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2 Chronicles Chapter 7: 13-14 (NIV)  “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,…

1 Corinthians Chapter 9: Verses 24-27 (NIV)  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do…

Ecclesiastes Chapter 12: verses 9-10 (NIV) Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true. Colossians Chapter 4: Verse 6 (NIV) Let…

1 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verses 9-14 (NIV-UK)  Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling-block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak…

Ecclesiastes Chapter 5: Verses 1-2 (NIV) Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Do not be quick with your mouth,    do not be hasty in your heart    to utter anything before God.God is…

Ecclesiastes Chapter 3: Verses 11-14 (NIV-UK)  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each…

1 Corinthians Chapter 6:  verse 12 (NIV -UK) “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians Chapter 6: verses 19-20 (NIV- UK) Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy…

1 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verses 12-13 (NIV) What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” I’m still stuck on the same theme this week, as its really striking a chord. These verses speak to…

1 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verses 16-17 (NIV)  Therefore I urge you to imitate me. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church. Job Chapter 1:…

1 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verses 1-2 (NIV) Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 5-7 (NIV)…