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Proverbs 29:25
Proverbs 29:25 (NLT)
Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the LORD means safety.Created 18 days ago
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Proverbs 28:13
Proverbs 28:13 (NLT)
People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.Created 18 days ago
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Proverbs 27:23-27
Proverbs 27:23-27 (NLT)
Know the state of your flocks, and put your heart into caring for your herds,Created 18 days ago
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Proverbs 27:12
Proverbs 27:12 (NLT)
A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.Created 18 days ago
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Proverbs 26:20
Proverbs 26:20 (NLT)
Fire goes out without wood, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 26:16
Proverbs 26:16 (NLT)
Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 26:15
Proverbs 26:15 (NLT)
Lazy people take food in their hand but don’t even lift it to their mouth.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 26:11
Proverbs 26:11 (NLT)
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 25:17, Proverbs 25:20
Proverbs 25:17 (NLT)
Don’t visit your neighbors too often, or you will wear out your welcome.Proverbs 25:20 (NLT)
Singing cheerful songs to a person with a heavy heart is like taking someone’s coat in cold weather or pouring vinegar in a wound.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 25:7
Proverbs 25:7 (NLT)
It’s better to wait for an invitation to the head table than to be sent away in public disgrace. Just because you’ve seen something,Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 24:17-18
Proverbs 24:17-18 (NLT)
Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall; don’t be happy when they stumble.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 24:16
Proverbs 24:16 (NLT)
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.Created 30 days ago
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Proverbs 23:4
Proverbs 23:4 (NLT)
Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 22:24-25
Proverbs 22:24-25 (NLT)
Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people,Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 22:7
Proverbs 22:7 (NLT)
Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 18:16
Proverbs 18:16 (NLT)
Giving a gift can open doors; it gives access to important people!Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 18:13
Proverbs 18:13 (NLT)
Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 17:24
Proverbs 17:24 (NLT)
Sensible people keep their eyes glued on wisdom, but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 17:16
Proverbs 17:16 (NLT)
It is senseless to pay tuition to educate a fool, since he has no heart for learning.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 17:14
Proverbs 17:14 (NLT)
Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 17:8-9
Proverbs 17:8-9 (NLT)
A bribe is like a lucky charm; whoever gives one will prosper!Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 16:33
Proverbs 16:33 (NLT)
We may throw the dice, but the LORD determines how they fall.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 16:32
Proverbs 16:32 (NLT)
Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 16:28
Proverbs 16:28 (NLT)
A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.Created about 1 month ago
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Proverbs 16:18
Proverbs 16:18 (NLT)
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.Created about 1 month ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-15
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Bookmarks
2011-11-16
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An eye for an eye
I use to feel this was a little harsh. But during my Emotion Course, I was thinking about how humans tend to inflict harsher revenge than what was done to them. God's law keeps that from happening.
Created 7 months ago
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Sacrifice
Judah is willing to sacrifice himself for Benjamin--whether or not he believes Benjamin is guilty--like Judah's descendant Jesus does for us.
Created 9 months ago
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Test?
Perhaps a test to see if the other brothers would become jealous of Benjamin...or if they had changed.
Created 9 months ago
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Be A Problem Solver
Not only did Joseph interpret the dreams, but then he offered a solution to the problem.
Created 9 months ago
Genesis 41:33 (NIV), Genesis 41:34 (NIV), Genesis 41:35 (NIV), Genesis 41:36 (NIV)
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Judah and Tamar Commentary Link
Great commentary on Genesis 38: http://www.bibletrack.org/cgi-bin/bible.pl?incr=0&mo=2&dy=3
Created 9 months ago
Genesis 38:1 (NIV), Genesis 38:2 (NIV), Genesis 38:3 (NIV), Genesis 38:4 (NIV), Genesis 38:5 (NIV), Genesis 38:6 (NIV), Genesis 38:7 (NIV), Genesis 38:8 (NIV), Genesis 38:9 (NIV), Genesis 38:10 (NIV), Genesis 38:11 (NIV), Genesis 38:12 (NIV), Genesis 38:13 (NIV), Genesis 38:14 (NIV), Genesis 38:15 (NIV), Genesis 38:16 (NIV), Genesis 38:17 (NIV), Genesis 38:18 (NIV), Genesis 38:19 (NIV), Genesis 38:20 (NIV), Genesis 38:21 (NIV), Genesis 38:22 (NIV), Genesis 38:23 (NIV), Genesis 38:24 (NIV), Genesis 38:25 (NIV), Genesis 38:26 (NIV), Genesis 38:27 (NIV), Genesis 38:28 (NIV), Genesis 38:29 (NIV), Genesis 38:30 (NIV)
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Attempting to please...a little late
Essau was already married to two Hittites, which upset his parents. Through the marriage of another, a Canaanite, he is now trying to please his father...a little late, with the wrong motivation. …
Created 10 months ago
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God's vs. Isaac's Plan--shown through the Blessing
As expected, this story of deception bothers me. Yet at the same time, it appears that God planned for Jacob to have the blessing. Genesis 25:23 And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb,…
Created 10 months ago
Genesis 25:23 (ESV), Genesis 27:4 (ESV), Genesis 27:33 (ESV), Genesis 28:1 (ESV)
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As God's Worker
I must be knowledgable about God and his word--through intense study--and have apply it to my own life (correctly handling the word of truth). It is God's desire.
Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2011-07-23
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How to accept God's gifts
This is a reminder that everything God creates is good. And we should remain in awe, pray over it, and thank God.
Created 11 months ago
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Sin
1. Pride: a high opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority 2. Arrogance: feeling of superiority towards other 3. Evil Behavior 4. Perverse Speech: wrong, wrongly stubborn, cranky,…
Created 12 months ago
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Wellbeing: Discouraged
When discouraged, put faith in God (things will get better). From experience, I also find that writing a gratitude (praise) list of all that God has done for me also helps. How can one not feel blessed…
Created 12 months ago
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Immediacy
Immediately serve others...don't hold back. Put others before self.
Created 12 months ago
Proverbs 3:9 (NIV), Proverbs 3:24 (NIV), Proverbs 3:28 (NIV)
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Values
Another version also used the words loyalty and kindness. Values: Loyalty/Faithfulness Kindness/Love
Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-06-16
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Justice
Abram was not seeking an alliance, riches or a reward, rather he did what he had done to right a wrong. Justice was the more important motivator...so God blessed him for his heart.
Created 12 months ago
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Abram's Faith Fails
Abram seeks protection in a lie about Sarai relationship to him versus in God. So God creates a situation in which the Pharaoh rebukes Abram and sends him out of Egypt (where God never sent Abram).
Created 12 months ago
Genesis 12:17 (NKJV), Genesis 12:18 (NKJV), Genesis 12:19 (NKJV), Genesis 12:20 (NKJV)
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-06-16
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Teamwork is not the Real Issue
I was a little confused by this chapter...why was teamwork bad? What was this really about? So I search the internet leading to this reasonable explanation: This tower was most likely a Mesopotamia…
Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-06-14
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-06-14
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Sin: Mocking
Definition of Mocking: 1. to frustrate the hopes of 2. disappoint 3. to express scorn or ridicule (make fun of) 4. jeer (abuse vocally, taunt, scoff) 5. derision (contemptuous) 6. in an insincere…
Created 12 months ago
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Money = Dangerous Priority
Money (specifically greed) -- when made the priority --takes away the life of the owner... This does not mean instantaneous death (we all died physically), but rather we make bad priority choices. Instead…
Created 12 months ago
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Remain Open
Be open to correction and instruction, especially from those that know you well such as your parents. See the feedback wisely as a blessing. Do not react; rather meditate on the ideas, absorbing what…
Created 12 months ago
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Values
- discipline - rightness - justice - fairness Notice that there is no sense of entitlement!
Created 12 months ago
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My Amazement: Seven Pairs
For some reason, I had missed this until now (I always assumed it was a pair of each animals...two by two): God commanded Noah to bring seven pairs of each animal which takes care of genetic diversity...less…
Created 12 months ago
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My Amazement: Lifespan
Normal lifespan is to be under 120 years. This is in line with the oldest people alive nowadays: Guinness World Records lists the oldest woman as 122 and the oldest man as 120 years old. Pretty neat…
Created 12 months ago
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Call Upon the Name: Idolatry
What does it mean that "then began man to call upon the name of the Lord"? This is confusing as didn't Adam and Eve have a personal relationship with the Lord? I started looking on the internet and…
Created 12 months ago
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Control Sin: A Choice
God points out sin doesn't "happen", rather you control it! It is our choice; therefore, proactively choose not to sin.
Created 12 months ago
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Shame: A Warning
Bad decisions create shame: listen to the inner voice (consciousness/God/Holy Spirit) as one way to discern decisions that are poor and sinful. Would I be a shame in front of God? If so, I need to choose…
Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-06-14
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-06-13