Encouraging scriptures for the day
by Kosonen 543 Replies latest jw friends
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Kosonen
Real freedom
John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
34 Jesus answered them: “Most truly I say to you, every doer of sin is a slave of sin.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.
Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as to righteousness. 21 What, then, was the fruit that you used to produce at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death. 22 However, now that you were set free from sin and became slaves to God, you are producing your fruit in the way of holiness, and the end is everlasting life.
Hebrew 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tested in all respects as we have, but without sin. 16 Let us, then, approach the throne of undeserved kindness with freeness of speech, so that we may receive mercy and find undeserved kindness to help us at the right time.
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punkofnice
...........and Kossy cracks on regardless of the complete train wreck the thread has become.
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Diogenesister
Easy prompt that was kind of you to offer friendship like that.
Edit: Punky 🤣
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Queequeg
"Even though the god in all these religions is basically the same, each regards the way chosen by the others as reprehensible, and to top it all, religionists actually PRAY for one another! They have scorn for their brothers of the right-hand path because their religions carry different labels, and somehow this animosity must be released. What better way than through "prayer"! What a simperingly polite way of saying: "I hate your guts," is the thinly disguised device known as praying for your enemy! Praying for one's own enemy is nothing more than bargain-basement anger, and of a decidedly shoddy and inferior quality!"
- The Satanic Bible
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vienne
Maybe if we left K to himself, he'd take a nap ... for a month or so.
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Queequeg
But Vienne, this thread is so repellent and fascinating at the same time.
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Duran
is the thinly disguised device known as praying for your enemy!
Should you love and pray for Satan?
1 Peter 5:8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
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Kosonen
Help from God's spirit
John 3:34 For the one whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for He does not give the spirit sparingly.
1 Corinthiens 2:10 For it is to us God has revealed them through his spirit, for the spirit searches into all things, even the deep things of God.
12 Now we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, so that we might know the things that have been kindly given us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the spirit, as we explain spiritual matters with spiritual words.
Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, on the things of the spirit.
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Queequeg
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
- Buddha