Verse of the Day | August 18, 2024
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How long will you lie there, you lazy person? When will you get up from sleeping? You sleep a little; you take a nap. You fold your hands and lie down to rest. So you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been he...
Be wise in the way you act with those who are not believers. Use your time in the best way you can.
So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely. Use every chance you have for doing good, because these are evil times. So do not be foolish but learn what the Lord wants you to do.
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, βNever will I leave you; never will I forsake you.β
Work hard, but not just to please your masters when they are watching. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart.
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them.
βAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knockand the door will be opened to you.β
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
βAnd God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.β
βTherefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.β
βI have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have love...
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.β