With always a big smile one of my Dad’s favorite rejoinders was “If all else fails, read the directions!”

We have e life, e mail, e biz, e commerce, and folks I have the pleasure to announce that we also have e manual.  We have a good set of directions to help us get re orientated and recharged and renewed.  And e manual sounds like Immanuel or Emmanuel which means that God is with us always and forever right with us inside us and beside us.  In childhood, teenage, young adult, old adult, storm, nice day, flood, dark, light, work, breakfast, sleep, exhaustion, travel, found, lost, wandering, walking, fear, friendship, joy, laughter, tears, sorrow, earning, loss, play, loneliness, and companionship.

Romans 12 is my favorite chapter of Scripture.  It is quite challenging and a summation of orders that one has to follow to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.  I also love the Second Letter of Peter in it’s entirety and the last paragraph of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) Chapter 30.

I was given a copy of the Jerusalem Bible many years ago by my parents.  It sat for a long time.  In college a friend who eventually went onto the priesthood suggested Bible Roulette, praying, and being still for some minutes each day.  I took him up on this flipping through scriptures and eventually my first copy became pretty worn out.  I have since purchased a readers version and eventually started scrawling my favorite versus on the blank pages of the Bible.  It’s a treasure hunt.  Many mornings find me coming across one or a few that resound and so get added to the list.

I have at times given some copies of The Jerusalem Bible out as gifts.  I find that the original version is more beautiful than The New Jerusalem Bible.  I am fine with inclusive language but I find that the manner in which it was done in this New version tanks the gorgeousness of the original 60’s version.

I do 10 minutes minimum of reading and praying and take a 10 minute slow walk in the woods with the dog at the beginning of most days.  It has helped a lot.

Life has lots of challenges and I think that getting on line with God is obviously more powerful than the idiocy of pretending to not depend on our creator.  A computer can do a bunch more when on line and we can do so much more when we are on line with God.

Of course we are all connected to God always anyways.  So why not develop this along with the rest of our lives to be as good as good can be?  Things flow better.

Here are the other versus most with my cryptic summary that are scrawled in the once blank spots of my second copy of The Jerusalem Bible:

2 Timothy 4:1-5 ….Refute falsehood, correct error, call to obedience …

Proverbs 22:24   Make friends with no person who gives way to anger.

Ecclesiasticus 28   …avoid resentment and anger..

Proverbs 15:4   …. tongue that soothes is the tree of life … barbed tongue breaks hearts …

Ecclesiasticus 3:17-26   … do business with gentleness …. be humble …

2 Maccabees 6:12-17 … constant discipline by Lord means we are loved ….

2 Thessalonians 3:5   May the Lord turn our hearts to the love of God and the fortitude of Christ

Philippians 2:15   Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing … you will shine like  bright stars ……

John 6:35   Who comes to me … never hungry …. who believes in me …. never thirst …

Isaiah 53:12   …while he was bearing the faults of many & praying all the time for sinners ….

Mark 4:1   Again he began to teach by the lakeside ….

Galatians 3   Justified by Faith

Hebrews 11   Justified by Faith

2 Timothy 2:1   Accept the Strength my dear child that comes from the grace of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:3   Put up with your share of difficulties like a good soldier of Christ Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8   Remember the Good News that I carry, “Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, sprung from the house of David.”

Philippians 1:9   My prayer is that your love for each other may increase more & more and never stop improving your knowledge and deepening your perception so that you can always recognize what is best.

1 Timothy 4:10   Saviour of all people, particularly believers

Proverbs 16:3   Commend what you do to Yahweh and your plans will find achievement

Galatians 3:23-29   …. the law is supplanted by belonging to Christ and so No Distinctions

Ezekiel 3:22   I am going to speak to you

1 Timothy 2:1-2   My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, ……

Galatians 5:1   Do not submit again to the yoke of slavery (sin)

Psalm 37:8   Enough of anger, leave rage aside, do not worry, nothing but evil can come of it

Acts 10:34-36   Anyone of any nationality who fears (loves) God and does what is right is acceptable to him ….. Good news of Peace ….

Mark 5:36   Do not be afraid: only have faith

Psalm 98:3-9   The most distant parts of the earth have seen

the saving power of our God.

Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth,

burst into shouts of joy!

Sing to Yahweh, sing to the music of harps,

and to the sound of many instruments;

to the sound of trumpet and horn

acclaim Yahweh the King!

Let the sea thunder and all that it holds,

and the world, with all who live in it;

let all the rivers clap their hands

and the mountains shout for joy,

at the presence of Yahweh, for he comes

to judge the earth,

to judge the world with righteousness

1 Corinthians 4:18-21 …. want to know what self important can do, …. not just words- power …. love & goodwill

James 3:2   Everyone of us does something wrong over & over again.

Colossians 2:6-7+   Live whole life in Christ … rooted in him, built on him, held firm by faith, taught, full of thanksgiving

2 Peter 3:14   Live without spot or stain so he can find you at peace

Acts 14:15  …we have come with good news to make you turn from empty idols to the LIVING GOD who created heaven & earth & sea & all that these hold ….

Proverbs 30:8  Give me neither poverty or riches

Matthew 5:30  …If virtue no deeper than scribes and pharisees, then not make it to heaven ….

2 Thessalonians 2:17  May the Lord Jesus Christ …. & God comfort & hope & strengthen you in all you …..

Psalm 48:14  Then tell the next generation that God is here.  Our God & Leader for ever & ever ….

Ecclesiasticus 32:18  A sensible person never scorns a suggestion

Psalm 26 …. blameless ….. live my life in loyalty to you ….

Ecclesiasticus 27:30  Resentment and Anger are foul …

Psalm 49  … why should I should be afraid of evil times …. futility of riches ….

Romans 15:13  May the God of Hope bring you such joy and peace in your faith that the power of the Holy Spirit will remove all bounds to hope.

Psalm 119:160  Faithfulness is the essence of your word…

Colossians 2:6-8  Live whole life in Christ ..

1 Chronicles 16:27…  IN his sanctuary ,,,, power & joy

Psalm 37:34

Psalm 37:34  Put your hope in Yahweh, keep his way & he will save you from the wicked, raising you ….

Ecclesiasticus 30:14  Better a poor man healthy & fit than a rich man tormented in body.

1 Chronicles 16:25  Yahweh is great, Loud must be his praise.

Proverbs 8:17-21  …. The fruit I give is better than gold, even the finest …. by me rulers govern ….

John 17:24  .. anything you ask for from the Father, he will grant in my name …

Ephesians 4:9-16 … unity in our faith and knowledge of Son of Man …. then no longer children & tossed about ….

John 4:24  Those who worship do in spirit & truth ..

1 Timothy 6:8-9 & 11  … We brought nothing in & can take nothing out …. as long as food & clothing , be content …. people who long to be rich are prey to temptation … eventually ruined …. but you aim to be saintly & holy filled with faith & love, patient & gentle ….

John 14:14 & 21   If you ask for anything in my name … I will do it …. with you and in you ….

Titus 2:14  He sacrificed himself for us in order to set us free from all wickedness and to purify a people so that it could be his very ownand would have no ambition except to do good.

Psalm 27:14   Put your hope in Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold.  Put your hope in Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 4:29   …if you seek him with all your heart & with all your soul, you shall find him …..

Ezekiel 22:2   Confront her with all her filthy crimes …

Psalm 6 ….. end of one’s rope ….

Malachi 3:18   …. once again the difference between upright & evil … leap like calves  …. sun of righteousness shine out with it’s healing rays…

2 Chronicles 15:2 … Yahweh is with you so long as you are with him ….

Jeremiah 4 … it is to me you must return ….

Ecclesiasticus 27:6   The test of a person is in their conversation

Hebrews 6:2   … laying-on of hands …

Ecclesiastes 11:10   cast worry from your heart…. shield your flesh from pain …

Ecclesiasticus 19:4   Being too ready to trust shows shallow mind

2 Thessalonians 3:16   May the Lord of Peace himself give you peace all the time & in every way.  The Lord be with  you all.

Psalm 44:8   our boast was always of God … we praised your name without ceasing …

John 5:24   …. whoever listens to my words & believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life ..

Jeremiah 9:22-24   …. boast only in understanding and knowing the Lord

Proverbs 16:24   Kindly words are a honeycomb … wholesome to the body

2 Peter 1:2   May you have more & more grace & peace as you come to know our Lord more & more.

Jeremiah 23:23,24   Am I God when near …. & not when far away? ….. Do I not fill heaven and earth? …

Hebrews 13:20-21   ….may make you ready to do his will ….

1 Peter 2:11   while visitors & pilgrims keep free from selfish passions that attack the soul

Proverbs 27:11   Learn to be wise my child & gladden my heart that I might have an answer for those who insult me…

Proverbs 24:10   If you loose heart when adversity comes, your strength will only be weakness

Colossians 1:9…   ….. to bear anything joyfully ….

Romans 8:19   …. becomes doves of righteousness …

2 Corinthians 4 …   … we will have none of the reticence of those who are ashamed …

Wisdom 15:4 … no invention …. has led us astray

Baruch 6:69-72   ….their wooden gods like a scarecrow …

Romans 15:4 … everything that was written long ago was to teach us something about hope ….

Colossians 2:16 … don’t let people decide what you are to eat and ….make you ….. observe Sabbath

Jeremiah 23:29   Does not my word burn like fire … is it not like a hammer shattering rock ….

2 Kings 4 …. … some miracles of Elisha …. multiplication of oil …. resurrection ….  birth … healing … bread

Colossians 4:3   Pray that I might proclaim it as clearly as I ought ….

1 Corinthians 6:18-20   Your body, you know, is the temple of the Holy Spirit …

Nehemiah  9:16-17   But your fathers grew proud & obstinate … refused to obey, forgetful of the wonders …

Psalm 52:8-9   I for my part like an olive tree growing in the house of God, put my trust in God’s love forever & ever …. thank you constantly …. & hope in your name.

Jeremiah 15:19   If you come back, I will take you back into my service …. and if you utter noble thoughts …. you shall be as my own mouth … I will make you a bronze wall …

John 16:33   In the world you will have trouble, but be brave, I have conquered the world

Isaiah 4:14   Do not be afraid, Jacob, poor worm, Israel, puny mite

1 Thessalonians 4:13   We want you to be quite certain about those who have died, to make sure that you do not grieve about them, like the other people that have no hope.

Psalm 103:4   crowning you with love & tenderness …

Ecclesiasticus 20:31–33   Better a person who conceals folly than one who conceals wisdom ..

2 Samuel 23:3-4   The rock of Israel has said to me who rules with justice is like morning light at sunrise with no clouds ….. making the dew on the grass sparkle ..

Proverbs 23:23   Truth you must purchase & never sell;  this is wisdom, discipline, & discernment

1 Corinthians 12:27   Now you together are Christ’s body

Ecclesiasticus 2:23   Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, not into the hands of people;  for as his majesty is, so is his mercy

Hebrews 12   don’t loose sight of Jesus … keep on ….

Proverbs 4:10-24   Listen child, take my words to heart and the years of your life will be multiplied

Luke 21:34   watch yourselves or your hearts will be coarsened with debauchery, drunkenness, and the cares of life

John 4:23-24   God wants worship in spirit & truth.  God is spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:22   I see there is no happiness for people but to be happy in their work

Psalm 25:10   All Yahweh’s paths are love & truth

1 Samuel 10:19   You rejected God … take your positions …

Baruch 2:11   ….we done bad …. please rescue us …

Proverbs 19:8   ….they who care about discernment will find happiness …

Psalm 115:13  …ours is the God whose will is sovereign ..

Jeremiah 31:14 … and see my people have their fill of my good things …

Ephesians 2:10   …. we are God’s work of art …

Daniel 3:27   … In all you have done, your justice is apparent

Proverbs 19:22   A person’s attraction is in their kindness

2 Maccabees 6:12   …. calamities …. provide discipline ….

Romans 15:4   …. what written long ago ….. hope …. don’t give up …

Joshua 24:14   So now fear Yahweh & serve him perfectly & sincerely ..

1 Maccabees 2:61   Consider, then, in how generation after generation all who hope in him will not be found to falter

….. v 64 …. My children, play the adult and be courageous for the law, for it will bring you glory.

Ecclesiasticus 7:30   … with all your might love him who made you …

Isaiah 41:10   Do not be afraid for I am with you;  stop being anxious & watchful, for I am your God

Titus 2:14   …. No ambition except to do good …

Esther 8:12b   … all is forgiven under eye of God ..

Ecclesiasticus 39:33-35   All the works of the Lord are good, and he will supply every want in due time.   You must not say, “This is worse than that,” for everything will prove its’ value in its’ time.  So now, sing with all you heart and voice and bless the name of the Lord!

Job 34:30   God takes pity & … freeing the Godless from the meshes of distresses ..

Ecclesiasticus 6:33   If you love listening, you will learn

Luke 12:2-3   …. everything covered will be shouted from housetops ….

Proverbs 22:3   The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh, … riches, honor, life …

Proverbs 3:5-6   Trust wholeheartedly in Yahweh.  Put no faith in your own perception.

2 Timothy 2   Accept the strength ….  that comes from the grace of Jesus Christ ..

Deuteronomy 1:29   … and I said to you …. do not take fright ….

1 Kings 15:3   … his heart was not wholly with Yahweh, his God …

Hosea 4:14   Thus does a senseless people …. run to ruin

Ezekiel 28  …. knock down … take down …

Colossians 3:2   … let your thoughts be on heavenly things …

Ecclesiasticus 38:9   My child, when you are ill don’t get down.  Pray to the Lord and he will heal you.

Proverbs 16:6   By kindness & loyalty atonement is made for sin.

Psalm 103 … crowns you with love and tenderness ..

Phillippians  …. do all that is to be done without complaint and argument …

Exodus 34:6-7   Yahweh, Yahweh, a God of tenderness & compassion, slow to anger, rich in kindness ..

Proverbs 18:14   Sickness the Spirit can endure, but when the Spirit is broken, who can endure?

James 1:21   …. accept & submit to the word that has been planted in you …

Psalm 94:9  Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear, the creator of the eye unable to see?

Psalm 17:2   …. your eyes fixed on what is right …

1 Peter 2:4   … set yourselves close to him….

Judith:13:7   Lord God, to whom all strength belongs, prosper my hands what my hands are now to do

2 Corinthians 1:12   … treat everyone with reverence & sincerity

Psalm 85:8 …10-13   I am listening.  What is Yahweh saying?  ….. if only they would renounce their folly …. Love & Loyalty now meet, Righteousness & Peace now embrace …. Yahweh bestows happiness as our soil gives its harvest …

1 Timothy 4:12   Do not let people disregard you because you are young ….

Jeremiah 6:16   Yahweh says this:  Put yourselves on the ways of long ago, enquire about the ancient paths.  Which was the good way.  Take it then, and you shall find rest.

Joshua 1:6   Be strong & stand firm …

1 Samuel 17:30   What have I done?  Must I not even speak?

Romans 4:18   Though it seemed Abraham’s hope could not be fulfilled, he hoped and believed …

Tobit 4:18   Bless the Lord in everything & beg him to guide you ways and bring your path and purposes to their end.   Chapters 4,5, & 6 ….. beautiful Father to Son summary. …

Proverbs 23:17-18   Be steady everyday in the fear of Yahweh, for there is a morrow

Psalm 53:1   The fool says in his heart, “There is no God!”  They are false, corrupt,  vile

Proverbs 27:23-24   Know your flock’s condition well, take good care of your herd;  since riches do not last forever.

John 6:27   Don’t work for food that doesn’t last.  Work for food that endures to eternal life.

Job 4:7   Was there anyone ever found blameless?

Ecclesiasticus 7:21-28   With all your soul hold the Lord in awe …. With all your might love the one who made you

Titus 3:1,2 …    be ready to do good at every opportunity  ….  be courteous & always polite to all kinds of people

2 Corinthians 3:17-18  …. where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.   And we with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all growing brighter and brighter until we are turned into the image we reflect..

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:6 ….veil lifted by turning to the Lord …  awesome thick read

Deuteronomy 29:28   Things hidden belong to Yahweh, things revealed belong to us and our children.

Hosea 6:3   That he will come is certain as the dawn.

Romans 13:13   Let us live decently as people do in daytime

Lamentations 3:22-24   The favors of Yahweh are not all past, his kindnesses are not exhausted, every morning they are renewed; great is his faithfulness …

1 Peter 2:24   You had gone astray like sheep but now you have come back to the shepherd and guardian of our souls

1 John 3:1   Think of the love that has been lavished on us

1 Peter 5:1-4   Lead gladly eagerly cause you want to

Leviticus 25:23   … the land belongs to me …

1 Maccabees 14   eulogy to a strong, good leader

Isaiah 58   …. shine like dawn  …. shadows like noon …

2 Chronicles 15:2   When you seek him he lets you find him;  When you desert him, he deserts you

Judith 9:3   God my God you have made past, present, & what will follow

Numbers 14:27   How long does this perverse community, which complains against me …

Psalm 32:8   I will watch you and teach you & instruct you in the way to go.  I will watch over you and be your advisor

Psalm 33:20-22   Our soul awaits Yahweh, He is our help & our shield.  Our hearts rejoice in him.  We trust in his holy name. Yahweh, let your love rest on us, as our hope has rested in you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18   Be happy at all times, pray constantly, and for all things, give thanks to God, because this is what God expects you to do in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:9 … having died to make us righteous, is it likely that he would now fail to save us from God’s anger?

Ecclesiastes 7:16-17   Do not be over virtuous nor play too much the sage

Matthew 9:18…  One of the officials bowed down to him, “my daughter just died.  Come lay your hands on …” …. woman touched cloak …

Psalm 34:11-12   Come my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear (love) of Yahweh.  Which of you wants to live life to the full?  Who loves long life and enjoyment of prosperity?

2 Chronicles 31:21   All … he performed while seeking God with all his heart, and he prospered.

Proverbs 16:7   Let Yahweh be pleased with one’s way of life and he makes his very enemies into friends

Proverbs 14:26   Fear of Yahweh is food grounds for confidence.  In him his children find refuge

1 Chronicles 16:11   Seek Yahweh & his strength .. seek his face untiringly

Hebrews 10:36   You will need endurance to do God’s will & gain what he has promised

Zechariah 9:16-17   … he will pasture his people like a flock (like the flashing jewels of a diadem) on his land.  What joy & beauty shall be theirs!  Corn will make the young men flourish, and sweet wind, the maidens

Ecclesiasticus 44 …. eulogy … of ancestors …. their bodies have been buried in peace …

Psalm 30:5   His anger lasts a moment, his favor a lifetime;  in the evening, a spell of tears, in the morning, shouts of joy.

Ecclesiasticus 4:28   Do not refrain from speech at an opportune time, and do

not hide your wisdom.

Jeremiah 31:18-19   You have disciplined me, I have accepted the discipline

Isaiah 11  a root springs from the rock of Jesse  …. lion with lamb … leader … integrity … faithfulness …. a spirit of wisdom, a spirit of counsel and power, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh ..

2 Maccabees 12:13   Hebrews were invincible because mighty God fought for

1 Kings 1:29   As Yahweh lives who has delivered me from all adversity

Psalm 19:7   The precepts of Yahweh are upright, joy for the heart

2 Thessalonians 3:3&5   … the Lord is faithful, and he will give you strength ….May the Lord turn hearts to love of God & fortitude of Christ

Psalm 104   …. glories of creation …

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17   ….. comfort and strengthen you in everything

Isaiah 51:7   Do not fear taunts of men nor be dismayed by insults

Ecclesiasticus 21:14   Intelligence can increase bitterness

…. 8:34   Whenever he straightened them, they sought him

2 Corinthians 1:9   Not rely on ourselves, only on God

Zephaniah 2:3   Seek Yahweh, seek integrity, seek humility

Job 18:4   the world, for all your rage, will not ….

Phillipians 1:9   My prayer is that love for each other …. more …

2 Corinthians 11:3   simple devotion to Christ to keep ideals ..

Ecclesiasticus 26:7   False accusation worse than death

2 Timothy 2:25   Gentle when correct people

Proverbs 15:13   Glad Heart means happy face

Exodus 16   hoarfrost & quail … gather only what need …

1 Corinthians 1:31   Boast about the Lord only

Psalm 101:5-6-8  … I will reduce to silence those secret attackers …. .. I will make up a home of my religious friends …. I reduce to silence all who are wicked in this country…

2 Peter 1   Kindness to devotion to love

Proverbs 14:34   Virtue makes a nation great

Proverbs 14:23   Hard work always yields it’s profit

1 Corinthians 14:1   You must want love more than any …

Deuteronomy 7:17-24   ….So will Yahweh your God deal with all the peoples whom you fear to face ….

Proverbs 17:22   Glad Heart is excellent medicine

1 Maccabees 2:61-64   …. rely on God through trial …

1 Corinthians 14:39-40   … and so be ambitious to prophesy, do not suppress, let be done in order …

2 Timothy 1:6-8   … never be ashamed witnessing for Lord…  fan into flame … spirit …. spirit of power … love ..

1 Corinthians 15:42-44   What is sown is perishable, what is raised is eternal

Proverbs 1:33   Whoever listens to me will live secure, they will have quiet, fearing no  mischance

2 Samuel 23   The Spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, his word is on my tongue

1 Thessalonians 2:8   Instead we are unassuming like a mother feeding her own children

Proverbs 21:3   To act virtuously & with Justice is more pleasing to Yahweh than sacrifice

Proverbs 21:21   Who pursues virtue & kindness shall find life and honor too

Ecclesiasticus 29:11..   … do not keep them waiting on your generosity ….  do not let it go to waste rusting under a stone …

James 1:27   Pure, unspoilt religion, in the eyes of God our Father is this: coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world.

Romans 12   whole chapter is the basic assignment

Romans 2:14   non believers know the law

Job 12:18-22  … words rushing …

Proverbs 16:12   … virtue is throne’s foundation ..

Romans 5   suffering brings patience brings perseverance brings hope

1 Peter 3:8-12   towards sisters and brothers … virtue

Ecclesiasticus 29  … loans. …

Psalm 37   Make Yahweh your only joy

Psalm 115:11   If you love Yahweh, rely on Yahweh.

Romans 8:28   co operate

Psalm 16:7   night inmost self counsel   Psalm 14,15,16

Psalm 32:10   Grace enfolds the person who trusts in Yahweh

Tobit 12:8   Prayer, Fasting, Alms bring riches  & in 12 in general Raphael proclaim happiness

1 Peter 4:13  There is nothing extraordinary in what has happened to you.

1 Peter 4:19   even those God allows to suffer must trust constancy of God and keep doing good

1 Timothy 17-19   … riches of Life that are real…

Wisdom 14   … idols not so good …

Hebrews 11  … by faith …. by faith … by faith …

Ecclesiastes 8:7-10   Go eat with joy and do the work you can ..

Ephesians 6:1-4   Children be obedient … and respectful and …Parents never drive your children to resent …

Ephesians 6:5-9   in work…. be obedient …. deep respect and sincere loyalty as if to Christ …. work hard and willingly, but do it for the sake of the Lord …. and employers …. do without threats …. our Master in heaven not impressed by one person more than another  …

Phillipians 4:11-13   I can handle anything with the help of the one who gives me strength

Romans 3:29   …. God the God …. of the Pagans too …

Proverbs 20:27   Person is lamp of God

Mark 4:20   … accept …

Ephesians 3:14-21  …. filled with the utter fullness of God ….

2 Maccabees 6:12-17   discipline … brings .. benevolence …

2 Maccabees 6:26   .. never avoid the grasp of the Almighty …

1 Thessalonians 4:7   … called to be Holy …

Mark 9:40   … anyone not against is for …

Job 38:22  Have you ever visited the place where the snow is kept? …

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18   … don’t grieve about death …

Isaiah 55   … bread .. life .. word ………. walk as lead in joy …

Ephesians 4:14-16   Not tossed, .. truth & love brings growth in Christ ….

2 Chronicles 2:7-10   … temple built with gold … carving …

Luke 15   …. prodigal ..

Ephesians 1:21   …Christ head of Church…

1 Corinthians 1:11-12   Have in you strength to bear joy … folly ..

Esther 8   King Ahausuerus letter saving Jewish people ….. many people honored become arrogant …

Isaiah 21:1   A King rules by integrity & princes by law ..

Colossians 3:12-17   … lover over all …

Isaiah 35   …. joy on journey to Zion …

Amos 5:4-6   … seek me and live ..

Acts 10:26   Peter: I am man … don’t worship me …

John 7:24   …. judge on what’s right not on appearances …

Proverbs 8:21   … enriching those who love me ..

2 Maccabees 11:4   he took no account at all of power of God ..

Ephesians 3:14-21   .. way cool prayer ..  ..  This, then is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name:  Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth;  until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.  Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine;  glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever, Amen.

Ecclesiasticus 7:1-3   …. don’t sow evil or it will grow …

Matthew 10:32-33   if we declare for Jesus then he will declare for us

Jeremiah 36:16   …. stop your crying & weeping ..

Proverbs 25:15   … soft tongue breaks bones …

Wisdom 1:7   … Spirit of Lord fills whole world & knows …

Daniel 3:32-90   … give glory & eternal praise to him …

Proverbs 7   … avoid fornication …

James 2:1   … no classes ..

Ecclesiasticus 29   … loans

Ecclesiasticus 31:25-42   … wine …

Ecclesiasticus 32   … don’t let position swell head …

Proverbs 10:22   … blessing of yahweh is what brings riches …

1 John 4:12   …. if we love one another then God’s love is complete in us …

Ecclesiastes 7:16-18   … not too virtuous …. not too hard …

Ecclesiastes 9:1   … virtuous still in hand of God…

Hosea 2:22-24   … I will love unloved …

Romans 5:21   … Grace will reign …

James 4:7   … give into God …

James 4:15   … if it is the Lord’s will …

Romans 8:18   … suffering minute compared to reward …

Luke 17:1-3   … … do not lead astray little ones ..

Ecclesiastes 8:16-9:1   … in hand of God ..

Deuteronomy 18:9-   … not soothsayers … yes prophets …

Ecclesiasticus 42:15 … Glory of God & Creation …

Ephesians 3   … wow wonder Spirit Body Christ …

Psalms 119:129-130   Your decrees are so wonderful

my soul cannot but respect them,

As your word unfolds, it gives light,

and the simple understand.

Luke 12:34   Where treasure is , there heart will be..

2 Maccabees 12:16   to the Jewish people

1 Corinthians 12   … one Spirit … one Lord … all kinds of people ..

Wisdom 15:3   to acknowledge you is perfect virtue

Ezekiel 18:21-23   … immediate forgive wicked …

1 Peter 3:6   … not give way to fear or worry …

Proverbs 31:8-9   … speak on behalf of the unwanted …

Colossians 3:7-11   …. give up anger, temper, lies …

1 Peter 1:16   … be holy for I am holy …

Ecclesiasticus 32:19   Never act without reflection ..

Ecclesiasticus 44   … let us pray for illustrious people …

Luke 10:17-20   ….. subdue …

1 Peter 5:5-11   wrap in humility … God favors the humble …

Jeremiah 39:15-18   …. rescued if trust in God …

2 Timothy 3:14-17   Scripture equip for good wrk …

Isaiah 25 … thanksgiving …

Ecclesiasticus 30:21-27

Do not abandon yourself to sorrow,

Do not torment yourself with brooding.

Gladness of Heart is life to a person,

Joy is what gives them length of days.

Beguile your cares, console your heart,

Chase Sorrow far away;

for sorrow has been the ruin of many,

and is no use to anybody.

Jealousy and anger shorten your days,

and worry brings premature old age.

A genial heart makes a good soldier,

one who benefits from their food.

Romans 8:31-39   … nothing between us and the love of God …

Isaiah 44:21   …. remember you are my servant ..

Galatians 3:24   … law guardian till Christ justified faith…

Psalm 1   …. Happy the person …

2 Corinthians 7:6   God comforts the miserable..

Ecclesiasticus 27:30- 28:9  …. resentments & anger are foul …

Obadiah 1:12    … do not gloat

Psalm 20   … may Yahweh grant all your petitions …

Ecclesiasticus 2  … If you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an ordeal….  better to fall into the hands of the Lord than into the hands of people …

Isaiah 50:10   Let anyone who has no light shining in him, lean on the Lord.

Deuteronomy 24:1   Man, Woman, Marriage

Colossians 3:16-17   Let message of Christ, in all it’s richness find a home in you. … sing inspired songs tot God ….  do all in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Psalm 34:19-20   Hardships in plenty beset virtuous

Isaiah 56:7   I will make them joyful in my house of prayer

Hosea 6:6   So what I want is love and knowledge of God

Matthew 11:28-30   … come to me all overburdened …

Psalm 31:24   Be strong, let your heart be bold, all who hope in Yahweh

2 Peter 2   … corrupt bodily desires & no respect for authority …

Romans 14   don’t judge

Micah 7   Not one honest person left

Wisdom 1:3   To acknowledge you is perfect virtue

Romans 1:19-25   Be quick to listen & slow to speak & slow to rouse anger …

1 John 3:7   To live a holy life is to be holy as he is holy

Hebrews 6:10   God would not be so unjust as to forget what you have done

Ecclesiasticus 43:26-32   Thanks to him, all ends well, and all things hold together by means of his word.  We could say much more and still fall short: to put it concisely, “He is all.”  Where shall we find sufficient power to glorify him, since he is the Great One, above all his works, the awe-inspiring Lord, stupendously great, and wonderful in his power?  Exalt the Lord in your praises as high as you may – still he surpasses you.  Exert all your strength when you exalt him, do not grow tired – you will never come to the end.

2 Corinthians 5:20   appeal we make in Christ: be reconciled to God

2 Corinthians 5:18-19   It is all God’s work … entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled ..

Ecclesiasticus 21:2   Flee from sin as from a snake

Romans 5:4-5   sufferings bring perseverance bring hope

Wisdom 7:14   Wisdom is an inexhaustible treasure to people, and those who acquire it, win God’s friendship

Mark 12:20-25   power of faith

Romans 5:2   … by faith and through Jesus …

Ecclesiastes 3:12&22    Happiness in work is it

1 Timothy 4:8   physical exercises are useful enough, but spiritual …

Deuteronomy 2:5   Men in men’s clothes and women in women’s …

Romans 8:6   Life and peace brings concern for spiritual

Hebrews 12:18 …    …. listen to him … ( also in Luke)

1 Corinthians 3:17   If anyone should destroy temple, God will destroy them.  You are that temple

Psalm 26   My trust in Yahweh never wains,,,, innocence..

Ecclesiasticus 32:28   Person with confidence in the Lord will come to no harm

Hosea 14:9   I am like a cypress ever green, all your fruitfulness comes from me

Hebrews 12:1  With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then , should throw off everything that hinders us; especially sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started

Proverbs 10:10   A bold rebuke & a person makes peace

Proverbs 10:28   … hope/expectations …

Ecclesiasticus 6:18   from and early age choose instruction …. cultivate wisdom ….

Ecclesiasticus 31:23   Sleeplessness, biliousness and gripe are what the glutton has to endure.

1 Thessalonians 5:11   encourage & strengthen each other

Matthew 23   ….. Scribes and Pharisees are hypocrites …

Mark 4:8-9   We are to be rich soil ..

2 Timothy 2:22-26  … fasten attention on holiness, faith, love, & peace …

Ezra 8:21-23   There beside the river I proclaimed a fast: we were to humble ourselves before God

1 John 3:22   We need not be afraid in God’s presence …

Matthew 7:12   Always treat everyone as you would like to be treated

Jeremiah 46:27-28   … do not be afraid …

1 Thesalonians 4:3   Know how to use the body that belongs to him

Psalm 40:8 & Hebrews 10   Here I am Lord, I come to do your will

John 14:20   If anyone loves me, they will keep my word, and my father will love them, & we will come to them, & make our home with them

1 Peter 4:7   To pray better, keep a calm and sober mind

1 John 3:18-24   …. do not be afraid…. ask & receive,,, live in God and God in you…

1 Corinthians 3:18-23   … be foolish … you belong to Christ …

Romans 8:32   We may be certain that after such a gift, he will provide us with what he can

2 Samuel 23:3-4   He who rules with Justice is like many sparkles

We have so much that we agree on.

Although we have serious flash-points of disagreement, there are areas of agreement uncapitalized on with parties at large odds with each other.

For those who vigorously debate and fight over the name and ways of our creator, we all agree that there is a creator.  Pope John Paul II wrote an amazing book on this topic entitled, Crossing the Threshold of Hope.  Please read.  We are united in recognizing that creation is created.  This is so far different than the claim that all this happened by chance.  The people who think that these amazing gorgeous at each scale and locale constructs of sunsets, snow crystals, babies, kittens, flowers, celestial arrays, ripples, hands, waterfalls, people, animals, and pets happened to have randomly occurred have never seen a child’s or teen’s room.  Things tend towards disorder and chaos left to there own.  It is through our co operating with our creator, Romans 8:28, that we assist with the ongoing creation of creation which is always being made new each and every day.

For us who are at polar odds with each other over ending the life of one in embryo, we agree that rape and sexual abuse is wrong.  We also agree that those who do bring their children through birth should be encouraged and supported.  We need to work proactively together teaming up to encourage greater respect for women, more stable families, and more healthy families.  We need to convince the media    which is ever increasingly in a free fall of selling baseless, random, depersonalized, meaningless, & dangerous, sex to STOP.  The media needs to realize their responsibility for making rape, aids, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and abortion worse.  Sex is great and good stuff & is God’s sales pitch for having children.

Keeping things simple also leads to more clarity and away from confusion and the MacBeth situation.  Hi hopes and low expectations is a key to happiness.  Keeping our expectations in check for this wonder will help us to keep perspective and participate fully in the ongoing creation of the broad range of beauty & joy available everywhere all the time.

Psalm 28:7   Yahweh is my strength, my shield, my heart puts its trust in him;  I have been helped, my flesh has bloomed again, I thank him with all my heart.

Hebrews 2:18 …. because he has himself been through temptation he is able to help others who are tempted.

1 Peter 5:5 ….. wrap yourselves in humility to be servants to each other ….

Proverbs 15:15   For the sorrowing every day is evil, for the joyous heart it is festival always.

Proverbs 16:21   Those whose heart is wise is proclaimed discerning;  sweetness of speech makes words the more persuasive.

2 Timothy 1:3 ….. Night and Day I thank God ….

Luke 1:37   ….. nothing is impossible to God ….

1 Peter 1:15   …..be holy in all you do, …..

2 Corinthians 1:3   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God ourselves.

2 Chronicles 12:14   He did evil, because he had not set his heart on Yahweh.

Hosea 4:8   …. they are all greedy for their iniquity

Psalm 91 …  not to worry …

Phillipians 1:27-28   Avoid anything in your  everyday lives that would be unworthy of the gospel of Christ …. know that you are unanimous in meeting the attack with firm resistance … united in love in faith for the gospel …. unshaken by enemies ..

Psalm 41   Happy the person who cares for the poor and the weak

Galatians 5:13-16   My brothers, you were called, as you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening for self-indulgence.  Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love you neighbor as yourself.  If you go snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, you had better watch or you will destroy the whole community.  ….. if you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no danger of yielding to self-indulgence ….

Isaiah 10:15   Does the axe claim more credit than the person who wields it, or the saw more strength than the person who handles it?

Hebrews 12:4   In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death.

Wisdom 13:9   ….. if they are capable of acquiring enough knowledge to be able to investigate the world, how have they been so slow to find its Master?

Ezekiel 22:12   … you forget all about me ….

Nahum 1:3   Yahweh is slow to anger but immense in power.

Luke 12:22 …“That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how you are to clothe it…..

1 Corinthians 10:31-33   …  Whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God …. Never do anything offensive ….  be anxious for the advantage of everyone else so they may be saved …

People are beautiful.  I love people watching and marveling at the symphony of God’s creation.  All of creation is so gorgeous at each location and scale.  God is right in being particularly proud of people.  We see the hand with its’ many positions and abilities to feel, hold, touch, heal, and communicate.  And we do all this without an internal combustion motor or batteries, plenty of memory, and under constant recreation.  When we sleep we go to God’s workshop for updating.

Proverbs 22:17-19  Give ear to my words and apply your heart to knowing them;  for it will be a delight to keep them deep within you to have them all ready on your lips.  So that your trust may be in Yahweh….

Hebrews 3:  … Christ master of house …. And we are his house, as long as we cling to our hope with the confidence that we glory in.

Isaiah 30:18  … Yahweh is waiting to be gracious to you ….

Romans 15:7   It can only be to God’s glory, then, for you to treat each other in the same friendly way as Christ treated you.

Proverbs 23:15-16   My child, if your heart is wise, then my own heart is glad, and my inmost self rejoices when from your lips come honest words.

Ecclesiasticus 14:5   If a person is mean to themselves, to whom will they be good?

2 Corinthians 3:2-3   …. you are a letter from Christ, drawn up by us, and written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on the tablets of your living hearts.

2 Corinthians 3: 8  …. then how much greater will be the brightness that surrounds the administering of the Spirit!

Ecclesiasticus 14:11  My child, treat yourself as well as you can afford, and bring worthy offerings to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 9:8   And there is no limit to the blessings which God can send you- The Lord will make sure that you will always have all you need for yourselves in every possible circumstance, and still have something to spare for all sorts of good works.

1 Peter 5:3  …. be an example ….

1 Peter 5:7   unload all your worries on to him, since he is looking after you.

1 Peter 5:10 …. the God of all Grace….. will confirm, strengthen, and support you.

Psalm 55:22   Unload your burden on to Yahweh

and he will support you;

He will never permit

the virtuous to falter.

1 Peter 4:1 ….. be ready to suffer like Christ which breaks the rule of bodily passions and then we are ruled only by the will of God ..

Revelation 3:18   I warn you, buy from me gold that has been tested in the fire … to make you really rich, and white robes to clothe you …

Phillipians 4:19   …God will fulfill all your needs, in Christ Jesus, as lavishily as only God  can.

Isaiah 59:1   … the hand of Yahweh is not too short to save, nor Yahweh’s ear too dull to hear.

Hebrews 3:13   Every day, as long as this ”today“ lasts, keep encouraging one another so that none of you is hardened by the lure of sin ….

Psalm 21:7   Yes, the king puts his trust in Yahweh, by grace of the Most High, he remains unshaken.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9   ….were more of a burden then we could carry, so that we despaired ….. taught us to not rely on ourselves but only on God.

Isaiah 40:28-29   He does not grow tired or weary, his understanding is beyond fathoming.  He gives strength to the wearied, he strengthens the powerless.

Tobit 13:6   If you return to him …. he will return to you..  Consider how well he has treated you; Loudly give him thanks.

Jeremiah 22:13   Doom for the person who founds their palace on anything but integrity, their upstairs rooms on anything but honesty.

Titus 2:7  …. in everything you do make yourself an example of working for good …

Maccabees 1:16  ….submitting to the heathen rule as willing slaves of impiety.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 … happy to stay weak so power of Christ may stay over me …. quite content with my weaknesses, and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and the agonies that I go through for Christ’s sake.  For it is when I am weak that I am strong.

2 Corinthians 13:5 ..  faith test …. acknowledge that Jesus Christ is in you …

Colossians 1:27   … The mystery is Christ among you….

Job 37:19           Tell me what to say to him:

……………………………………………….

Zechariah 8:9   Yahweh Sabaoth says this.  Let you hands be strong, you who hear and now listen to these words from the mouths of the prophets….

John 6:63    The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

James 1:9   It is right for the poor brother to be proud of his high rank ….

Proverbs 6:16   ….six things that Yahweh hates and seven that he abhors …

1 Corinthians 6:12 …. I am not going to let anything dominate me …..

Numbers 27:15-17 …. May Yahweh, God of the Spirits that give life to all living creatures, appoint a leader for this community, to be at their head in all they do, a person who will lead them out and bring them in, ……

Psalm 50:14 …let thanksgiving be your sacrifice to God…

Luke 9:1-3 …. he gave them power over …. and to cure diseases … and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal.

Psalm 106:47   … find our happiness in praising you.

Hebrews 10: …. stir a response in love and good works…..

2 Corinthians 13:5   Examine yourselves to make sure you are in the faith;  test yourselves.  Do you acknowledge that Jesus Christ is really in you?

Judith 9:11(16)   Your strength does not lie in numbers,

nor your might in violent men;

since you are the God of the humble,

the help of the oppressed,

the support of the weak,

the refuge of the forsaken,

the saviour of the desparing.

Psalm 38:21-22   Yahweh, do not desert me,

do not stand aside, my God!

Come quickly to my help,

Lord, my saviour!

Isaiah 17:12-13   Vast hordes thundering,

with thunder like thundering seas,

the roaring of nations roaring

like the roar of mighty waters.

(Nations roaring like the roar of many waters.)

He rebukes them

and far away they flee, driven off

like chaff on the mountains before the wind,

like an eddy of dust before the storm.

2 Peter 1:3-8   By his divine power, he has given us all the things that we need for life and for true devotion, bringing us to know God himself, who has called us by his own glory and goodness.  In making these gifts, he has given us the guarantee of something very great and wonderful to come:  through them you will be able to share the divine nature and to escape corruption in a world that is sunk in vice.  But to attain this, you will have to do your utmost yourselves, adding goodness to the faith that you have, understanding to your goodness, self control to your understanding, patience to your self-control, true devotions to your patience, kindness towards your fellow people to your devotion, and, to this kindness, love.  If you have a generous supply of these, they will not leave you ineffectual or unproductive; they will bring you to a real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Chronicles 6:3   Then the king turned and blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while the whole assembly stood.  He said, ” Blessed be Yahweh…..

2 Chronicles 6:18  Why the heavens and their own heavens cannot contain you!

Ecclesiasticus 10:1-5   The wise magistrate will be strict with his people,

and the government of a prudent man will be well-regulated.

As the magistrate is, so will his officials be,

as the governor is, so will be the inhabitants of his city.

An uneducated king will be the ruin of his people,

a city owes its prosperity to the intelligence of its leading men.

The government of the earth is in the hands of the Lord,

he sets the right man over it at the right time.

A man”s success is in the hands of the Lord,

it is he who invests the lawgiver with honor.

Acts 17:25-28   …who gives everything – including life and breath – to everyone….. From one single stock he not only created the whole human race so that they could occupy the entire earth, but he decreed how long each nation should flourish and what the boundaries of its territory should be.  And he did this so that all nations might seek the deity and, by feeling their way towards him, succeed in finding him.  Yet in fact he is not far from any of us, since it is in him that we live, and move, and exist, as indeed some of your own writers have said:

“We are his children.”

Psalm 36:5-9   Your love, Yahweh, reaches to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the clouds;

your righteousness is like the mountains of God,

your judgements like the mighty deep.

Yahweh, protector of man and beast,

how precious, God, your love!

Hence the children of people

take shelter in the shadow of your wings.

They feast on the bounty of your house,

you give them drink from your river of pleasure;

yes, with you is the fountain of life,

by your light we see the light.

Ecclesiasticus 17:26-28   Come back to the Most High and turn away from iniquity,

and hold in abhorrence all that is foul.

Who will praise the Most High in Sheol,

if the living do not do so by giving glory to him?

2 John 6   …. to live a life of love …

Luke 7:15   …then he said, “Young man, I tell you to get up.  And the dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Everyone was filled with awe and praised God ….

Psalm 71:23   My lips shall sing for joy as I play to you,

and this soul of mine which you have redeemed.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7   You shall love Yahweh you God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.  Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart.  You shall repeat them to your children and say them over to them whether at rest in your house or walking abroad, at you lying down or at your rising;  you shall fasten them …

Ecclesiastes 3:11  …. we cannot comprehend the work of God from beginning to end ..

Ecclesiasticus 18:12-13   Our compassion extends to our neighbors,

but the compassion of the Lord extends to everything that lives;

rebuking, correcting and teaching,

bringing them back as a shepherd …..

Hebrews 4:12   The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double edged sword …

Psalm 68:28-29,32-33    Take command, God, as befits your power,

that power, God, you have wielded on our behalf

from you Temple high above Jerusalem!

Kings will come to you, bringing presents. ……

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth,

play for the Rider of the Heavens, the ancient heavens!    Pause

Listen to him shouting, to his understanding,

and acknowledge the power of God!

Ecclesiasticus 17:7  He put his own light in their hearts

to show them the magnificence of his works.

Phillipians 2:13-16   It is God, who for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you.  Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood, and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life.

Joshua 6:5   …. the whole people must utter a mighty war cry and the town wall will collapse then and there …

1 Corinthians 3:7   Neither the planter nor the waterer matters: only God, who makes things grow.

Psalm 67:2-3   ….For then the earth will acknowledge your ways

and all the nations will know of your power to save.

Let the nations praise you, O God,

let all the nations praise you.

Let all the nations shout and sing for joy …

1 Timothy 1:4     ….. furthering the designs of God …..

2 Chronicles 30:19    May Yahweh in his goodness cover up the fault of anyone who sets his heart to seeking God ….

Isaiah 7:14   The Lord …. will give you a sign.  It is this: the maiden is with child and will soon give birth to a son whom she will call Immanuel …..

1 Samuel 25:29 ….  (you) will be kept close in the satchel of life with Yahweh you God, while as for the lives of your enemies he will fling them away, as from a sling.

1 Thessalonians 2:13    …. you accepted it for what it really is, God’s message and not some human thinking; and it is still a living power among you who believe it.

Job 20:5    … the triumph of the wicked has always been brief, and the sinner’s gladness has never lasted long ….

Psalm 33:10-12   Yahweh thwarts the plans of the nations,

frustrates the intentions of peoples;

but Yahweh’s plans hold good for ever,

the intentions of his heart from age to age.

Happy the nation whose God is Yahweh,

the people he has chosen for his heritage.

1 Timothy 2:1-2   My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for knings and others in authority, ……

1 Corinthians 1:25   For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Ecclesiasticus 39:12-15

Listen to me, devout children, and blossom

like the rose that grows on the bank of a watercourse.

Give off a sweet smell like incense,

flower like the lily, spread your fragrance abroad,

sing a song of praise

blessing the Lord for all his works.

Declare the greatness of his name,

proclaim his praise

with song and with lyre …..

Job 22:27-28   You will pray, and he will hear;

you will have good reason to fulfill you vows.

Whatever you undertake will go well,

and light will shine on your path;

Ecclesiasticus 18:16-17   …. a word is worth more than a gift.

Why surely, a word is better than a good present,

but a generous man is ready with both.

1 Corinthians 8:1   …. it is love that makes the building grow.  A person may imagine they understand something, but still not understand anything in the way that they ought to.  But anyone who loves God is known by God.

Acts 17:27  And he did this so that all nations might seek the deity and, by feeling their way towards him, succeed in finding him.

Tobit 13:3   Declare his praise before the nations.

Psalm 33:10-12   Yahweh thwarts the plans of nations,

frustrates the intentions of peoples;

but Yahweh’s plans hold good for ever,

the intentions of his heart from age to age.

Happy the nation whose God is Yahweh,

the people he has chosen for his heritage.

Isaiah 61:8-11   For I, Yahweh, love justice,

I hate robbery and all that is wrong…..

I exult for joy in Yahweh,

my soul rejoices in my God ……

For as the earth makes fresh things grow,

as a garden makes seeds spring up,

so will the Lord yahweh make both integrity and praise

spring up in the sight of nations.

Mark 3:2   And they were watching Jesus to see if he would cure the man with the withered hand on the sabbath day, hoping for something to use against him.

Matthew 8:12 …the subjects of the kingdom will be turned out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Acts 5:29   … Obedience to God comes before obedience to to men…

Psalm 37:16   The little the virtuous possesses

outweighs all the wealth of the wicked.

Matthew 19:18-19   …. Jesus replied, “You must not kill, you must not commit adultery, you must not steal, you must not bring false witness, Honor your father and mother, and you must love your neighbor as yourself.”

Psalm 37:5-6   Commit your fate to Yahweh,

trust in him and he will act;

making your virtue clear as the light,

your integrity as bright as noon.

Job:8:11-14   Does papyrus flourish, except in marshes?

Without water, can the rushes grow?

Pluck them even at their freshest;

fastest of all plants they wither.

Such is the fate of all who forget God;

so perishes the hope of the godless man.

His trust is only a thread,

his assurance a spider’s web.

Ecclesiasticus 10

Matthew 14

1 Corinthians 10

Jeremiah 8:9   The wise shall be shamed,

caught out, confounded.

Look how they have rejected the word of Yahweh!

So what use is their wisdom to them?

Psalm 34 …. all of it …. faces turned towards him grow brighter …..

2 Timothy 3:12-13   You are well aware, then, that anybody who tries to live in devotion to Christ is certain to be attacked; while these wicked impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.

Psalm 47:7  God is the king of the whole world

Micah 7:7   For my part, I look to Yahweh,

my hope is in the one who will save me;

my God will hear me.

Numbers 31:50  … we bring as an offering for Yahweh the gold …

Romans 2:6 He will repay each one as their works deserve.
Hebrews 10:9,10   Here I am!  I am coming to do your will……. And this will was for us to be made holy by theoffering of his body made once and for all by Jesus Christ.

Tobit 13:2     ….. no one can escape his hand.

Hosea 4: 1-11 …… it is you, priest, that I denounce. …..

Jude 9   Not even the archangel Michael, when he was engaged in argument with the devil about the corpse of Moses, dared to denounce him in the language of abuse; all he said was, “Let the Lord correct you.”

Jude 24  Glory be to him who can keep you from falling and bring you safe to his glorious presence, innocent and happy.