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No CROSS, No CROWN!
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV) ” Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
To all of our WIFI family, Friends, and subscribers, we would personally like to take the time to simply say “Thank You” for being a valued individual of ” World In Focus International Ministries“. I just wanted you all to know that this past 18 month journey I’ve been on with the passing of my Father, and all of the residual drama left behind caused a temporary distraction to my personal and spiritual life, not allowing me to focus on the things of God, and resulting in some of our modalities of our online ministry to be neglected. There were times that we were not able to answer your calls, prayer requests, emails, etc. I make no excuses and want to let you all know that life will throw you some curve balls that you had absolutely nothing to do with or asked for.
The bible only instructed us to honor our PARENTS and love them as instructed in the book of Exodus 20:12, which reads as follow: “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”
Nevertheless, all I went through and is still going through, I do believe that it’s a part of the plan God has for my life!!! This bible didn’t say to honor our parents if they did everything right or wrong. It just instructs us to honor them. That is why I accepted the assignment, dropped everything in my life to help take care of and see after my Father. I did exactly what my father asked me to do from the goodness of my heart. When you love someone, there is nothing too much you could give to them.. You will drop everything, no matter what inconvenience it could cost you. I want to remind someone that in this life, we get one shot, and one shot only! We get one set of biological parents to love, so I have no regrets. The good part is, through it all, I survived, and I’m much stronger in my faith and my walk with God!!
When trying times come in our lives, lean on God’s word that is being released into the atmosphere. I just thank God for various online ministries that imparted into my life when I was so low until all I could get was an online word. I was and still is today, being fed by some of the finest Pastors on this land. When you are in a very dry place, you need others to pray for you, stand with you, and to love on you until your personal and spiritual health has been restored (restoration). Nevertheless, I stood on the word of God, and believed him for the things I did not understand. The guidance that was being deposited into my life was priceless..
Nevertheless, my Father preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ and carried the great message of FAITH and GRACE everywhere he went. I want everyone to know that he fought a good fight, and he kept the faith and he finished his course on December 22, 2013. Although, he is gone, what he deposited spiritually into my spirit can’t be bought.. I’m honored that my Father chose and trusted me enough to be his Power Attorney over his life to make many vital medical decisions when he got to the point where he was unable to do for himself, or make his own medical decisions. He knew that we were on the same spiritual FAITH wave link, and I would stand and believe with him for his healing, and carry out the final wishes he wanted to take place in the final chapter of his life. All five wishes were granted. I even managed to make contact with his son that he had not seen since he was 33-years-old. My brother and I both alike are the same age with him being one month older than I, and he has a different mother. It happened in God’s timing. I remember laying in the hospital, and something told me to check my messages, and low and behold when I did there was a message from my brother’s caretaker saying that she would love for my Dad to see his son. The connection was made, and I gave her the information from a hospital where I was being held against my will.
At this time, I was no longer allowed at bedside with my Dad because there was a big confrontation that broke out between the new attending physician and myself who took it upon himself to verbally change my father’s final five wishes, which my Father chose to exercise his faith and do everything possible to keep him alive until the Lord called him home… See, man wanted to plant in his head to go ahead and be a (DNR) do not resuscitate in the case he stopped breathing as they removed him from the ventilator before my very eyes with security standing around me and an irate nurse who had a problem with me asking this physician: “WHAT PART OF MY DAD’S ADVANCE DIRECTIVES DIDN’T HE UNDERSTAND?” From there, everything went downhill after the nurse jumped in my face and their hospital security forcefully threw me out of the hospital after they let me watch respiratory therapy unhook him from the ventilator and all the machines that he did not need anyways because he was already in the palm of the hands of the Lord. It was just a matter of it being his appointed time. So they said I could not return to the hospital because I disrespected the physician. Not in all of my years in the medical field, had I ever heard of anything so assigning. I was the one being disrespected and my Dad’s written advance directives were not being honored and I was livid. They knew that I would enforce my Dad’s last testaments which is called “Advance Directives” that the patient choose how they want to be treated in their final days and all of their wishes are carried out, and my job as a daughter first, and then his appointed Power of Attorney was to give my DAD what he wanted, and that was to exercise his faith down to his last breath. He just asked to be made comfortable with meds. It was a real nightmare, unheard of that a doctor would step in and try and change someone’s advance directives. It was my Dad’s choice to believe that God was going to heal him. Even after they took him off of the ventilator he lived another 30 days, and long enough to receive one final visit from his son, and even so, my brother was given the opportunity to attend his Father’s funeral. I did not attend the funeral because I just was not strong enough at the time; I was broken!!
Nevertheless, all I went through was worth it, because my Dad was not going to leave this land until what he asked for was fulfilled, and God’s will was done in his life.
I want to encourage someone and let them know that God has the final say over our lives, not man! The bible says we shall live out until our appointed time, and he did that with or without me being at his bedside. After which, I called to the hospital throughout the the night to see how my father was doing, only to be treated nasty by various nurses and staff that answered the phones. The next day, the director of the hospital (Mary Ann Patton) told me the next day that she instructed the staff to hang up in my face, which was wrong on all levels even to treat a dog in that manner that was losing their parent. I was grieving. Then the next day, I received a call from that same director of the hospital who stood at my Father’s bedside , and put him on the phone for me to talk to him, and all I could ask my Dad was: “why didn’t you protect your advance directives or me? His final words: “I DON’T KNOW!” I began to weep uncontrollably, because I did what my Dad had asked me to do before he became unable to care for himself. He signed the notarized document which was witnessed by two other people, and his advance directives should have been honored. I told my Dad, if he ever want to check that (DNR) box, that was his right too, and I would have supported him in anyway he wanted the final chapter of his life to end..
So now, in the next hour, I get a knock upon my door, and it was our local Irvine police, saying they were called by the Hospital in Torrance where my Dad was slowly transitioning, asked them to come out and check on me… #really??? I open the door and said: good afternoon officers, may I help you? Then they began to say how the hospital director was worried about me, but they saw I was at ease because I had heard my Father’s voice, which would be the final time ever that I would hear or see him again. I never had a problem with him dyeing, because my bible tells me that when we get to heaven we all will get a new glorified body, and if we live right down here on this earth, we will see our loved one’s again. That is my Dad’s teachings, straight from the bible which often rolled off the fruit of his lips. Daddy was a real praiser by the way!!!
The police went away for two hours, and then returned to my house again, and said they were just checking on me. I noticed this time, every time I tried to go inside my home, one officer just kept talking to me, and again, I was ok, because I had heard my Dad’s voice and I was so happy that he did not expire that night even after being induced into a comma prior to, which I signed the papers authorizing them to induce him into a comma at certain hours of the day so his body could rest. My Dad was very feeble as they removed him from the ventilator, but I was at ease because I knew God was in control of his life… It was never I, but God working all the time. I am certain that Dr. was so wrong on so many levels, but was so right that “your” services, (meaning me) were no longer needed and said that my Dad was capable of making his own decisions. At this point it was evident that none of our services were needed, he was slowly transitioning. It would have been in their best interest to just leave good enough alone since he was going to die anyways, but just not when they wanted him too. He was very adamant about exercising his faith. His faith in God brought him his last final wish, and that was to see his child.. It happened!!
After the Irvine police tricked me and entertained me for over two hours, there drives up the Torrance Police cop car to my house with Irvine police standing back watching as the officer from Torrance jumps out of his cop car, threw me down on the ground in a short dress and no shoes on and began pouncing on me in front of my child who was 10-year-old at the time. He claimed, I resisted arrest, when all I was doing was trying to get my shoes which were at the door as I was being rushed with excessive force which equates to police brutality that I did not deserve. He never read me my rights or said what I did wrong. Later on I was told that the nurse told a lie, and said the night before, I called the hospital floor and talked to her and said I was going to get her. I never said anything of that nature, and to this day, no phone records were produced by this hospital with me saying such, but the Torrance police drove 50 miles to Irvine, CA on a lie, and hearsay with no proof. All hell broke loose from there after I was arrested for only carrying out my Father’s Advance Directives. Of note, someone cut my car tires with a blade that I took over to the Torrance police department a few days before the main incident, and filed a report with them to pull the surveillance video to see who had vandalize my car at that same hospital. To this date, no surveillance camera video from the valet services were produced to address my complaint, but the nurse who I don’t have a clue what she looked like would get prompt services from that same officer that took my police report and said he would help me find out who vandalized my car at the hospital. He was the same officer who took my report , but brought with him the baddest corrupt cop he could find to beat the living daylights out of me for nothing. Once at the station, the same police officer who came to my home with about 10 more officers dressed in hazmat suits came into my cell, put a bag over my head backwards, and rushed me, and I was already on the ground, which I had been there sitting over 2 hours. In my mind, I was thinking, what chance did I have against 10 police officer and one was videotaping the whole ordeal as that same cop who brutally attacked me in front of the Irvine police at my home, took the lead again and it was all she wrote. I could have been killed. The cop thought he would try and finish me off. What he did not know was I have had to fight the enemy all of my life for no reason at all. The other nine officers backed off, and it was just he and I, and I gave it all I had if I was going to die and I did not care. They did all of that, just to put me in a chair that looked like an electrocuting type chair on wheels, only to wheel me over to the fingerprinting station. Surely, I could have peacefully walked over there without being rushed by 10 officers. Then after which, the ambulance team shows up and they transferred me to Harbor General hospital where my Dad’s ex fiance who stuck by his side every step of the way, and she knew my story, would later on be my nurse at the hospital where I found favor. What were my odds of being taken to a random hospital and be cared for by my Dad’s fiance. She literally fed me, bathed me, and called my oldest son to let him know that I was ok and I was in her care. Then later, I would be transferred back to an Orange County Hospital where I was there for almost 2 1/2 weeks, after I had been assaulted and punched in the face by the light skin african american cop who violated me at my home and the police station. The hospital took pictures of all of my scars, wounds and bruises, which I have the pictures in my possession. Only God can make a person like me look so good after being so brutally abused for no reason at all.
After I got home, I found out that the nurse had the audacity to file a restraining order on me that I could not answer because I was in the hospital, and to top it off, the Torrance police sends me a letter after I was released from the hospital, saying there is a warrant for my arrest. Of note, I did not ask to leave the jail to go to the hospital. They took it upon themselves to let me go, and the doctor released me to home. After which, I was not going to the Torrance police station ever for no peaceful surrender. I later would have to contact an attorney, and I did not stop until I got the answers I needed to be free. They instructed me that I could surrender to any city police station, and I did, and it was about a 30 minute process, posted bail and I was on my way, and have been on my way every since, free! One attorney told me that I was facing 14 years in prison for what I did. What did I do? I cared for my Father. To this date all charges were dropped but I’m not satisfied because no justice was served to the hospital, the wicked doctor or the cop who brutally beat me. I want justice but I could not live out a trial, for what they said. So I took the lil deal and that was 150 hours of community service, and 52 counseling sessions. For what? Should I have been treated like a dog for doing good, and what I was asked to do. I want to sue these organizations so bad, but it was so painful and I could not find a good attorney to help me, and to this date, it puzzles me, why did I have to go through all of this? Never had a prior record, and had never been in trouble with the law ever, and all of a sudden I’m a criminal for carrying out my Father’s final 5 wishes. To this date, I do not know what this nurse looks like or would I be able to identify her even the next day.. The nurse was not my concern or my business. I was only concerned about my Dad and his well being.
So, even when we do a good deed for others, you never know what lessons you may have to learn or what God may want to teach you in the process. I learned “LOVE” on a new level. Lets just say, I got the unexpected, and today, I’m still standing tall with a smile on my face as I blog this inspiration to the world. There is a message above in the scripture: Exodus 20:12, and I did my part. See, I hear God speaking loudly saying to someone today other than myself: NO CROSS, NO CROWN!!!!
There is a cross for all of us, no one is exempt. Most of us think we should always be up and no trials will ever come. Wrong, they will come, but the good thing is knowing how to deal with them when they do. That is why it is so important to build our lives on a solid foundation so when the wind blows, your house may crack, and things may shut down but know it’s still nothing besides what Jesus went through. They made him carry his own cross. They beat him; they talked about him; they nailed him to that old rugged cross so you can I can know that we too can take it, and just like Jesus, after he carried his cross, they pierced him in the side and the precious blood came streaming down, but he never said a mumbling word. Sometimes we just have learn how to be quiet and let Jesus fight our battles. What they did not know is that Jesus had all power in his hands to do exceedingly, and abundantly to come up off of his cross if he wanted too, but he said in John 2:19 “Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” Jesus, he did just what he said he would do from the 6th to the 9th hour and he got up one Sunday morning with all power in his hands.
It took me longer to get back to you all, because after being misused, lied on, talked about, literally beat down , then could not see my Father the last 30 days of his life was painful, but I kept the faith, and I carried my cross. No it did not feel good, but in the end God fixed it all. God is just sitting back waiting on us to believe that he can do anything but fail. He is able to turn your life around and fix everything that seem so impossible. We will encounter situations that will break in our earthly house and vessels, but if we learn to lean on our eternal father, Jesus who is able to do anything but fail. I’m going to say it again: “Things will break”. Just like a good looking car with a perfect outer body, breaks down too, and when it does, you may find yourself stopped in your tracks, distracted and even frustrated. Just relax, it’s a normal reaction. The good part is, there’s an expert mechanic waiting somewhere to fix your internal problems that you had nothing do with it. I can hear someone saying, well I followed the recommended manual that came with the car, and you did everything you were required to do to keep it running right, but it still did not stop it from breaking down. You changed the oil, you took the car in for a major servicing, and sometimes I even gave it a tune up and put new spark plugs in it, just so it could be dependable on the road. No matter what situation you find yourself in, God is still there. I’ve been in church all my life, I love the Lord with all my heart, I have professed Jesus Christ to be center of my life, but I heard God say: I want to give you some fresh oil, a new burning desire to serve and love me even the more.. I tell you, I thought I had a relationship with God before this ordeal… If I didn’t, I promise you, I do now! I’ve never felt so close to God, because he is close to the person that is broken hearted. All he want us to do is surrender everything for him, and let his will be done in our lives. Sometimes he just wants see if we will remain faithful, and still serve and praise his Holy Name when the road gets rough… You can rest assure he will NEVER leave you alone!!!
I want you to know, just like the Lord did it for me these past 18 months, he can do it for you too! I want to encourage someone and let them know that there is nothing to hard for our God to solve. Our God is faithful, and he waits on us until we are ready. He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can ever ask or think.. Stop right here, take a deep breath, and just shout out his precious name: “JESUS!”
Remember this when you’re going through: “NO CROSS, NO CROWN!!” I know someone is wondering why must we bear our cross alone? See, there is a cross for everyone and I know there is a cross for me; however, after you have bared your cross, and you stood the test of time, God has a crown waiting on you and I!!!
Love you all so much!! Please continue to keep me and my family in prayer as we resolve unfinished business left behind from my Father’s estate. God is able to fix that situation too!!!
I believe!!!!
Oh yeah, p.s.: Just wanted to share with you all that the precious Lord Jesus allowed me to see another year.. Yes, “APRIL” is my birthday month, and the Lord allowed me to see another year on April 11.. I tell you, I am so grateful and thankful for my life!!! I’ve been celebrating all month long, with family and friends.. I feel like I should celebrate for the rest of my life, after all the hell I’ve been through.. But I am a realist, and until the end of the month, I’m going out of my way to do great things that would deem sufficient this entire month. I just want the world to know that it is ok to celebrate your life, your accomplishments, and celebrate the things you have overcome!!! I’m out family, and I just wanted to let somebody know that with God, all things are possible if we just believe!!! The most important part is that my FAITH is strong, and the sun is shining again in my life because we serve a God of light!!! “Happy Birthday” is in order!! #life #celebrate
Here is an inspirational song that blessed my soul when I was going through… I hope you listen up and be blessed… #sang #vickie
Vickie Winans-No Cross, No Crown
Jesus is on the mainline, you can tell him what you want!
Mark 11:24 (NIV): Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
One thing I love about Jesus, his line is never busy and you can always call on him. I feel like praising him… Listen up to this wonderful praise song and be blessed!
Here are some helpful scriptures enclosed when you need to get Jesus on the mainline…
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T: 06/09/2014
Cited: Video posted for inspirational purposed and solely owned by: Norman Hutchins..
We Will Trust In The Lord…
Donnie McClurkin – We’ve Come This Far By Faith/I Will Trust In The Lord!
Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
I remember 1999 just like yesterday, as it was a very intense year for many of us. I remember everyone being scared about the Y2K, and entering into the New Millennium. Just like then, over 12 years ago, and here we are with iphones, ipads, face-time, etc.
Most of us did not know what to expect. All I know is that I went to church and got my praise on, went home and everything, including all our computers were just fine.
I said all that reminiscing on that significant day to say this:.. ~ 2014 is going to be just fine!!!
Our advice to all of of our subscribers, family and friends: “Keep your trust in God!” No matter what man says: “Trust God!”
2014 – we are trusting God with our very lives as we’ve always done in the past years with miraculous results.
Trust God, and watch the blessings of the Lord overtake your life in 2014 and always.. Of note, we did not just say above that it was going to be easy trusting, but just know that each trial comes to make us strong! Keep your hands in the master hands and everything in our lives will work out fine!
We are saying good bye to 2013 and praising our way into 2014 “TRUSTING GOD” with all thine heart… We will not lean to our own understanding, because when the road gets rough, we may not always understand, but God knows and understands totally.
This is a surrender to him on this last day of 2013 as we walk into 2014 with a greater mindset than we had in 2013!
Bible Verses about Trusting In The Lord
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 118:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:1-29 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Romans 15:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Psalm 118:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Mark 5:36 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
James 4:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Psalm 117:1-2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 118:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Psalm 40:4-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
Psalm 118:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Psalm 40:4-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Psalm 52:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 40:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Psalm 118:23-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
Psalm 115:1-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
Psalm 40:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
Psalm 40:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
I will trust in the Lord
Psalm 118:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
Psalm 118:15-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”
Psalm 118:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psalm 40:11-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me! For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Mark 9:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Psalm 118:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
Psalm 112:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
Psalm 40:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!” As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
Psalm 40:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
Psalm 40:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in theLord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 118:20-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it. I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Psalm 118:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord. The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Psalm 118:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off! I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me.
Psalm 118:9-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. All nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord I cut them off! They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Psalm 118:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Lord is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
Psalm 118:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”
Psalm 118:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”
Psalm 40:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
Psalm 40:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!” But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
Psalm 40:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.
Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
Genesis 11:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Proverbs 28:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue. A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food. Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Matthew 16:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.
Psalm 62:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T: 12/31/2013
Cited: scriptures are inspired from: open bible: http://www.openbible.info/topics/trust_in_the_lord
Judging Others
Bible Verses about Judging Others..
If we could only learn to love and help each other, instead of judging each other, what a wonderful world this would be?
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Luke 6:37 ESV
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
John 7:24 ESV
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
James 4:11-12 ESV
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Romans 2:1-3 ESV
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. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
James 4:12 ESV
There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 328 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Matthew 7:5 ESV
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Romans 14:1-13 ESV
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. …
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
John 8:7 ESV
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Matthew 7:1 ESV
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Luke 6:31 ESV
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. …
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Proverbs 31:9 ESV
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Galatians 5:14 ESV
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 6:37-42 ESV
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? …
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
John 3:17 ESV
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Romans 14:1 ESV
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
1 Corinthians 2:15 ESV
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Romans 2:3 ESV
Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
Matthew 7:1-6 ESV
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. …
James 1:26 ESV
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
Romans 12:16-19 ESV
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Titus 3:2-7 ESV
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, …
Galatians 6:1 ESV
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Isaiah 11:3 ESV
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
Galatians 6:1-6 ESV
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load. …
Galatians 5:22-6:5 ESV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. …
1 John 3:17 ESV
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
John 3:16-17 ESV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
1 Peter 3:8-12 ESV
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
1 Corinthians 6:1-6 ESV
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …
James 1:19-22 ESV
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …
Matthew 7:12 ESV
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 6:33 ESV
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 ESV
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
Leviticus 19:15 ESV
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
1 Peter 4:8-9 ESV
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
1 Peter 2:1-4 ESV
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
Titus 2:11-15 ESV
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
2 Timothy 2:21-23 ESV
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
Matthew 7:15 ESV
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Romans 12:20-21 ESV
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 John 4:11-12 ESV
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Psalm 15:1-5 ESV
A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
1 John 4:1-3 ESV
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
James 3:17 ESV
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-16 ESV
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. Rejoice always,
Romans 12:9-11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …
2 Timothy 3:5-6 ESV
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
Philippians 2:1-4 ESV
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13 ESV
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
Luke 18:10-14 ESV
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
2 Timothy 3:14-17 ESV
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Colossians 3:12-15 ESV
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
1 John 4:7-10 ESV
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
2 Timothy 1:14 ESV
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, …
Romans 12:13-15 ESV
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Ezekiel 22:2 ESV
“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
James 5:16 ESV
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 1:25 ESV
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
2 Peter 3:18 ESV
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
James 5:19-20 ESV
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
2 Peter 2:9 ESV
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Peter 1:8-10 ESV
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
1 Corinthians 5:1-3 ESV
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
Matthew 9:11 ESV
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
1 Peter 3:13 ESV
Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?
John 13:1-21:25 ESV
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. …
Matthew 12:36-37 ESV
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
1 Corinthians 5:12 ESV
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
John 12:46-48 ESV
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 5:24 ESV
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Isaiah 53:1-6 ESV
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …
Psalm 35:1-28 ESV
Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away! …
Psalm 18:1-50 ESV
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. …
Proverbs 19:1-29 ESV
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. …
John 12:48 ESV
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
James 4:11 ESV
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
