah's land, no longer bringing up the rear. From you will come the leader who will shepherd-rule my people, my Israel."

Matthew 1:12

Matthew 1:12 (MSG)
When the Babylonian exile ended, Jeconiah had Shealtiel, Shealtiel had Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel had Abiud, Abiud had Eliakim, Eliakim had Azor, Azor had Zadok, Zadok had Achim, Achim had Eliud, Eliud had Eleazar, Eleazar had Matthan, Matthan had Jacob, Jacob had Joseph, Mary's husband, the Mary who gave birth to Jesus, the Jesus who was called Christ.

Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 33:3 (MSG)
'Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.'

2 Peter 1:3

2 Peter 1:3 (KJV)
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Romans 12:1

Romans 12:1 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

1 Peter 4:12

1 Peter 4:12 (MSG)
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.

Proverbs 4:22

Proverbs 4:22 (MSG)
Those who discover these words live, really live; body and soul, they're bursting with health.

Proverbs 4:23

Proverbs 4:23 (MSG)
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

Nehemiah 2:20

Nehemiah 2:20 (NCV)
But I answered them, “The God of heaven will give us success. We, his servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no share, claim, or memorial in Jerusalem.”

Nehemiah 2:17

Nehemiah 2:17 (NCV)
Then I said to them, “You can see the trouble we have here. Jerusalem is a pile of ruins, and its gates have been burned. Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so we won’t be full of shame any longer.”

Nehemiah 4:10

Nehemiah 4:10 (NCV)
The people of Judah said, “The workers are getting tired. There is so much trash we cannot rebuild the wall.”

Romans 6:19

Romans 6:19 (NCV)
I use this example because this is hard for you to understand. In the past you offered the parts of your body to be slaves to sin and evil; you lived only for evil. In the same way now you must give yourselves to be slaves of goodness. Then you will live only for God.

Matthew 7:12

Matthew 7:12 (NCV)
“Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.

Daniel 6:4

Daniel 6:4 (NCV)
Because of this, the other supervisors and governors tried to find reasons to accuse Daniel about his work in the government. But they could not find anything wrong with him or any reason to accuse him, because he was trustworthy and not lazy or dishonest.

Genesis 7:16

Genesis 7:16 (NCV)
One male and one female of every living thing came, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.

Romans 5:16

Romans 5:16 (NCV)
After Adam sinned once, he was judged guilty. But the gift of God is different. God’s free gift came after many sins, and it makes people right with God.

Matthew 5:37

Matthew 5:37 (NCV)
Say only yes if you mean yes, and no if you mean no. If you say more than yes or no, it is from the Evil One.

Matthew 5:17

Matthew 5:17 (NCV)
“Don’t think that I have come to destroy the law of Moses or the teaching of the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to bring about what they said.

Jeremiah 5:25

Jeremiah 5:25 (NCV)
But your evil has kept away both rain and harvest. Your sins have kept you from enjoying good things.

Jeremiah 5:21

Jeremiah 5:21 (NCV)
Hear this message, you foolish people who have no sense. They have eyes, but they don’t really see. They have ears, but they don’t really listen.

Job 5:17

Job 5:17 (NCV)
“The one whom God corrects is happy, so do not hate being corrected by the Almighty.

Matthew 4:4

Matthew 4:4 (MSG)
Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: "It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God's mouth."

Romans 4:17

Romans 4:17 (MSG)
We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"