Proverb 23

Proverbs 23 (Amplified Bible)

Proverbs 23

 ¹WHEN YOU sit down to eat with a ruler, consider who and what are before you;     ²For you will put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to desire.
    ³Be not desirous of his dainties, for it is deceitful food [offered with questionable motives].
    ⁴Weary not yourself to be rich; cease from your own [human] wisdom.^{(A)
    5}Will you set your eyes upon wealth, when [suddenly] it is gone? For riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
    ⁶Eat not the bread of him who has a hard, grudging, and envious eye, neither desire his dainty foods;
    ⁷For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].
    ⁸The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and your complimentary words will be wasted.
    ⁹Speak not in the ears of a [self-confident] fool, for he will despise the [godly] Wisdom of your words.^{(B)
    10}Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless,^{(C)
    11}For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.
    ¹²Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.
    ¹³Withhold not discipline from the child; for if you strike and punish him with the [reedlike] rod, he will not die.
    ¹⁴You shall whip him with the rod and deliver his life from Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).
    ¹⁵My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;
    ¹⁶Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak right things.
    ¹⁷Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord all the day long.
    ¹⁸For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
    ¹⁹Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way [of the Lord].
    ²⁰Do not associate with winebibbers; be not among them nor among gluttonous eaters of meat,^{(D)
    21}For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
    ²²Hearken to your father, who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
    ²³Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
    ²⁴The father of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) shall greatly rejoice, and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in him.
    ²⁵Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her who bore you rejoice.
    ²⁶My son, give me your heart and let your eyes observe and delight in my ways,
    ²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.
    ²⁸She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
    ²⁹Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness and dimness of eyes?
    ³⁰Those who tarry long at the wine, those who go to seek and try mixed wine.^{(E)
    31}Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the wineglass, when it goes down smoothly.
    ³²At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
    ³³[Under the influence of wine] your eyes will behold strange things [and loose women] and your mind will utter things turned the wrong way [untrue, incorrect, and petulant].
    ³⁴Yes, you will be [as unsteady] as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, and [as open to disaster] as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
    ³⁵You will say, They struck me, but I was not hurt! They beat me [as with a hammer], but I did not feel it! When shall I awake? I will crave and seek more wine again [and escape reality].
   

Cross references:

1. Proverbs 23:4 : Prov 28:20; I Tim 6:9, 10
2. Proverbs 23:9 : Isa 32:6
3. Proverbs 23:10 : Deut 19:14; 27:17; Prov 22:28
4. Proverbs 23:20 : Isa 5:22; Luke 21:34; Rom 13:13; Eph 5:18
5. Proverbs 23:30 : Prov 20:1; Eph 5:18

Psalm 23

psalm 23

Psalm 23 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.

 ¹THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.     ²He makes me lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still and restful waters.^{(A)
    3}He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name's sake.
    ⁴Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.
    ⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with ^[a]oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.
    ⁶Surely or only goodness, mercy, and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place.
   

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 23:5 It is difficult for those living in a temperate climate to appreciate, but it was customary in hot climates to anoint the body with oil to protect it from excessive perspiration. When mixed with perfume, the oil imparted a delightfully refreshing and invigorating sensation. Athletes anointed their bodies as a matter of course before running a race. As the body, therefore, anointed with oil was refreshed, invigorated, and better fitted for action, so the Lord would anoint His "sheep" with the Holy Spirit, Whom oil symbolizes, to fit them to engage more freely in His service and run in the way He directs--in heavenly fellowship with Him.

Cross references:

1. Psalm 23:2 : Rev 7:17

Proverbs 22 (with text - press on more info.)

Proverbs 22

Proverbs 22 (Amplified Bible)

Proverbs 22

 ¹A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.     ²The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all.^{(A)
    3}A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering].
    ⁴The reward of humility and the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
    ⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them.
    ⁶Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.^{(B)
    7}The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
    ⁸He who sows iniquity will reap calamity and futility, and the rod of his wrath [with which he smites others] will fail.
    ⁹He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.^{(C)
    10}Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out; yes, strife and abuse will cease.
    ¹¹He who loves purity and the pure in heart and who is gracious in speech--because of the grace of his lips will he have the king for his friend.
    ¹²The eyes of the Lord keep guard over knowledge and him who has it, but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
    ¹³The sluggard says, There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!
    ¹⁴The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit [for ensnaring wild animals]; he with whom the Lord is indignant and who is abhorrent to Him will fall into it.
    ¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
    ¹⁶He who oppresses the poor to get gain for himself and he who gives to the rich--both will surely come to want.
    ¹⁷Listen (consent and submit) to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
    ¹⁸For it will be pleasant if you keep them in your mind [believing them]; your lips will be accustomed to [confessing] them.
    ¹⁹So that your trust (belief, reliance, support, and confidence) may be in the Lord, I have made known these things to you today, even to you.
    ²⁰Have I not written to you [long ago] excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
    ²¹To make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?^{(D)
    22}Rob not the poor [being tempted by their helplessness], neither oppress the afflicted at the gate [where the city court is held],^{(E)
    23}For the Lord will plead their cause and deprive of life those who deprive [the poor or afflicted].^{(F)
    24}Make no friendships with a man given to anger, and with a wrathful man do not associate,
    ²⁵Lest you learn his ways and get yourself into a snare.
    ²⁶Be not one of those who strike hands and pledge themselves, or of those who become security for another's debts.
    ²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay, why should he take your bed from under you?
    ²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set up.
    ²⁹Do you see a man diligent and skillful in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
   

Cross references:

1. Proverbs 22:2 : Job 31:15; Prov 14:31
2. Proverbs 22:6 : Eph 6:4; II Tim 3:15
3. Proverbs 22:9 : II Cor 9:6-10
4. Proverbs 22:21 : Luke 1:3, 4
5. Proverbs 22:22 : Exod 23:6; Job 31:16, 21
6. Proverbs 22:23 : Zech 7:10; Mal 3:5

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Psalm 16

Psalm 16 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 16

A Poem of David; [probably] intended to record memorable thoughts.

 ¹KEEP and protect me, O God, for in You I have found refuge, and in You do I put my trust and hide myself.     ²I say to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good beside or beyond You.
    ³As for the godly (the saints) who are in the land, they are the excellent, the noble, and the glorious, in whom is all my delight.
    ⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied who choose another god; their drink offerings of blood will I not offer or take their names upon my lips.
    ⁵The Lord is my chosen and assigned portion, my cup; You hold and maintain my lot.
    ⁶The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good heritage.
    ⁷I will bless the Lord, Who has given me counsel; yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
    ⁸I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
    ⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices; my body too shall rest and confidently dwell in safety,
    ¹⁰For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the place of the dead), neither will You suffer Your holy one [Holy One] to see corruption.^{(A)
    11}You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.^(B)
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 16:10 : Acts 13:35
2. Psalm 16:11 : Acts 2:25-28, 31

Proverbs 21 (with text - press on more info.)

Proverb 21

Proverbs 21 (Amplified Bible)

Proverbs 21

 ¹THE KING'S heart is in the hand of the Lord, as are the watercourses; He turns it whichever way He wills.     ²Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts.^{(A)
    3}To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.^{(B)
    4}Haughtiness of eyes and a proud heart, even the tillage of the wicked or the lamp [of joy] to them [whatever it may be], are sin [in the eyes of God].
    ⁵The thoughts of the [steadily] diligent tend only to plenteousness, but everyone who is impatient and hasty hastens only to want.
    ⁶Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death.
    ⁷The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, because they refuse to do justice.
    ⁸The way of the guilty is exceedingly crooked, but as for the pure, his work is right and his conduct is straight.
    ⁹It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop [on the flat oriental roof, exposed to all kinds of weather] than in a house shared with a nagging, quarrelsome, and faultfinding woman.
    ¹⁰The soul or life of the wicked craves and seeks evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.^{(C)
    11}When the scoffer is punished, the fool gets a lesson in being wise; but men of [godly] Wisdom and good sense learn by being instructed.
    ¹²The [uncompromisingly] righteous man considers well the house of the wicked--how the wicked are cast down to ruin.
    ¹³Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor will cry out himself and not be heard.^{(D)
    14}A gift in secret pacifies and turns away anger, and a bribe in the lap, strong wrath.
    ¹⁵When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, in right standing with God), but to the evildoers it is dismay, calamity, and ruin.
    ¹⁶A man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the spirits (of the dead).
    ¹⁷He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
    ¹⁸The wicked become a ransom for the [uncompromisingly] righteous, and the treacherous for the upright [because the wicked themselves fall into the traps and pits they have dug for the good].
    ¹⁹It is better to dwell in a desert land than with a contentious woman and with vexation.
    ²⁰There are precious treasures and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a self-confident and foolish man swallows it up and wastes it.
    ²¹He who earnestly seeks after and craves righteousness, mercy, and loving-kindness will find life in addition to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) and honor.^{(E)
    22}A wise man scales the city walls of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
    ²³He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from troubles.^{(F)
    24}The proud and haughty man--Scoffer is his name--deals and acts with overbearing pride.
    ²⁵The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
    ²⁶He covets greedily all the day long, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous gives and does not withhold.^{(G)
    27}The sacrifice of the wicked is exceedingly disgusting and abhorrent [to the Lord]--how much more when he brings it with evil intention?
    ²⁸A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears attentively will endure and go unchallenged.
    ²⁹A wicked man puts on the bold, unfeeling face [of guilt], but as for the upright, he considers, directs, and establishes his way [with the confidence of integrity].
    ³⁰There is no [human] wisdom or understanding or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord.
    ³¹The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord.
   

Cross references:

1. Proverbs 21:2 : Prov 24:12; Luke 16:15
2. Proverbs 21:3 : I Sam 15:22; Prov 15:8; Isa 1:11; Hos 6:6; Mic 6:7, 8
3. Proverbs 21:10 : James 2:16
4. Proverbs 21:13 : Matt 18:30-34; James 2:13
5. Proverbs 21:21 : Prov 15:9; Matt 5:6
6. Proverbs 21:23 : Prov 12:13; 13:3; 18:21; James 3:2
7. Proverbs 21:26 : II Cor 9:6-10

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Proverbs 20 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalm 128

Psalm 128 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 128

A Song of Ascents.

 ^1[a]BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is everyone who fears, reveres, and worships the Lord, who walks in His ways and lives according to His commandments.^{(A)     2}For you shall eat [the fruit] of the labor of your hands; happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
    ³Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house; your children shall be like olive plants round about your table.
    ⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord.
    ⁵May the Lord bless you out of Zion [His sanctuary], and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;
    ⁶Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel!
   

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 128:1 See Psalm 120 title footnote.

Cross references:

1. Psalm 128:1 : Ps 1:1, 2

Good Morning Friends today is Sunday 12.19.2010

My Dear friends,

It is impressed on me this morning that it is so important that we seek God.

He is all around us:

• He is in the new born baby's cry.
  
• He is in the Morning Sun.
  
• He is in the afternoon Rest.
  
• He is even in the child that is lost in the sin of this current world.
  

Oh how he loves us.

He loves us so much.

More love than we can understand.

He is reaching out his hand to you.

All you need to do is say is YES.

Yes, I accept your hand of peace and love.

Please read John 3:16 and then book of Romans. This will make things even clearer.

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John 3:16 (with lyrics)

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John 3

John 3 (Amplified Bible)

John 3

 ¹NOW THERE was a certain man among the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler (a leader, an authority) among the Jews,     ²Who came to Jesus at night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know and are certain that You have come from God [as] a Teacher; for no one can do these signs (these wonderworks, these miracles--and produce the proofs) that You do unless God is with him.
    ³Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God.
    ⁴Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb again and be born?
    ⁵Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [^[a]even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God.^{(A)
    6}What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
    ⁷Marvel not [do not be surprised, astonished] at My telling you, You must all be born anew (from above).
    ⁸The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
    ⁹Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible?
    ¹⁰Jesus replied, Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet do not know nor understand these things? [Are they strange to you?]
    ¹¹I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we know [we know absolutely what we are talking about]; we have actually seen what we are testifying to [we were eyewitnesses of it]. And still you do not receive our testimony [you reject and refuse our evidence--that of Myself and of all those who are born of the Spirit].
    ¹²If I have told you of things that happen right here on the earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe (trust Me, adhere to Me, rely on Me) if I tell you of heavenly things?
    ¹³And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there is One Who has come down from heaven--the Son of Man [Himself], ^[b]Who is (dwells, has His home) in heaven.
    ¹⁴And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must [so it is necessary that] the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross],^{(B)
    15}In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may ^[c]not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!
    ¹⁶For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (^[d]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
    ¹⁷For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
    ¹⁸He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.]
    ¹⁹The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil.^{(C)
    20}For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.
    ²¹But he who practices truth [who does what is right] comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are--wrought with God [divinely prompted, done with God's help, in dependence upon Him].
    ²²After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the land (the countryside) of Judea, where He remained with them, and baptized.
    ²³But John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, for there was an abundance of water there, and the people kept coming and being baptized.
    ²⁴For John had not yet been thrown into prison.
    ²⁵Therefore there arose a controversy between some of John's disciples and a Jew in regard to purification.
    ²⁶So they came to John and reported to him, Rabbi, the Man Who was with you on the other side of the Jordan [^[e]at the Jordan crossing]--and to Whom you yourself have borne testimony--notice, here He is baptizing too, and everybody is flocking to Him!
    ²⁷John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can ^[f]take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.]
    ²⁸You yourselves are my witnesses [you personally bear me out] that I stated, I am not the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), but I have [only] been sent before Him [in advance of Him, to be His appointed forerunner, His messenger, His announcer].^{(D)
    29}He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the groomsman who stands by and listens to him rejoices greatly and heartily on account of the bridegroom's voice. This then is my pleasure and joy, and it is now complete. [S. of Sol. 5:1.]
    ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so.]^{(E)
    31}He Who comes from above (heaven) is [far] above all [others]; he who comes from the earth belongs to the earth, and talks the language of earth [his words are from an earthly standpoint]. He Who comes from heaven is [far] above all others [far superior to all others in prominence and in excellence].
    ³²It is to what He has [actually] seen and heard that He bears testimony, and yet no one accepts His testimony [no one receives His evidence as true].
    ³³Whoever receives His testimony has set his seal of approval to this: God is true. [That man has definitely certified, acknowledged, declared once and for all, and is himself assured that it is divine truth that God cannot lie].
    ³⁴For since He Whom God has sent speaks the words of God [proclaims God's own message], God does not give Him His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but boundless is the gift God makes of His Spirit!^{(F)
    35}The Father loves the Son and has given (entrusted, committed) everything into His hand.^{(G)
    36}And he who believes in (has faith in, clings to, relies on) the Son has (now possesses) eternal life. But whoever disobeys (is unbelieving toward, refuses to trust in, disregards, is not subject to) the Son will never see (experience) life, but [instead] the wrath of God abides on him. [God's displeasure remains on him; His indignation hangs over him continually.]^(H)
   

Footnotes:

1. John 3:5 The Greek "kai" ("and") may be rendered "even."
2. John 3:13 Some manuscripts add this phrase.
3. John 3:15 Some manuscripts add this phrase.
4. John 3:16 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary.
5. John 3:26 George M. Lamsa, The New Testament.
6. John 3:27 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

Cross references:

1. John 3:5 : Ezek 36:25-27
2. John 3:14 : Num 21:9
3. John 3:19 : Isa 5:20
4. John 3:28 : Mal 3:1
5. John 3:30 : Isa 9:7
6. John 3:34 : Deut 18:18
7. John 3:35 : Dan 7:14
8. John 3:36 : Hab 2:4

Proverbs 18 (with text - press on more info.)

psalms 110

Psalm 110 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.

 ¹THE LORD (God) says to my Lord (the Messiah), Sit at My right hand, until I make Your adversaries Your footstool.^{(A)     2}The Lord will send forth from Zion the scepter of Your strength; rule, then, in the midst of Your foes.^{(B)
    3}Your people will offer themselves willingly in the day of Your power, in the beauty of holiness and in holy array out of the womb of the morning; to You [will spring forth] Your young men, who are as the dew.
    ⁴The Lord has sworn and will not revoke or change it: You are a priest forever, after the manner and order of Melchizedek.^{(C)
    5}The Lord at Your right hand will shatter kings in the day of His indignation.
    ⁶He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] upon the nations; He will fill the valleys with the dead bodies, He will crush the [chief] heads over lands many and far extended.^{(D)
    7}He will drink of the brook by the way; therefore will He lift up His head [triumphantly].
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 110:1 : Matt 26:64; Acts 2:34; I Cor 15:25; Col 3:1; Heb 12:2
2. Psalm 110:2 : Rom 11:26, 27
3. Psalm 110:4 : Heb 5:10; 7:11, 15, 21
4. Psalm 110:6 : Ezek 38:21, 22; 39:11, 12

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PSALM 110

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YOU RAISE ME UP

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I Love You Lord - Maranatha

Proverbs 17 (with text - press on more info.)

Psalms 116

Psalm 116 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 116

 ¹I LOVE the Lord, because He has heard [and now hears] my voice and my supplications.     ²Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.
    ³The cords and sorrows of death were around me, and the terrors of Sheol (the place of the dead) had laid hold of me; I suffered anguish and grief (trouble and sorrow).
    ⁴Then called I upon the name of the Lord: O Lord, I beseech You, save my life and deliver me!
    ⁵Gracious is the Lord, and [rigidly] righteous; yes, our God is merciful.
    ⁶The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He helped and saved me.
    ⁷Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.^{(A)
    8}For You have delivered my life from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling and falling.
    ⁹I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
    ¹⁰I believed (trusted in, relied on, and clung to my God), and therefore have I spoken [even when I said], I am greatly afflicted.^{(B)
    11}I said in my haste, All men are deceitful and liars.
    ¹²What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits toward me? [How can I repay Him for all His bountiful dealings?]
    ¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation and deliverance and call on the name of the Lord.
    ¹⁴I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all His people.
    ¹⁵Precious (important and no light matter) in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints (His loving ones).
    ¹⁶O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds.
    ¹⁷I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call on the name of the Lord.
    ¹⁸I will pay my vows to the Lord, yes, in the presence of all His people,
    ¹⁹In the courts of the Lord's house--in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 116:7 : Matt 11:29
2. Psalm 116:10 : II Cor 4:13

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I have a frend that I am woried about. Do you have a freind like that?
Lets Pray together for our friends.

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Psalm 111

Psalm 111 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 111

 ¹PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) I will praise and give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart in the council of the upright and in the congregation.     ²The works of the Lord are great, sought out by all those who have delight in them.
    ³His work is honorable and glorious, and His righteousness endures forever.
    ⁴He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and full of loving compassion.
    ⁵He has given food and provision to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever and imprint it [on His mind].^{(A)
    6}He has declared and shown to His people the power of His works in giving them the heritage of the nations [of Canaan].
    ⁷The works of His hands are [absolute] truth and justice [faithful and right]; and all His decrees and precepts are sure (fixed, established, and trustworthy).
    ⁸They stand fast and are established forever and ever and are done in [absolute] truth and uprightness.
    ⁹He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant to be forever; holy is His name, inspiring awe, reverence, and godly fear.
    ¹⁰The reverent fear and worship of the Lord is the beginning of ^[a]Wisdom and skill [the preceding and the first essential, the prerequisite and the alphabet]; a good understanding, wisdom, and meaning have all those who do [the will of the Lord]. Their praise of Him endures forever. [Job. 28:28; Prov. 1:7; Matt. 22:37, 38; Rev. 14:7.]
   

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 111:10 See footnote on Job 28:12.

Cross references:

1. Psalm 111:5 : Deut 10:12; Ps 96:9

Proverbs 16 (with text - press on more info.)

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Proverbs 15 (with text - press on more info.)

Romans 3

Romans 3 (Amplified Bible)

Romans 3

 ¹THEN WHAT advantage remains to the Jew? [How is he favored?] Or what is the value or benefit of circumcision?     ²Much in every way. To begin with, to the Jews were entrusted the oracles (the brief communications, the intentions, the utterances) of God.^{(A)
    3}What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and His fidelity [to His Word]?
    ⁴By no means! Let God be found true though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written, That You may be justified and shown to be upright in what You say, and prevail when You are judged [by sinful men].^{(B)
    5}But if our unrighteousness thus establishes and exhibits the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust and wrong to inflict His wrath upon us [Jews]? I speak in a [purely] human way.
    ⁶By no means! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?
    ⁷But [you say] if through my falsehood God's integrity is magnified and advertised and abounds to His glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
    ⁸And why should we not do evil that good may come?--as some slanderously charge us with teaching. Such [false teaching] is justly condemned by them.
    ⁹Well then, are we [Jews] superior and better off than they? No, not at all. We have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles), are under sin [held down by and subject to its power and control].
    ¹⁰As it is written, None is righteous, just and truthful and upright and conscientious, no, not one.^{(C)
    11}No one understands [no one intelligently discerns or comprehends]; no one seeks out God.^{(D)
    12}All have turned aside; together they have gone wrong and have become unprofitable and worthless; no one does right, not even one!
    ¹³Their throat is a yawning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (to mislead and to deal treacherously). The venom of asps is beneath their lips.^{(E)
    14}Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.^{(F)
    15}Their feet are swift to shed blood.
    ¹⁶Destruction [as it dashes them to pieces] and misery mark their ways.
    ¹⁷And they have no experience of the way of peace [they know nothing about peace, for a peaceful way they do not even recognize].^{(G)
    18}There is no [reverential] fear of God before their eyes.^{(H)
    19}Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the murmurs and excuses of] every mouth may be hushed and all the world may be held accountable to God.
    ²⁰For no person will be justified (made righteous, acquitted, and judged acceptable) in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For [the real function of] the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin [^[a]not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character].
    ²¹But now the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets,
    ²²Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe. For there is no distinction,
    ²³Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory ^[b]which God bestows and receives.
    ²⁴[All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus,
    ²⁵Whom God put forward [^[c]before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.
    ²⁶It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (^[d]in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has [true] faith in Jesus.
    ²⁷Then what becomes of [our] pride and [our] boasting? It is excluded (banished, ruled out entirely). On what principle? [On the principle] of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith.
    ²⁸For we hold that a man is justified and made upright by faith independent of and distinctly apart from good deeds (works of the Law). [The observance of the Law has nothing to do with justification.]
    ²⁹Or is God merely [the God] of Jews? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
    ³⁰Since it is one and the same God Who will justify the circumcised by faith [^[e]which germinated from Abraham] and the uncircumcised through their [newly acquired] faith. [For it is the same trusting faith in both cases, a firmly relying faith in Jesus Christ].
    ³¹Do we then by [this] faith make the Law of no effect, overthrow it or make it a dead letter? Certainly not! On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the Law.
   

Footnotes:

1. Romans 3:20 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
2. Romans 3:23 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
3. Romans 3:25 Johann Bengel, Gnomon Novi Testamenti.
4. Romans 3:26 Literal translation.
5. Romans 3:30 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

Oak Ridge Boys Have A Little Talk With Jesus

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Attention: All Grandfather’s, Fathers, Husbands and all Men.

We are called by God to be the priest and covering for our families.

Let us look and see if we are doing the job set before us.

If you’re not too scared ask your family this important question.

Am I the priest of our Home?

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Psalm 113

Psalm 113 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 113

 ¹PRAISE THE Lord! (Hallelujah!) Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!     ²Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever
    ³From the rising of the sun to the going down of it and from east to west, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
    ⁴The Lord is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens!
    ⁵Who is like the Lord our God, Who has His seat on high,
    ⁶Who humbles Himself to regard the heavens and the earth!^{(A)
    7}[The Lord] raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap and the dung hill,
    ⁸That He may seat them with princes, even with the princes of His people.
    ⁹He makes the barren woman to be a homemaker and a joyful mother of [spiritual] children. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 113:6 : Ps 138:6; Isa 57:15

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Psalm 118 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 118

 ¹O GIVE thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!     ²Let Israel now say that His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.
    ³Let the house of Aaron [the priesthood] now say that His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.
    ⁴Let those now who reverently and worshipfully fear the Lord say that His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.
    ⁵Out of my distress I called upon the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free and in a large place.
    ⁶The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?^{(A)
    7}The Lord is on my side and takes my part, He is among those who help me; therefore shall I see my desire established upon those who hate me.
    ⁸It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
    ⁹It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
    ¹⁰All nations (the surrounding tribes) compassed me about, but in the name of the Lord I will cut them off!
    ¹¹They compassed me about, yes, they surrounded me on every side; but in the name of the Lord I will cut them off!
    ¹²They swarmed about me like bees, they blaze up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I will cut them off!^{(B)
    13}You [my adversary] thrust sorely at me that I might fall, but the Lord helped me.
    ¹⁴The Lord is my Strength and Song; and He has become my Salvation.
    ¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents and private dwellings of the [uncompromisingly] righteous: the right hand of the Lord does valiantly and achieves strength!
    ¹⁶The right hand of the Lord is exalted; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly and achieves strength!
    ¹⁷I shall not die but live, and shall declare the works and recount the illustrious acts of the Lord.
    ¹⁸The Lord has chastened me sorely, but He has not given me over to death.^{(C)
    19}Open to me the [temple] gates of righteousness; I will enter through them, and I will confess and praise the Lord.
    ²⁰This is the gate of the Lord; the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall enter through it.^{(D)
    21}I will confess, praise, and give thanks to You, for You have heard and answered me; and You have become my Salvation and Deliverer.
    ²²The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
    ²³This is from the Lord and is His doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.^{(E)
    24}This is the day which the Lord has brought about; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
    ²⁵Save now, we beseech You, O Lord; send now prosperity, O Lord, we beseech You, and give to us success!
    ²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; we bless you from the house of the Lord [you who come into His sanctuary under His guardianship].^{(F)
    27}The Lord is God, Who has shown and given us light [He has illuminated us with grace, freedom, and joy]. Decorate the festival with leafy boughs and bind the sacrifices to be offered with thick cords [all over the priest's court, right up] to the horns of the altar.
    ²⁸You are my God, and I will confess, praise, and give thanks to You; You are my God, I will extol You.
    ²⁹O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.
   

Cross references:

1. Psalm 118:6 : Heb 13:6
2. Psalm 118:12 : Deut 1:44
3. Psalm 118:18 : II Cor 6:9
4. Psalm 118:20 : Ps 24:7
5. Psalm 118:23 : Matt 21:42; Acts 4:11; I Pet 2:7
6. Psalm 118:26 : Mark 11:9, 10

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