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Scripture… As We Live It #250

Posted by on Mar 3, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 1 comment

This is the 250th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality budgets of local church organizations and missions organizations. (Romans 12:13 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #249

Posted by on Feb 24, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 4 comments

This is the 249th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it — the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe and then who do all the things that Christians are supposed to do. (Romans 3:21-22 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #248

Posted by on Feb 17, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 2 comments

This is the 248th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, as long as we read our Bibles and pray daily and don’t do anything to make God mad at us. (Romans 5:1 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #247

Posted by on Feb 10, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 2 comments

This is the 246th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother instead separate into different groups based on your various beliefs and convictions so that you do not have to deal with people who disagree with you. (Romans 14:13 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #246

Posted by on Feb 3, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 1 comment

This is the 246th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

[Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves…] Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. Therefore, judge everyone who lives in this dishonoring way. (Romans [1:24];2:1 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #245

Posted by on Jan 27, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 4 comments

This is the 245th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope to give us ammunition with which to argue against those who disagree with us. (Acts 15:36 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #244

Posted by on Jan 20, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 1 comment

This is the 244th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are go to new places to proclaim the gospel because, as you know, we are apostles and the work of apostles is only to preach the gospel in places where it has never been preached.” (Acts 15:36 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #243

Posted by on Jan 13, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | Comments Off on Scripture… As We Live It #243

This is the 243rd passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, that your leaders are well-trained and well-educated and filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another you. (Romans 15:14 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #242

Posted by on Jan 6, 2013 in as we live it, scripture | 3 comments

This is the 242nd passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

Likewise, you who are younger not leaders, be subject to the elders church leaders. Clothe yourselves, all of you non-leaders, with humility toward one another your leaders, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble and to leaders.” (1 Peter 5:5 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)

Scripture… As We Live It #241

Posted by on Dec 30, 2012 in as we live it, scripture | Comments Off on Scripture… As We Live It #241

This is the 241st passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.”

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil – except on New Year’s Day when your ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ carries more weight than usual. (Matthew 5:37 re-mix)

(Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.)