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highlighted Matthew 5:20 NLT
“But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
Oct 7
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highlighted Matthew 5:19 NLT
So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Oct 7
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highlighted Matthew 5:16 NLT
In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.
Oct 7
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highlighted Matthew 5:14-15 NLT
“You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.
Oct 7
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highlighted Matthew 5:12 NLT
Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.
Oct 7
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highlighted Matthew 5:11 NLT
“God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.
Oct 7
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highlighted Psalms 20:5 NLT
May we shout for joy when we hear of your victory and raise a victory banner in the name of our God. May the LORD answer all your prayers.
Oct 7
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highlighted Psalms 20:4 NLT
May he grant your heart’s desires and make all your plans succeed.
Oct 7
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highlighted Colossians 3:23 NLT
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Oct 1
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highlighted 1 Peter 2:24 NLT
He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.
Oct 1
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highlighted John 3:17-18 NLT
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.
Oct 1
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highlighted Psalms 37:4-7 NLT
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act. Don’t worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.
Oct 1
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highlighted Hebrews 4:16 NLT
So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
Sep 26
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highlighted James 1:27 ESV
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Sep 19
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highlighted James 1:22 ESV
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Sep 19
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highlighted James 1:19 ESV
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Sep 19
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highlighted James 1:17 ESV
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Sep 19
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highlighted Micah 6:8 ESV
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Sep 19
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highlighted John 15:17-19 ESV
These things I command you, so that you will love one another."If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Sep 19
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highlighted John 15:13 ESV
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Sep 19