Encouraging scriptures for the day

by Kosonen 543 Replies latest jw friends

• 

  Kosonen

  Purification

  2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, since we have these promises, beloved ones, let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  Ephesians 5:12 For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

  Ephesians 5:25 … Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it, 26 in order that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word, 27 so that he might present the congregation to himself in its splendor, without a spot or a wrinkle or any of such things, but holy and without blemish.
• 

  vienne

  Even the Satan knows scripture:

  Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

  “‘He will command his angels concerning you,
  and they will lift you up in their hands,
  so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"
• 

  Kosonen

  Vienne, yes you are right and he tries to pervert the true meaning of the holy scriptures.
• 

  Queequeg

  The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

  - Leonardo da Vinci
  
  
• 

  vienne

  You would know better than most.
• 

  Duran

  17 “‘If a man has sexual relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother, and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people. He has exposed his sister to shame. He should answer for his error.

  12 And besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
• 

  Kosonen

  Hi Duran,

  Romans 7:7 Really, I would not have come to know sin had it not been for the Law. For example, I would not have known covetousness if the Law had not said: “You must not covet.”
• 

  Kosonen

  Is it not amazing how happy spiritually apostle Paul was when he wrote the letter to Ephesians?

  Ephesians 1:3 Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in union with Christ,

  Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 made us alive together with the Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses—by undeserved kindness you have been saved.

  Ephesians 3:16 I pray that he may grant you through the abundance of his glory to be made mighty in the man you are inside, with power through his spirit, 20 Now to the one who can, according to his power that is operating in us, do more than superabundantly beyond all the things we ask or conceive,

  Ephesians 5:20 always giving thanks to our God and Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  How can we come and remain in such a mental and emotional state? That would be nice, would it not?
• 

  Queequeg

  "He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced."

  - Douglas Adams
  
  
• 

  Kosonen

  Abraham’s excellent example of faith, obedience and wisdom

  Genesis 22:1 Now after this the true God put Abraham to the test, and he said to him: “Abraham!” to which he replied: “Here I am!” 2 Then he said: “Take, please, your son, your only son whom you so love, Isaac, and travel to the land of Mo·riʹah and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will designate to you.”

  Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, as good as offered up Isaac—the man who had gladly received the promises attempted to offer up his only-begotten son— 18 although it had been said to him: “What will be called your offspring will be through Isaac.” 19 But he reasoned that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, and he did receive him from there in an illustrative way.

  Romans 4:21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to do. 22 Therefore, “it was counted to him as righteousness.”