But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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Matthew 5:44
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.
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Proverbs 24:10
Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
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Ephesians 6:13-18
If you disregard this advice, you’re not offending your neighbors; you’re rejecting God, who is making you a gift of his Holy Spirit
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1 Thessalonians 4:8 MSG
There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
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Proverbs 14:12
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
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Proverbs 11:2
Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.
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Proverbs 13:20 MSG
Better a poor man who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
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Proverbs 19:1
If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one officials protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own site.
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Romans 12:16
Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place.
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Proverbs 16:3 MSG
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding,
In all your ways submit to him,
And he will make your paths straight.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
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1 Peter 2:15
Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.
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1 Corinthians 1:28 MSG
But they set an ambush for themselves; they attack their own lives. Such are the paths of all who profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.
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Proverbs 1:18
Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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Ephesians 5:11
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of unknown men.
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Proverbs 22:29
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope in steadfast love.
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Jonah 2:8
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.
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2 Timothy 1:7