Archive (August 2015)

Monday, August 31, 2015

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:7-8 | NIV | sin salvation death

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2 | NIV | blameless obedience life

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.

Psalm 31:24 | NIV | hope encouragement heart

Friday, August 28, 2015

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

Isaiah 40:28 | NIV | creation wisdom understanding

Thursday, August 27, 2015

For, Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.

1 Peter 3:10-11 | NIV | love peace life

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city.

Proverbs 16:32 | NIV | peace patience self-control

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

1 Peter 2:24 | NIV | sin righteousness healing

Monday, August 24, 2015

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27 | NIV | sin blameless widows

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12 | NIV | planning wisdom heart

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Matthew 10:29-31 | NIV | valuable fear Father

Friday, August 21, 2015

“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”

Mark 9:23 | NIV | faith miracles healing

Thursday, August 20, 2015

The one who gets wisdom loves life;
the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.

Proverbs 19:8 | NIV | wisdom life mind

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2 | NIV | love sacrifice Jesus

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:1-2 | NIV | love gentleness neighbor

Monday, August 17, 2015

The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

Proverbs 23:24 | NIV | joy wisdom family

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.

John 13:20 | NIV | gentleness Jesus community

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

Luke 12:15 | NIV | money greed materialism

Friday, August 14, 2015

You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Psalm 16:11 | NIV | joy life nearness

Thursday, August 13, 2015

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 | NIV | sin sacrifice Jesus

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:36 | NIV | speaking judgement

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Proverbs 17:17 | NIV | friendship family relationships

Monday, August 10, 2015

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 | NIV | sin righteousness mediator

Sunday, August 9, 2015

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:1 | NIV | love Father children

Saturday, August 8, 2015

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.

Psalm 24:1 | NIV | God life almighty

Friday, August 7, 2015

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

Mark 8:36 | NIV | greed materialism life

Thursday, August 6, 2015

The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.

Isaiah 40:8 | NIV | reliability God Word of God

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Save me, Lord,
from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.

Psalm 120:2 | NIV | speaking redeemer soul

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.

Ephesians 1:7 | NIV | sin Savior forgiveness

Monday, August 3, 2015

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Matthew 7:13-14 | NIV | eternal life salvation