Life (2/6)

Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life… James 3:13

Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.
James 3:13 humility wisdom mind
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make your vindication shine like the light,
and the justice of your cause like the noonday.
Psalm 37:5-6 trust righteousness light

To get wisdom is to love oneself;
to keep understanding is to prosper.
Proverbs 19:8 wisdom mind
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.
Matthew 6:34 worrying dependence
For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 16:25 salvation death
Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12 faith love
Do all things without murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world. It is by your holding fast to the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16a holiness Word of God blameless
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24 creation joy
Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39 eternal life suffering
But surely, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
Psalm 54:4 dependence equipment
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1 body death heaven
The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?
I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 reward heart
My child, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments;
for length of days and years of life
and abundant welfare they will give you.
Proverbs 3:1-2 law heart peace
He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 creation understanding dependence
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9 love Jesus world
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12 addiction desires righteousness
For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
Philippians 1:21 Jesus death
Keep straight the path of your feet,
and all your ways will be sure.
Proverbs 4:26 thoughts
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands and call on your name.
Psalm 63:3-4 love worship praise
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12 hope heart sickness
If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25 Spirit following
Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
James 1:12 reward temptation
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 truth Father mediator
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25 food worrying beauty
You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
Matthew 5:14 righteousness evangelism light

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.