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For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for… Psalm 30:5

For his anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
but joy comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5 love patience sadness
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4 clothing food

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Romans 11:33 God wisdom understanding
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.
Exodus 20:17 greed materialism law
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 faith love prophecy
Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
1 Corinthians 10:24 selfishness love neighbor
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Ephesians 1:7 sin Savior forgiveness
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
James 1:18 creation truth life
I wait for Yahweh.
My soul waits.
I hope in his word.
Psalm 130:5 hope Word of God soul
In my distress I called on Yahweh,
and cried to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalm 18:6 speaking prayer listening
The Rock: his work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:4 holiness righteousness reliability
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
his righteousness to children’s children,
to those who keep his covenant,
to those who remember to obey his precepts.
Psalm 103:17-18 reliability law family
Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!
Extol him who rides on the clouds:
to Yah, his name!
Rejoice before him!
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:4-5 holiness safety worship
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13 love sacrifice friendship
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:4 righteousness life reliability
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10 Savior salvation reconciliation
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Ephesians 6:10 God strength seeking
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39 eternal life suffering life
Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
Romans 15:2 selfishness encouragement neighbor
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 28:9 prayer obedience listening
Or can one walk on hot coals,
and his feet not be scorched?
Proverbs 6:28 temptation desires
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
All that is within me, praise his holy name!
Psalm 103:1 holiness worship soul
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:24 sin righteousness healing
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.
Psalm 128:1 obedience awe following
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Proverbs 18:11 money materialism