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Jesus said, "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"   God bless you.

Ephesians 4:17-32 (Good News Translation) 17In the Lord's name, then, I warn you: do not continue to live like the heathen, whose thoughts are worthless           18and whose minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life that God gives, for they are completely ignorant and stubborn.           19They have lost all feeling of shame; they give themselves over to vice and do all sorts of indecent things without restraint.           20That was not what you learned about Christ!           21You certainly heard about him, and as his followers you were taught the truth that is in Jesus.           22So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to—the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.           23Your hearts and minds must be made completely new,           24and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy.           25No more lying, then! Each of you mus...

Ephesians 4:1-16 (Good News Translation)  1I urge you, then—I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord: live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.           2Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.           3Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.           4There is one body and one Spirit, just as there is one hope to which God has called you.           5There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;           6there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.           7Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.           8As the scripture says,                           "When he went up to the very heights,             he took many captives with him;             he gave gifts to people."               9Now, what does          "he went...

Ephesians 2:1-22 (Good News Translation) 1In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.           2At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God.           3Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.           4But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,           5that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.           6In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world.           7He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed...

Ephesians 1:1-23 (Good News Translation)           1From Paul, who by God's will is an apostle of Christ Jesus—          To God's people in Ephesus,           who are faithful in their life in union with Christ Jesus:           2May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.           3Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.           4Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him.          Because of his love           5God           had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children—this was his pleasure and purpose.           6Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!           7For by the blood of Christ           we are set free, that is...

2 Corinthians 5:11-6:13 (Good News Translation)  11We know what it means to fear the Lord, and so we try to persuade others. God knows us completely, and I hope that in your hearts you know me as well.           12We are not trying again to recommend ourselves to you; rather, we are trying to give you a good reason to be proud of us, so that you will be able to answer those who boast about people's appearance and not about their character.           13Are we really insane? It is for God's sake. Or are we sane? Then it is for your sake.           14We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.           15He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.           16No longer, then, do we judge anyone by human standards. Even if at one time we judged Christ according to human standards, we no l...

Jesus said, "Any place that does not recieve you or listen to you, as go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them."   God bless you.

2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10 (Good News Translation)  16For this reason we never become discouraged. Even though our physical being is gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is renewed day after day.           17And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.           18For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.           1For we know that when this tent we live in—our body here on earth—is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.           2And now we sigh, so great is our desire that our home which comes from heaven should be put on over us;           3by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.           4While we live in this earthly tent, we groan with a feeling of oppression; it is not that we ...

2 Corinthians 4:1-15 (Good News Translation) 1God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.           2We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.           3For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.           4They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.           5For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.           6The God who said,          "Out of darkness the light shall shine!" is the same God who made his light shine in...

2 Corinthians 1:1-11 (Good News Translation)           1From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and from our brother Timothy—          To the church of God in Corinth, and to all God's people throughout Achaia:           2May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.           3Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!           4He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God.           5Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.           6If we suffer, it is for your help and salvation; if we are helped, then you too are helped and given the strength to endure with patience the same sufferings that we also endure.           7So our hope in you is never shaken; we know that ...

1 Corinthians 15:35-58 (Good News Translation)  35Someone will ask,          "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?"           36You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.           37And what you plant is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up.           38God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.           39And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.           40And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.           41The sun has its own beauty, the moon another beauty, and the stars a different beauty; and even among stars there are different kinds of beauty.   ...

"But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable manner, and not only when I am present with you."   God bless you.

"And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book."   God bless you.

Jesus said, "Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven."   God bless you.

Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness."   God bless you.

"Where then is boasting? it is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith."   God bless you.

"Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted."   God bless you.

"For such men are false prophets, deceiful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."   God bless you.

"And the devil who decived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever."   God bless you.

Jesus said, "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning."   God bless you.