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My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. Proverbs 23:15

My child, if your heart is wise,
my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 23:15 wisdom heart joy
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Romans 14:8 death life

Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
Matthew 19:21 blameless giving materialism
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:17 faith evangelism listening
And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8 sin dependence desires
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:12 law judgment salvation
I, I am he who comforts you;
why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die,
a human being who fades like grass?
Isaiah 51:12 comforter fear encouragement
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:24 listening evangelism Jesus
He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Mark 7:18-19 food body heart
Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
Matthew 26:27-28 wine blood covenant
Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
Psalm 32:5 confession sin forgiveness
How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
Matthew 12:12 sabbath valuable
Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5 marriage devil self-control
Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16 sin Spirit desires
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 creation God life
For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 salvation death heaven
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
Luke 24:50-51 Jesus blessing heaven
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7 conversion widows orphans
Now therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine.
Exodus 19:5 obedience covenant valuable
Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Luke 22:19 bread body gratitude
So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.
Acts 2:41 faith baptism Word of God
If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:3-4 obedience law blessing
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing,
“To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might
forever and ever!”
Revelation 5:13 creation worship gratitude
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:19-20 Jesus kingdom prophecy
If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you and I will curse your blessings; indeed I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
Malachi 2:2 obedience blessing listening