I seem to recall a Psalm that says something to the effect that a heart that is kept in expection will become sad.
Can anyone find that?
Suggest Year Texts that you'd like to see
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Gopher
I seem to recall a Psalm that says something to the effect that a heart that is kept in expection will become sad. Can anyone find that?
Proverbs 13:12 -- "Expectation postponed is making the heart sick, but the thing desired is a tree of life when it does come."
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Elsewhere
Thanks Gopher! Gotta love the internet!
Ok, I propose the 2007 Year Text be:
Expectation postponed is making the heart sick -- Proverbs 13:12
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Honesty
Dan 12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to shame and eternal contempt.
Romans 8:9 But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
1 Cor 1:18 For to those who are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is God’s power.
John 5:39-40
You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me. And you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. -
Gopher
How about 2 Timothy 3:1, 7
"In the last days, [people will be] always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth".
Along with that, they could release their new paperback study book "Knowledge that Leads to Eternal Confusion"
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Scully
Here's another one:
"Take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh." ~ Ecclesiastes 12:12
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AlmostAtheist
Not my thread, so I can't declare a winner. But I'd sure like to vote for Else's entry. Absolutely perfect!
Expectation postponed is making the heart sick -- Proverbs 13:12
Dave
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stevenyc
1 John 4: 1 Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.
Gen 19:34 Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight...!
This ones for openglassfire: Job 41:20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
One for the Watchtower History book:
Look, we were identified: 2 Peter 2:1 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among YOU. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves.
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AnnOMaly
Acts 1:7 - "It does not belong to YOU to get knowledge of the times or seasons which the Father has placed in his own jurisdiction."
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Finally-Free
"If your body members you control ... then your wife's not doing her job." 1 Rocco 6:9
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