1 Timothy 6:6 – But godliness with contentment is great gain. “A proud man is never contented; he thinks so highly of himself that small blessings are disdained by him, and under small crosses he is impatient. The humble spirit is the contented spirit; if his cross be light, he reckons it in the inventory…
Proverbs 14:10 – The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The joy of bitterness. You don’t normally think of it that way but without trials we would not seek the joy of Lord. This verse kind of personifies the heart. It gives it chacteristics and feeling. The person…
Isaiah 43:25 – I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Psalms 103:12 – As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 1 Peter 4:8 – And above all things have fervent charity…
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which…
Ephesians 6:4 – And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Provoke – To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage. Discourage – To extinguish the courage of;…
Isaiah 24:4-6 – The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that…
Philippians 4:11 – Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Hebrews 13:5 – Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. If…
Philippians 1:9-11 – And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ,…
Zechariah 2:13 – Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. Amos 5:13 – Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. Psalms 46:10 – Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among…
Isaiah 25:6 – And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Genesis 2:7 – And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the…
1 Corinthians 6:19 – What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Remember that God is your Lord or Owner: and see that you make an absolute resignation of yourselves, and all that you…
2 Corinthians 5:15 – And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. Ephesians 4:14 – That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight…
Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such…
Ephesians 5:15-16 – See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. “Making up for lost time” is a common phrase used when someone starts out on a journey, gets behind schedule and then needs to move faster to arrive at their destination on…