Choosing Joy How joyful are those who fear the Lord—all who follow his ways!You will enjoy the fruit of your labor.How joyful and prosperous you will be!Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine,flourishing within your home.Your children will be like vigorous young olive treesas they sit around your table.That is […]
If anyone can control his tongue, it proves that he has perfect control over himself in every other way. James 3:2, TLB
The Lord despises those who say that bad is good and good is bad. Proverbs 17:15, TLB
…When will you ever learn that “believing” is useless without doing what God wants you to? Faith that does not result in good deeds is not real faith. James 2:20, TLB
But someone may well argue, “You say the way to God is by faith alone, plus nothing; well, I say that good works are important too, for without good works you can’t prove whether you have faith or not; but anyone can see that I have faith by the way […]
God has chosen poor people to be rich in faith, and the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs… James 2:5, TLB
For if a person just listens and doesn’t obey, he is like a man looking at his face in a mirror; as soon as he walks away, he can’t see himself anymore or remember what he looks like. But if anyone keeps looking steadily into God’s law for free men, he will […]