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SAYING
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SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
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Verdict
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My Comment ~ Quip
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1.
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● God works in mysterious ways,
His wonders to perform
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De.29:29
Ps.40:5;86:10;136:4
Job 5:9;
9:10;
26:12-14;
36:26;
37:5
Ec.3:11
Isa.40:13
Acts 15:18
Rom.8:26-28;11:33-36
1st Tim.3:16
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Only God knows God.
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● His eternal glory
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Ps. 19:1;
29:10;
45:6;
Is. 60:19
1st Tim. 1:17
1st Pet. 5:10
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Glory extends through and past all perception.
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● Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
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Ps.111:10
Prov.9:10
Isa.29:9-14
1st Cor.3:18-19;
1:25
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Eternal wonderment is the amazement of God.
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● Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
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Job 28:28
Psalm 111:10
Prov. 1:7;
2:2-13;
9:10
Isaiah 33:6
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His extent surpasses all knowledge.
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● Experience is the mother of wisdom
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Job 12:12;
32:7-9
Prov. 3:13-18;
4:7;
10:23
Ec. 7:12
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Experience is the loss of innocence knowing grief.
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● Experience is the best teacher
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Ps. 119:71
Ec. 1:18
Lam. 3:27
Rom. 5:3-4
James 1:2-3
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Knowledge is a heavy anchor without patience to float.
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● Knowledge is power
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Prov. 9:10;
21:30
Ec. 4:1;
7:12
Is. 33:6;
47:10
Heb. 4:12
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Without God one is powerless.
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● From the ends of the earth
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1st Sam. 2:10
Job 28:24-25
Ps. 61:2;
135:7
Luke 11:31
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He freely establishes loveliness throughout time.
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● From the four corners of the earth
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Isaiah 11:12
Revelation 7:1;
20:7-8
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All directions on earth are under His care.
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● Nature is the art of God
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Job 38:4-18;
38:19-33
Psalms 89:11-12;
147:4
Ec. 3:11
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Unbiased colorful waves eternally mingle with life.
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● Cleanliness is next to godliness
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1st John 1:9
John 15:3
2nd Cor. 7:1
James 4:8
Eph. 5:26-27
Mat. 23:23-26
Luke 11:39-40
1st Sam. 16:7
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It is a clean heart God looks for.
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● Once saved, always saved
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James 2:24
Heb.6:4-6
1stCor.9:27
2ndCor.13:5
Jude 1:5
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Human doctrine avoids accountability to God.
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● Once in grace always in grace
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Ps. 84:11
2nd Pet. 3:18
Titus 2:11
Acts 20:32
Ep. 2:8;
6:24
Romans 5:1-2
Heb. 3:6;
12:28
Gal. 5:4
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Grace shields those
that pursue obedience to God.
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● Saved by the skin of my teeth
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Job 19:20
Psalm 33:16
Romans 5:10
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Still alive by the Grace of God!
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● The truth shall set you free
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John 8:31-32
Proverbs 23:23
1st John 5:20
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Truth is the highest of all possessions.
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● Moment of truth
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Ps.145:18
Mk.8:38
1stCor.15:52
2ndCor.13:8
1stThess.4:16
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NOW (Never Over Wonders) is God’s creation.
From instant to instant, it is coming.
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● Ring of truth
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Proverbs 11:22
Mark 12:30
John 8:32
2nd Timothy 2:15
James 1:18
1st John 4:6
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Self indulgence void of God
tolls the reapers judgment.
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● What is truth
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John 7:18;
8:32;
18:37-38
Rom. 1:25
2nd Cor. 13:8
Ep. 4:21
1st Tim. 3:15
1st John 1:8;
2:4
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Truth is trusting He is true.
Truth incites the murderous outrage of the ignorant.
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● Gospel truth
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Ephesians 1:13-14
Colossians 1:5-6
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Expressions of God convey His touch.
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● Rock solid truth
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Deut. 32:4
Psalms 12:6;
15:1-3;
51:6;
112:7
John 8:32
1st Cor. 13:4-6
2nd Cor. 13:8
2nd Tim. 2:19
Heb. 6:17-20
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Creation’s veil is obscured by all past reflections
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● The truth is not always what we want to hear
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Proverbs 23:23
Hebrews 12:4-11
Revelation 3:19
Job 5:17
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God knows what is best for each one of us.
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● Truth or dare
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Ezekiel 5:15
Mat. 22:41-46
Mark 11:27-33
James 1:13-14
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Truth’s clarity is not hidden behind scheming lies.
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● Don’t confuse me with the facts
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Is. 5:20
Mat. 21:12-13
Mark 11:17-18
Acts 24:25
Jm. 3:16
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Rejecting truth denies all that is noble.
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● Brutality honest
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Jude 1:22-23
John 16:29-30
1st Cor. 14:9
Gal. 2:14;
4:16
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Truth suffers alongside deception.
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● Honest to God
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Psalms 15:1-2;
73:28;
145:18
Proverbs 3:3-4;
12:22
Matthew 5:37
John 4:24
Romans 4:20
1st John 1:9
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Humble submission to His presence opens truth.
Truth with self is honesty in the face of God.
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● Truth stands the test of time;
lies are soon exposed
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Prov. 12:19;
13:5
John 8:32
2nd Corinthians 13:8
Ecclesiastes 12:14
1st Timothy 5:24
1st Thessalonians 5:21
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Truth transcends eternity
whereas lies dissipate to nothing.
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● A white lie
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Prov.12:19;
14:5;
19:9
Is.5:20
1stJohn 2:21
Rev.21:8;
22:15
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Any lie is the purest of dark.
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● Father of all lies
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John 8:44
Romans 1:25
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Self over God is a lie.
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● Liars often set their own traps
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Ps.64:4-8
Prov.17:4;
18:7;
25:18
1st John 1:10
Rev.21:8
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Liars lack the courage to stand in the light of truth.
A lie is the hardest to remember.
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● Believe the lie
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Isaiah 5:20
Jeremiah 7:8;
9:3
Romans 1:25
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Perceptions of man cannot nullify truth given of God.
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● Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies
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Proverbs 10:19;
13:3
Matthew 21:23-27
1st John 1:6;
2:4;
2:21-23;
4:1
Romans 3:4
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It is humans that are in question, not God.
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● The only stupid question
is the one that is not asked
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1st Thessalonians 5:21
1st John 4:1
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Without question there is no seeking.
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33.
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● Asking for trouble
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Psalm 7:14;
10:7
Proverbs 11:27
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Never invited, turmoil invades tranquility.
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● Separation of state and faith
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Isaiah 59:2
Romans 13:1-3
Titus 3:1
1st Peter 2:13-15
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We are called by faith to support our leaders.
There is no separation of faith from state.
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● Above the law
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Ezra 7:26
Ez. 7:23
1st Tim. 1:5-10
1st John 3:4
John 3:19
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Unjustly lawlessness rides rules of barefaced darkness.
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● A law unto themselves
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Ez.14:13-14;
16:14-19
Rom.2:12-16
Mat.7:21
1stJohn 3:7
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Adherence to self over God is not righteousness.
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● God helps those who help themselves
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Prov. 14:12;
28:26
Jer. 17:5
Rom. 5:6-8
Psalm 37:39
Mat. 5:6
2ndTim. 2:15
Jn. 7:17
1stPet. 2:1-3
Lk. 11:9-10
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God's help is supreme; We can only
be helped by wanting His help first.
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38.
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● All men are created equal
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Prov. 22:2
Ezekiel 18:4
Mat. 5:45
Rom. 10:12
Gal. 3:28
Ephesians 4:7;
4:11-13
1st Cor. 12:4-14
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All souls are uniquely of equal value;
Men are given varying talents.
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● To be or not to be
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Jas.5:12
Rom.14:8-9
Ps.118:17
Rev.2:7
1st John 5:11-12
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To believe and live or not to believe and die.
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40.
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● To each his own
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1st Kings 19:10
2nd Kings 4:33
Ps. 62:1;
102:7
Prov. 20:6
John 16:32
Luke 22:41
Mat. 25:15
Rom. 12:6-8
1st Cor. 7:7
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The bottom of each heart waits alone.
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● Know thyself
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Genesis 4:7
1st Timothy 4:16
1st Corinthians 2:11
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Grasp self awareness (control) or oblivion.
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● To thine ownself be true
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Matthew 5:37;
6:24
James 5:12
Luke 15:17;
21:19
Romans 3:3-4
1st Peter 4:10
1st John 5:20
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God alone is the only pure truth.
Be true to Him who gives life.
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● Believe in yourself
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Ps.118:8
Prov.3:5;
12:28;
16:25
Ez.14:20
Mark 4:40;
9:23-24
John 3:16,
3:36;
6:47;
14:1
1stThess. 5:6
Jm.2:23,
4:4
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Believing in and through God finds confidence in
knowing righteousness is the conviction to follow God.
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44.
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● May your every wish be granted
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Prov.10:24
Mat.7:11
Mk.11:24
John 15:7
Jm.1:5;
4:3
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Trusting God allows His blessings.
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45.
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● As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he
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Proverbs 23:7;
27:19
Matthew 5:28
Matthew 15:19
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The depth of a soul is the heart.
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46.
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● A man has to know his limitations
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Prov.6:27-28;14:12;20:24
Jn.15:4
2ndCor.6:12
Gal.5:16-21;6:5
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When desire exceeds capabilities calamities arise.
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47.
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● Let your conscience be your guide
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Psalm 48:14
Proverbs 12:15;
28:26
John 8:7-9
Acts 24:15-16
Romans 2:14-15;
13:5
1st Peter 3:21
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Guidance comes only by the Word of God;
Consider this in the passage of our lives.
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● A good conscience is a soft pillow
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Proverbs 3:21-24
Ecclesiastes 5:12
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Truth and honesty has no equal.
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● A clear conscience delivers deep sleep
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Ps.3:5-6;
4:8
Prov.3:21-26
Acts 24:16
Heb.13:18
1stTim.1:5
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Loving trust in Him secures true resting comfort.
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● In one’s heart of hearts
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1stChron.28:9
Prov.3:5;
4:20-23
Ec.3:11
Luke 6:45;
12:34
Mark 12:30
Rom. 10:10
2nd Cor. 4:6
Gal. 4:6
Joel 2:12-13
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One’s depth approaching truth defines existence.
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● Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve
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Nehemiah 2:2-3
Proverbs 12:16;
13:16;
18:2
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Grief strikes deepest when loved ones hurt.
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52.
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● He who serves two masters has to lie to one
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Job 27:8
Mat. 6:24
Luke 16:13
Rom. 6:16
2nd Pet. 2:19
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One’s heart chooses nobility or deception.
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● Smell a rat
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Psalm 64:6
Proverbs 14:16;
25:26
Isaiah 1:13-15
Luke 16:8
1st Timothy 5:24
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Evil confidently prowls over the innocent of heart.
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54.
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● Two faced
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Job 27:8
Psalm 119:113
Prov. 23:7;
24:8
Jer. 5:2
Matthew 6:24;
7:1-5;
23:3,
27
James 4:1-4,
8
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There is no honor a liar can hold.
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55.
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● Double tongued
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Jer. 9:8
Psalms 62:4;
78:36
Prov. 11:9;
20:14
Mark 7:6
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Serpents hiss sweet as they pounce upon the blind.
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56.
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● Play both sides of the fence
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Psalms 28:3;
62:3-4
Mark 11:27-33
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A hypocrite’s tool is to fool.
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● Stabbed in the back; Backstabber
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Exodus 20:16
Proverbs 11:9;
16:28;
20:19;
21:14
Matthew 26:14-16
Romans 1:29-32
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Cruel outrage arises from ignorant opinions
void of knowledge spewing from the womb of hate.
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58.
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● Oil and water don’t mix
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1st Corinthians 10:21
2nd Corinthians 6:14
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Hearts in the light fathom not darkness's evil.
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● If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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Ec. 1:17;
6:9
Matthew 6:24
1st Corinthians 9:24-26
Ephesians 4:14
James 1:6
Revelation 3:15-16
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Firm resolve to decide directs one’s dedication.
Commitment is essential in making life purposeful.
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● As mad as a March hare
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Ecclesiastes 9:3;
10:13
Galatians 5:17
James 1:15
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Hysterical desires advance regrets with gloom.
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61.
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● Zeal without prudence is frenzy
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Prov. 18:15;
22:3;
23:1,
17
Rom. 10:2
Gal. 4:18
Titus 2:14
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Thoughtful passion is inspirations miracle.
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62.
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● Head over heels
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Proverbs 25:16
Ecclesiastes 9:10
2nd Corinthians 9:2
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One controlled committed soul inspires the whole.
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63.
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● To err is human, to forgive is divine
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Romans 3:23
Matthew 6:14-15
1st John 4:1-6
2nd Peter 1:2-4
Ephesians 4:31-32
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Truth holds all divinity.
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64.
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● I'm only human
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Job 7:16;
32:8
Ps. 62:9;
78:39;
103:14
Jn. 16:21
Jm. 4:14
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Time is a fence all are humbled by.
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65.
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● The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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Genesis 4:7
Isaiah 59:11
Mat. 26:41
Mark 14:38
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We wish for more as we wearily groan.
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66.
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● Under the thumb
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Psalms 69:20;
119:134
Ec. 4:1
Matthew 5:10
John 15:20
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Oppression is the flesh we wear.
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67.
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● Every man for himself
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Isaiah 47:10;
56:11
Ezekiel 32:10
Jonah 1:5
Jeremiah 17:10
Matthew 26:38
Philippians 4:6
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Every soul desires salvation.
The essential nature of each determines life or death.
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68.
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● Every man has his price
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Proverbs 6:26;
13:7-8
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Isaiah 1:23
Luke 12:15
1st Corinthians 10:13
Acts 8:20
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Above cost lies integrity.
Heartless are those lacking nobility.
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69.
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● Pride comes before a fall
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Prov. 16:18;
18:12;
11:2
Ob. 1:3-4
Gal. 5:4
1st Tim. 3:6
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Pride is self over God.
The man who exalts himself exalts no one.
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70.
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● As proud as a peacock
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Proverbs 28:25-26
Isaiah 5:21
Ezekiel 13:3
Colossians 2:18
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Ominous displays can be flickers short lived.
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71.
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● Head in the clouds
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Ecclesiastes 11:4
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Lofty ideals can encumber sensibility.
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72.
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● Come down to earth
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Isaiah 45:18
John 8:23
1st John 4:17
1st Corinthians 5:8-10
Mark 16:15-16
Colossians 3:1-11
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Better to stand firm than fly vainly through life.
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73.
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● Down to earth
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Genesis 37:10;
42:6;
43:26;
48:12
James 4:10
1st Peter 5:6
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One is best served dutifully humbled by the earth.
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74.
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● No man is an island
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Psalm 97:1
Prov. 18:1
Romans 12:4-5
1st Cor. 12:13-14,
27
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A soul’s touch unfolds a multitude of legacies.
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75.
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● The work praises the man
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Psalm 90:17
Proverbs 6:6;
14:23
John 6:28-29
Ephesians 2:10
Colossians 1:10
Revelation 14:13
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Steady resilient efforts accomplish much.
Glories of a soul’s light beholds before the angels.
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76.
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● Work smarter not harder
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Nehemiah 6:15
John 6:28-29
Ep. 2:10
Col. 1:10
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The union of souls accomplishes the incomparable.
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77.
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● Practice what you preach
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1st Cor. 9:14;
9:27
Rom. 2:21-24
Heb. 12:1;
3:19
Gal. 1:6-9
Ephesians 2:10
1st Tim. 4:12
James 2:18
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One's works mirror the depth of one's faith.
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78.
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● Don't talk the talk
if you can't walk the walk
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Jeremiah 10:23
Ezekiel 33:31
Ephesians 5:15
Phil. 1:27
1st Cor. 9:27
James 3:14
1st Peter 1:6-8
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Flee corruption and pray honesty reveals you.
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79.
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● Nip it in the bud
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Jer. 6:16
1st Cor. 15:33
Galatians 5:16
1st Thess. 5:22
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One’s habits and traditions can shut off God.
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80.
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● Old habits die hard
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Job 22:15
Mark 7:7-9,
13
Rom.10:2
2ndTh.3:6
1stTim.4:7
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Convention can blind ability to see absolute truth.
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81.
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● Easier said than done
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1stSam.17:10
Lk.18:25
Rom.12:18
1st Cor.10:31
Phil.2:14
Col.3:14,
17,
23
1stTh.5:14
Heb.12:14
Jm. 1:23-25
1stJn.4:18
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Civilizations crumble lacking individual trust,
personal accountability, and reverence for God.
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82.
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● A thorn in my side
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Judges 2:3
John 19:34
2nd Corinthians 12:7
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Aching afflictions carry the hopes of humanity.
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83.
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● Grin and bear it
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Job 9:27
John 16:33
2nd Timothy 2:3
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An enduring nature is comforted by those similar.
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84.
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● No pain, no gain
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Psalm 104:23
Phil. 1:21
1st Timothy 6:6
Rev. 21:4
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Pain influences passageways to enlightenment.
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85.
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● If you can’t take it you shouldn’t dish it out
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Ecclesiastes 7:21-22
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Self sacrifice engages wisdoms nobility.
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86.
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● He that can’t endure the bad
will not see the good
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Job 7:11;
21:4
Ps.52:1
Luke 21:19
Rom.2:5-7
Jm.5:11
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Crippling despair sends many to unrecoverable gloom.
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87.
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● Into each life, a little rain must fall
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Mat. 5:45
2nd Cor. 4:17
Heb. 12:11
1st Pet. 1:6;
2:19;
5:10
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Tears heal wounds softening the heart.
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88.
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● Under the weather
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Ps. 38:6;
71:9;
109:22
Prov. 18:14
Ec. 12:1-3
Mark 2:17
|
🚫
|
Our candles flicker in a snuff, in the weather of time.
|
|
89.
|
● Survival of the fittest
|
Prov.24:16
1stCor.9:24
Gal.5:7
Heb.12:1
2ndTim.2:5
Jm.1:12
|
🚫
|
God uplifts those who follow Him.
|
|
90.
|
● Only the strong survive
|
Prov.3:5-8
Mat.16:25
1stCor.16:13
2ndCor.12:10
1stPet.4:18
|
🚫
|
Only the faithful in meekness shall survive.
|
|
91.
|
● When the going gets tough, the tough get going
|
Ps.27:1;
56:4
Prov.28:1
Gal.6:9
Heb.13:6
1stPet.3:14-15
|
🚫
|
Confidence sheds fear in the face of hardship.
|
|
92.
|
● Might makes right
|
Micah 7:16
Job 9:4;
36:5
Ec.9:10
Ps.33:16;
147:5
Prov.16:32
Jer.17:5
Dan.2:20;
4:3
Ep.3:16
1stPet.5:6
|
🚫
|
The instant power of God maintains truth.
|
|
93.
|
● Power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely
|
Exodus 5:2
Job 24:9-10
Proverbs 10:6;
29:2
Isaiah 3:15
Matthew 8:8-10;
11:12
|
🚫
|
It is not power that necessarily corrupts,
... that is left to a souls character of heart.
|
|
94.
|
● Brain is better than brawn
|
Ps. 37:16
Prov. 16:32;
20:15
Ec. 7:5;
9:16
Ep. 5:15
|
🚫
|
The might of intelligence is in its’ quiet reflection.
|
|
95.
|
● Noble in spirit
|
Proverbs 4:18
Romans 12:11-12
Philippians 4:8
|
🚫
|
The spirit is core to one’s soul character.
|
|
96.
|
● Good Samaritan
|
Luke 10:30-37
John 4:9
|
✔
|
Brave is caring to sacrifice for strangers.
|
|
97.
|
● Honesty is the best policy
|
Psalms 15:1-4
Prov. 12:19
2nd Cor. 13:8
1st Peter 2:12
|
🚫
|
God requires honest hearts.
|
|
98.
|
● Straight as an arrow
|
Ps.5:8;
32:8
Prov.4:18,
25
Mat.7:13
Jn.14:6
Acts 13:6-10
|
🚫
|
As bingo is to a bulls-eye, so obedience is to salvation.
|
|
99.
|
● Straight and narrow
|
Matthew 7:13-14;
7:13-14 KJV
|
✔
|
It is harder to do the right thing rather than the sly.
|
|
100.
|
● One good turn (deed) deserves another
|
Jer. 32:40
Gal. 6:10
Ep. 2:10
James 4:17
|
🚫
|
We are challenged to do good always.
|
|
101.
|
● Give a little, take a little / Give and take
|
Prov. 18:24;
27:17
Ec. 4:9-10
Mark 9:50
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
Without a giving heart no love may be had.
|
|
102.
|
● Actions speak louder than words
|
1st Samuel 2:3
1st John 3:18
Col. 3:17;
3:22-24
James 1:21-25 ;
2:17
Mat. 15:8
Rom. 2:13;
14:12
2nd Corinthians 5:10
Revelation 20:12-13
|
🚫
|
In both action and word,
All that we are is in one presence.
|
|
103.
|
● You get more with sugar than salt
|
Proverbs 15:1;
15:23;
16:24;
31:26
|
🚫
|
Love commands compassion softer than demands.
|
|
104.
|
● Don’t pour salt on the wound
|
Gen.19:24-26
Prov.23:29-32
Jer.8:3-6
Lk.4:25-29
Gal.5:15
|
🚫
|
A bitting tougue lacks an understanding heart.
Men more often reject truth masked in self illusions.
|
|
105.
|
● Speak softly but carry a big stick
|
Prov. 21:22-23;
24:5;
25:15;
25:28
Ec. 9:14-16
James 4:6
|
🚫
|
Wisdom creates a conduit of quiet strength.
|
|
106.
|
● Who knows most speaks least
|
Ec. 9:17
Lam. 3:25-26
Prov. 12:23;
13:16;
15:2;
17:27;
29:11
|
🚫
|
Prudence couples wisdom.
|
|
107.
|
● One ounce of facts is worth more
than a ton of garbage
|
Ec. 5:2-3
Proverbs 10:19;
17:27
Isaiah 40:15
1st Cor. 14:19
|
🚫
|
God is.
|
|
108.
|
● To a quick question give a slow answer
|
Proverbs 13:3;
15:28;
21:23
James 1:19;
3:2
|
🚫
|
Thoughtfulness is the grace of wisdom.
|
|
109.
|
● Think twice before you speak
|
Proverbs 21:23;
25:11
Ecclesistes 5:2-3
James 1:19
|
🚫
|
Consider judgment is due for each utterance.
|
|
110.
|
● A closed mouth catches no flies
|
Proverbs 10:19;
11:12;
17:27-28;
22:3
James 1:19
|
🚫
|
A fool’s mouth eats many shoes.
|
|
111.
|
● Keep your mouth shut and your ears open
|
Proverbs 10:19;
17:27;
21:23
Ec. 7:9
James 1:19;
3:2
|
🚫
|
Listening is the highest of all character traits.
|
|
112.
|
● Lend me your ear
|
Ecclesiastes 1:8
Matthew 13:9
John 5:25;
10:3
1st Corinthians 12:16-18
Romans 10:17
James 1:22
|
🚫
|
The call of life rings out for the genuine to come.
|
|
113.
|
● Don’t throw your pearls before swine
|
Proverbs 23:9
Matthew 7:6
|
✔
|
The world devourers precious convictions of spirit.
|
|
114.
|
● Don’t blow (toot) your own trumpet (horn)
|
Deut. 8:17
Ps. 49:6-7
Prov. 20:6
Is. 5:21
Luke 18:11-14;
20:46-47
2nd Cor. 10:17-18
|
🚫
|
Arrogance tramples the self at His revealing.
|
|
115.
|
● Empty vessels make the most noise
|
Ps. 59:7;
94:4
Prov. 10:10,
19;
12:16;
13:16;
18:2;
29:11
Ecclesiastes 10:11
|
🚫
|
Chattering fools rage in the madness
of their perceived superiority.
|
|
116.
|
● A chip on your shoulder
|
Psalms 10:7
Proverbs 14:10
Jeremiah 5:23
Romans 3:14
|
🚫
|
Arrogance devourers the meek consumed in tears.
|
|
117.
|
● Holier than thou
|
Prov. 26:12
Is. 65:5
Luke 18:9-14;
20:46-47
1st John 2:16
|
✔
|
Humbility is our ability to be humble.
Pomp-pissity is self proclaiming.
|
|
118.
|
● Know it all’s
|
Jeremiah 7:8-10
Romans 2:19-24
|
🚫
|
Watch out for godless normal people,
they can be condemningly dangerous.
|
|
119.
|
● Barking dogs seldom bite
|
Ps. 64:3
Prov. 11:9;
12:18;
14:17;
18:6-7;
26:17-19
Jm. 3:10
|
🚫
|
Most attacks come from shallow holes.
|
|
120.
|
● Put up or shut up
|
Ps.12:3-4;
75:4-5
Prov.18:7;
20:6;
21:3
Mat.6:1
Jm.1:20;
1:25
|
🚫
|
Boastful actions void of God deny His Glory.
|
|
121.
|
● Quiet as a mouse
|
Prov.22:3
Amos 5:13
Luke 9:35-36
1stTim.2:1-2
1stPet.3:4
|
🚫
|
Fear halts the forthrightness of a people.
|
|
122.
|
● Cut to the chase (quick)
|
John 10:24-30;
16:25-30
Psalms 118:8-9
Ephesians 6:24
|
🚫
|
Is your faith of man or God?
|
|
123.
|
● Beating around the bush
|
1stCor.14:9
Mat.5:23-24;
23:19;
5:37
Jm.5:12
Luke 20:23
|
🚫
|
Worldly thoughts hinder directness with God.
|
|
124.
|
● Blow hot and cold
|
Mat. 5:37
2nd Cor. 1:17-18
James 5:12
Rev. 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
Life stirs the peace of pleasures to the pains of fear.
|
|
125.
|
● If you can’t say something nice,
don’t say anything at all
|
Ps. 34:13
Prov. 10:19;
13:3;
29:20
Ec. 5:2-3
Col. 4:6
Jm. 1:19;
1:26
Lk. 6:45
Mat. 15:11;
12:36-37
|
🚫
|
Words are expressions of spirit.
|
|
126.
|
● Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
|
Proverbs 18:12,
18:21
Isaiah 5:21
Romans 1:22
|
🚫
|
A careless mouth lacks deliberate actions.
|
|
127.
|
● Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words can never hurt me
|
Numbers 24:8
Job 19:2
Psalm 59:12;
64:3-4;
109:3
|
🚫
|
Words can be the most divisive
shattering the the roots of tranquility.
|
|
128.
|
● Do as I say, not as I do
|
Matthew 23:3
|
🚫
|
The yoke hypocrites set plague all peace.
|
|
129.
|
● I was only joking
|
Proverbs 26:18-19
Ephesians 4:29;
5:4
1st Timothy 4:16
|
✔
|
No kidding God requires our humble hearts.
|
|
130.
|
● Lip service
|
Is.29:13
Mat.15:8-9;
23:3
Mk.7:6-7
Rom.16:17-18
Ep.6:6
|
✔
|
God’s word corrects the dubious claims of man.
|
|
131.
|
● Falling on deaf ears
|
Ps.58:3-5
Mat.13:14-15
Acts 28:25-27
Rom.11:8
Heb.3:15
|
✔
|
Hardened hearts pay no heed.
|
|
132.
|
● No one is as deaf as a man who will not listen
|
Jer. 6:10;
44:5;
44:16
Ezekiel 3:7
Zec. 7:11
2nd Tim. 4:4
|
🚫
|
Hateful closed minded pompous bigotry.
|
|
133.
|
● In one ear and out the other
|
Jeremiah 6:10
Psalm 10:13
2nd Timothy 3:7;
4:3-4
Acts 28:26-27
2nd Kings 18:12
Romans 1:28
|
🚫
|
Remaining purposely oblivious
does not excuse accountability to God.
|
|
134.
|
● A little bird told me
|
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Proverbs 11:13
|
🚫
|
Whispers can be heard the loudest.
|
|
135.
|
● Heard it through the grapevine
|
Proverbs 11:13;
16:28
Ecclesiastes 10:20
James 3:5-6,
8-10
|
🚫
|
Secrets are often heard faster than news.
|
|
136.
|
● Mind your own business
|
Proverbs 20:19,
26:17
1stThess. 4:11
2ndThess. 3:11
1st Timothy 5:13
1st Peter 4:15
|
✔
|
Hold your wits from afflicting others.
|
|
137.
|
● Your word is your bond
|
Ps.15:4;
34:13
Prov.19:1
Mat.5:37
Jm.5:12;
3:5-10
Col.4:6
|
🚫
|
Words are the easiest thing to misunderstand.
|
|
138.
|
● A word to the wise is sufficient
|
Proverbs 16:23
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
Truth opens the eyes of the wise.
|
|
139.
|
● He is not wise that is not wise for himself
|
Ps. 25:21,
51:6,
90:12
Prov. 8:5,
11:17,
19:2
James 3:17
|
🚫
|
To be wise is a lofty ideal.
|
|
140.
|
● Use it or lose it
|
Matthew 25:14-30
Luke 19:11-27
1st Timothy 4:14
|
🚫
|
God calls each of us to use and refine gifted abilities.
|
|
141.
|
● Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you
|
Matthew 7:12
Luke 6:31
|
✔
|
The Golden Rule.
|
|
142.
|
● Good news
|
1st Chronicles 16:23
Psalms 40:9;
96:2
1st Thessalonians 3:6
|
✔
|
Good news lies in the bosom of God’s calling truths.
|
|
143.
|
● A good rule of thumb
|
Leviticus 14:28-29
Psalm 19:7
Matthew 7:12
|
🚫
|
Give your heart to God’s will.
|
|
144.
|
● Thumbs up
|
Ec. 9:10
Matthew 25:21
2nd Corinthians 1:17;
10:18
|
🚫
|
Approval is the sweetest flavor of love.
|
|
145.
|
● A good name is better than riches
|
Prov. 10:7;
20:11;
22:1;
27:19
Ec. 7:1
Rev. 3:5;
20:15
|
✔
|
The character of a soul speaks their name.
|
|
146.
|
● A man is known by the company he keeps
|
Prov.12:16
1stCor.5:9-11;
15:33
2ndThess.3:14
Heb.10:24-25
|
🚫
|
Not only God sees people for who they are.
|
|
147.
|
● The tree is known by its fruit
|
Matthew 7:16-20;
12:33
Luke 6:43-44
|
✔
|
Life’s miracle juice is the fruit we bear.
|
|
148.
|
● Comparing apples to oranges
|
Isaiah 5:20
Matthew 7:17-18
|
🚫
|
We know truth can not be exchanged for a lie.
|
|
149.
|
● Who needs enemies with friends like them
|
Ps.55:21;
57:4;
62:4
Prov.25:19
Rom.16:18
2ndTim.3:1-5
|
🚫
|
Friendship stands on an accepting heart
and one’s ability not to judge or expect.
|
|
150.
|
● If you can count your friends
on one hand, you’re lucky
|
Proverbs 14:20;
17:17;
18:24;
19:4,
19:7;
27:10,
27:17
1stSam.18:1
Job 32:3
Psalm 41:9
Luke 21:16
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
Special precious treasure
are hearts closer than words.
|
|
151.
|
● Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
|
Proverbs 16:7;
25:21
Isaiah 50:8
Luke 6:27-28;
6:31-35
|
🚫
|
We are challenged to love more than we do.
|
|
152.
|
● A friend to all is a friend to none
|
Rom. 12:18
Heb. 12:14
1st Thess. 5:14
James 4:4
|
🚫
|
God calls for a spiritual nature of friendship with all.
|
|
153.
|
● A friend in need is a friend indeed
|
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Proverbs 18:24
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
All look for that mountain of encouragement.
|
|
154.
|
● Two heads are better than one
|
Ecclesiastes 4:9-11
|
🚫
|
Agreement is the challenge of unity.
|
|
155.
|
● In the multitude of counselors there is wisdom
|
Proverbs 4:6;
8:12-14;
11:14;
15:22;
24:6
|
✔
|
God fearing souls alone are able to give wise counsel.
|
|
156.
|
● Diamonds cut diamonds
|
Proverbs 27:17
Ecclesiastes 10:10
|
🚫
|
Only through vigilant awareness will we rise
to the occasion where strength clears our vision.
|
|
157.
|
● In unity there is strength
|
Psalms 133:1
Ep. 4:3-6;
4:13
John 17:21
Acts 2:42-45
2nd Kings 6:16
1st John 4:4
Romans 8:31
|
🚫
|
Truth is the only real strength.
|
|
158.
|
● United we stand, divided we fall
|
Amos 3:3
Mat. 12:25
1st Cor. 1:13;
3:3;
12:12;
12:25
Mal.2:10
Ep.4:4-6
Phil.1:27-28
Rom.12:4-5
2ndCor.11:3-4
|
🚫
|
Christ came to declare His church, not mans.
The One Living God will judge us all through Christ.
|
|
159.
|
● Make it or break it
|
Psalm 129:4
Proverbs 13:15
Nahum 1:7
James 2:10
|
🚫
|
Trust in the Lord or be broken defenseless.
|
|
160.
|
● We are all in the same boat
|
Prov. 22:2;
29:13
Matthew 5:45
1st Cor. 10:13
Jude 1:3
|
🚫
|
God has declared His rules and be it no other.
Of all, all of our fingers are just in different holes.
|
|
161.
|
● On the same page
|
Ep.4:4-7
Phil.2:2
1stCor.12:25
1stTim.3:15;
4:13
1stJn.1:7
|
🚫
|
Skewing pages of man tears from the truth of God.
|
|
162.
|
● Partners in crime
|
Prov. 1:10-16;
29:24
Is. 59:7-8
John 3:19
Acts 5:1-11
|
🚫
|
Double trouble those that rebel against God.
|
|
163.
|
● Crime doesn’t pay
|
1st John 3:4
Romans 6:23
Proverbs 28:13
1st Cor. 6:9-10
|
🚫
|
Masters of crime reap great material rewards;
Spiritual crimes will find no eternal favor.
|
|
164.
|
● Caught red handed
|
Psalm 10:2
Prov. 5:22;
6:17
Is. 1:15
Ez. 23:37
John 8:4
|
🚫
|
Sin has no hiding place.
|
|
165.
|
● There is no (even) honor among thieves
|
Job 24:16
Proverbs 1:18;
4:14-17;
5:22;
11:5;
21:7
John 10:10
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
The bitterness of evil has no respect.
|
|
166.
|
● Give a thief enough rope and he’ll hang himself
|
Ex. 20:15
Ps. 10:3
Prov. 1:18-19
John 10:7-11
Ep. 4:28
|
🚫
|
Without a giving heart it's just a lost taking heart.
|
|
167.
|
● Familiarity breeds contempt
|
Jeremiah 17:9
Psalm 123:3
Matthew 10:36
Deut. 5:21
Proverbs 27:4;
14:30
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
Despicable, thy name is human.
|
|
168.
|
● The straw that broke the camels back
|
James 1:14
1st Cor. 10:13
Romans 5:3-5
James 1:2-4
|
🚫
|
Do not let that of the world break your hope.
|
|
169.
|
● The last drop makes the cup run over
|
Proverbs 24:10
Jeremiah 51:46
1st Cor. 10:13
Hebrews 12:3
|
🚫
|
Endure for the world is filled with failures.
|
|
170.
|
● Failure is the path of least persistence
|
Ecclesiastes 10:15
1st Corinthians 13:2
Hebrews 12:15
|
🚫
|
Discontent consumes the peace that love awards.
|
|
171.
|
● Caught between a rock and a hard place
|
1st Samuel 14:4
Luke 18:24-25
|
🚫
|
Difficult is course to heaven and many who
desire it will choose self over sacrifice for God.
|
|
172.
|
● Walking on egg-shells
|
Isaiah 8:9
1st Peter 4:18
Hebrews 10:31
|
🚫
|
Dangerously fragile is the path without God.
|
|
173.
|
● Walking on thin ice
|
Ps.73:18
Mat.7:26-27
Jn.12:48
1st Pet.4:18
Rev.3:15-16
|
🚫
|
To ignore the word of God is condemning.
|
|
174.
|
● Walking on water
|
Matthew 14:25-31
Mark 6:48-49
John 6:19
Luke 18:27
|
✔
|
The surface of all is God.
|
|
175.
|
● Keep you head above water
|
Matthew 14:29-31
Luke 21:28
John 16:33
|
🚫
|
Optimism keeps its light lit ahead.
|
|
176.
|
● In deep water
|
Gen.1:2
Ps.18:16-17;
69:2;
124:2-5;
144:7
2nd Tim.1:8-9
|
🚫
|
He calls to us each, much deeper than this world.
|
|
177.
|
● Up the creek without a paddle
|
Psalm 22:11;
55:5;
88:6
Isaiah 50:2
Ec. 8:8
Ep. 2:12
|
🚫
|
Spirit evaporates for those not moored in the Lord.
|
|
178.
|
● Up a tree
|
Gen.2:9
Job 5:7
Ps.22:11;
143:11
Prov.13:15
Lk.19:1-6
|
🚫
|
Every trouble overcome often leads to another.
|
|
179.
|
● In a pickle
|
Jonah 2:5
2nd Corinthians 4:8-9;
7:5
|
🚫
|
Though we are tormented, God reaches out to each.
|
|
180.
|
● Woe is me
|
Job 10:15
Micah 7:1
1st Corinthians 9:16
|
✔
|
Misery is common to man.
|
|
181.
|
● Misery be mine
|
Psalm 69:20;
116:3
Ecclesiastes 1:18;
2:22-23;
8:6
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🚫
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Moaner, Groaner, Emotional owner.
Blaming others makes misery comfortable.
|
|
182.
|
● At wits’ end
|
Psalm 107:27
Proverbs 19:3
|
✔
|
Exasperation can tie knots twisting one’s knowing.
|
|
183.
|
● On pins and needles
|
Job 4:14
Proverbs 12:25;
24:10
Mark 4:40
2ndCorinthians 4:8-9
2ndPeter 2:8
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🚫
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Suffering without measure anguishes the soul.
|
|
184.
|
● Gnashing of teeth
|
Matthew 8:10-12;
13:41-42,
49-50;
22:12-13;
24:49-51;
25:30-31
Luke 13:28
2nd Peter 2:17
Jude 1:13
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✔
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The needles of thought pierce death’s helplessness.
|
|
185.
|
● Eat you alive
|
Lev.26:29
Deut.28:53-57
1st Sam.25:37-38
2nd Sam.24:15-17
2ndKi.6:28-29
Jer.19:9
Lam.2:20;
4:10
Ez.5:10
Acts 12:21-23
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🚫
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Anger, pride, and anguish reduce to a breathless spirit.
|
|
186.
|
● He doesn’t have a prayer
|
Ps. 18:41;
66:18
Prov. 15:29
Job 35:12
Jer. 7:16;
11:13-15
Mat. 6:5-7
John 9:31
|
🚫
|
Haughty faithless fools carry worthless prayers.
Prayer connects the sincere heart to eternity.
|
|
187.
|
● An angry man is not fit to pray
|
Matthew 5:22-24
2nd Cor. 12:20
1st Tim. 2:8
James 2:20
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🚫
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It is a continuous work to bury anger.
|
|
188.
|
● Out of the frying pan into the fire
|
Daniel 3:15-23
Revelation 2:10
1st Cor. 3:13
|
🚫
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Eternity ignites fried truth lost or freed souls.
|
|
189.
|
● He who plays with fire will get burned
|
Deut.32:22
Job 4:8
Prov.6:27;
10:16
Ez.18:20-32;
33:18
Matthew 18:8-9
Mark 9:43-49
Romans 6:23
James 1:15
Galatians 6:7-8
1st Peter 1:3-9
Revelation 16:8-9
|
🚫
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Not regarding God’s will invite His wrath.
|
|
190.
|
● Like a moth to a flame
|
Gen. 4:7
Prov. 6:25-26;
7:21-23
Gal. 5:16-17
James 1:13-15
|
🚫
|
Sin appeals most sweetly and delicious.
|
|
191.
|
● Curiosity killed the cat
|
1st Samuel 6:19
John 4:48
James 1:15
|
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|
Desire for the profane damages the soul.
|
|
192.
|
● When the cat’s away the mice will play
|
Proverbs 15:3
Matthew 24:48-51;
25:30
Romans 1:28
|
🚫
|
Disregarding accountability defines criminality.
|
|
193.
|
● Milk it for all it’s worth
|
Phil.3:19
Col.2:18-19
1stTim.6:5
2ndTim.3:5-6
Tit.1:10-11
|
🚫
|
Many pursuits take advantage by biting on delay.
|
|
194.
|
● There’s a sucker born every minute
|
Psalm 58:3
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3;
7:1
John 3:6-8
|
🚫
|
Our gullibility capacity speaks of our desire to trust.
|
|
195.
|
● If you build it, they will come
|
Genesis 7:5-9
Nehemiah 4:6-8
|
🚫
|
Atrocities cascade across the constructions of man.
Only the innocent of heart truly hear the call.
|
|
196.
|
● A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
|
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Isaiah 26:10
1st Corinthians 12:20-26
|
🚫
|
Appalling lawlessness respects no one.
|
|
197.
|
● One broken link breaks the entire chain
|
Matthew 12:25
Romans 5:11-14
|
🚫
|
The civilization of man is immersed in corruption.
|
|
198.
|
● Built on sand
|
Matthew 7:26-27
|
✔
|
The penalty for ignoring God is emptiness.
|
|
199.
|
● A house divided can not stand
|
Matthew 12:25
2nd Kings 19:27
1st John 4:18
|
✔
|
Torments plague the unsettled.
|
|
200.
|
● Put (Get) your own house in order
|
Isaiah 38:1
Matthew 7:3-5
Luke 6:41-42
|
✔
|
Accusation comes easier than accountability.
|
|
201.
|
● So goes the family, so goes the nation
|
Psalms 133:1;
144:15
Prov. 14:34
Isaiah 25:3
Ez. 14:13-14
Hosea 4:1
Malachi 4:6
Mat. 10:36;
21:43
Rom. 13:10
|
🚫
|
Society’s void of tender intimate love
beat despair to a crying death.
|
|
202.
|
● People who live in glass houses
shouldn’t throw rocks (stones)
|
Proverbs 11:9;
18:17
Luke 6:41-42
Matthew 7:2-5;
23:27
|
🚫
|
Purging self acquires more than punishing others.
It is easier to put one down than to build one up.
|
|
203.
|
● Ivory tower
|
Lev. 19:32
Psalms 45:8
Prov. 16:31;
20:29
Song of Solomon 7:4
Amos 3:15
1st Timothy 5:1-3
|
✔
|
Civilization’s depth embraces longstanding heritage.
|
|
204.
|
● A man's home is his castle
|
Mat. 7:24-27
John 14:2-4;
23
2nd Cor. 5:1
Luke 12:15
1st Timothy 6:7
Amos 3:15
|
🚫
|
Thirst for that eternal home.
|
|
205.
|
● Home is where your heart is
|
Matthew 6:19-21
Luke 12:34
|
🚫
|
In a hearts bottom rests home.
|
|
206.
|
● Charity begins at home
|
1stJohn 4:8
Proverbs 3:33;
20:7 ;
22:6
Matthew 5:43-48;
12:25;
25:31-40
|
🚫
|
Love begins with God, then one's
enemies and strangers. Love ends at home.
|
|
207.
|
● Marriages are made in heaven
|
Matthew 19:4-9;
22:30
Mark 10:4-12;
12:25
1st Cor. 7:10-11
|
🚫
|
Marriage is ordained by God exclusively on earth.
|
|
208.
|
● A diamond is forever
|
1st Cor. 7:10-11
Matthew 5:31-32;
19:3-12
Romans 7:2-3
|
🚫
|
Marriage reflects character for eternal commitment.
|
|
209.
|
● Tie the knot
|
Mark 10:9
Ephesians 4:11-16;
5:22-33
|
🚫
|
Recognizing eternal bonds reveals God’s purpose.
|
|
210.
|
● Until death do us part
|
Gen. 2:24
Ec. 9:9
Mat. 19:4-6
Rom. 7:1-2
1st Cor. 7:39
|
🚫
|
Marriage declares the mortal union of souls.
|
|
211.
|
● For keeps
|
Ps. 33:11;
45:6;
48:14;
73:26
Ec. 3:14
Dan. 7:18
John 14:21
1st John 2:5
Hebrews 13:8
James 1:22
1st John 2:17
|
🚫
|
Nothing tangible in life endures forever,
whereas God waits for eternal awakenings.
|
|
212.
|
● Love to death
|
Prov. 18:21
Song 8:6
Mat. 26:35
Mark 14:31
Rev. 12:11
|
🚫
|
Passion's color reflects a spirits soul nature;
Love opens the lungs; an endless extent.
|
|
213.
|
● Cross my heart and hope to die
|
Numbers 30:2
2nd Kings 10:15
Ecclesiastes 10:2
|
🚫
|
A promise is only true if in sureness of heart.
No thief can steal a heart that God has healed.
|
|
214.
|
● Frailty, thy name is woman
|
Ecclesiastes 7:28
1st Peter 3:3-4,
7
|
🚫
|
If you are not loyal to one, you have none.
|
|
215.
|
● Behind every successful man is a woman
|
Prov.12:4;
31:10-11,
28
1stCor.11:7-9
Col. 3:18
1stPet.3:1-2
|
🚫
|
Grand achievements
accompany the tender mercies of a woman.
|
|
216.
|
● A woman’s work is never done
|
1st Timothy 2:9-10
Titus 2:3-5
1st Peter 3:1-4
|
🚫
|
A woman’s inspiration knows how to notably rise.
|
|
217.
|
● Spare the rod, spoil the child
|
Prov.3:11-12;
13:24;
22:15;
23:13-14;
29:15
Heb.12:4-11
|
🚫
|
Correction is a rule of God.
|
|
218.
|
● Black sheep
|
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Exodus 21:15,
17
Job 24:13
Isaiah 53:6
Matthew 7:15;
21:28-31
|
🚫
|
There are those that live to hate and hate to live.
|
|
219.
|
● Do not wear out your welcome
|
Proverbs 25:17
|
🚫
|
Friendship’s thin line can often become annoyed.
|
|
220.
|
● Children should be seen and not heard
|
Deut.27:16
Prov.1:8;
6:20;
22:6;
29:15
Ep.6:4
1stTim.3:4
|
🚫
|
Loss of engagement cripples family life.
|
|
221.
|
● Praise the young and they will blossom
|
Deut.4:9
Ps.78:4;
127:3
Prov.19:18;
22:6
Ep.6:4
Col.3:21
|
🚫
|
Pure hearts grow nurtured by nudges of light.
|
|
222.
|
● A chip off the old block
|
Isaiah 51:1
Isaiah 64:8
1st Corinthians 10:4
|
🚫
|
One must realize spiritual origins.
|
|
223.
|
● A feather in one’s cap
|
Ps. 127:4-5
Prov. 7:1-4;
21:20
Is. 33:6
Mat. 6:21;
12:35
|
🚫
|
Grasping shards of truth enlightens the heart.
|
|
224.
|
● Through thick and thin
|
Proverbs 18:24
Ecclesiastes 12:1
|
🚫
|
No commitment is greater than forever.
|
|
225.
|
● Blood is thicker than water
|
Lev.17:11
Mat.10:34.39
1stTim.5:8
Rom.12:5
Gal.6:10
|
🚫
|
Our bond to God is through His blood.
|
|
226.
|
● Sweating blood
|
Luke 22:44
2nd Corinthians 2:4
|
🚫
|
Christ suffered in life to profess His acute love.
|
|
227.
|
● By the sweat of his brow
|
Genesis 3:19
|
✔
|
Desperately hard work is the plight of man.
|
|
228.
|
● No sweat off of my brow
|
Job 29:5-7
Isaiah 47:8-10
John 10:13
|
🚫
|
Indifference spins a shallow drain to hell.
|
|
229.
|
● No strings attached
|
Gen. 2:7
Joshua 24:15
Job 21:14;
26:7
Prov. 14:14;
16:9
Mat.11:28
Mk.8:34
Lk.11:9
John 5:40;
6:57
2ndTim.1:7
|
🚫
|
The Love of the Father does not make us His puppets.
|
|
230.
|
● Two shakes of a lamb’s tail
|
Ecclesiastes 9:11
John 10:13
Revelation 3:11
|
🚫
|
Hurriedness often compromises carefulness.
|
|
231.
|
● Busy as a bee
|
Proverbs 6:6-9
Job 12:7
Ephesians 5:15-17
|
🚫
|
Do not abandon your efforts to know God.
|
|
232.
|
● Haste makes waste
|
Proverbs 21:5
1st Corinthians 15:58
Luke 8:15
|
🚫
|
All things done well employ care.
|
|
233.
|
● Waste not, want not
|
Ps. 23:1;
34:9
Prov. 13:25;
23:12
Mat. 19:17
Mark 4:24-25
Ep.5:14-18
1stCor.5:8
1stPet.1:7
2ndPet.3:14
James 2:20
|
🚫
|
Wanting as the Lord returns delivers those empty.
The opportunity to be filled is at hand!
|
|
234.
|
● He who hesitates is lost
|
1st Kings 18:21
Luke 9:61-62
1st Thess. 5:2-3
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
Indecision leaves true purpose lacking.
|
|
235.
|
● Opportunity seldom knocks twice
|
Is. 44:22
Mat. 25:1-13,
24:42
Acts 8:21-22
Heb. 9:27
|
🚫
|
The Lord’s patience for folly will end.
|
|
236.
|
● Caution is the better part of valor
|
Psalm 27:14
Proverbs 24:27
Luke 14:28-30
|
🚫
|
It takes courage to have patience.
|
|
237.
|
● Hold your horses
|
Genesis 4:7
Proverbs 13:3;
16:32
James 3:2
|
🚫
|
Patience unites a soul with the divine.
|
|
238.
|
● Discretion is the better part of valor
|
Psalm 112:5
Proverbs 2:11;
3:21;
8:12;
19:11
|
🚫
|
Careful planning avoids cowardice.
|
|
239.
|
● A stitch in time saves nine
|
Proverbs 10:4;
22:3
Matthew 25:10
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
Delaying what you are able to do magnifies troubles.
|
|
240.
|
● An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
|
Matthew 25:1-13
Luke 16:10
2nd Timothy 4:5
|
🚫
|
One not ready is left in the cold (dark).
|
|
241.
|
● An apple a day keeps the doctor away
|
Psalm 147:3
Proverbs 7:2;
17:22
1st Cor. 8:8
Romans 14:17
|
🚫
|
True sustenance is divine union.
|
|
242.
|
● Little by little does the trick
|
Ex. 23:30
Deut. 7:22
1st Cor. 15:58
Gal. 6:9
Heb. 10:36
|
🚫
|
The soul is refined by adherence to details of spirit.
|
|
243.
|
● A rising tide lifts all boats
|
Psalms 49:2;
61:2
Proverbs 18:10
Luke 21:25-28
|
🚫
|
Inspiration pushes forward passing fears left behind.
|
|
244.
|
● Time and tide wait for no man
|
Psalm 144:4
Hebrews 9:27;
4:13
|
🚫
|
The eventuality of meeting God is certain.
|
|
245.
|
● Desperate times call for desperate measures
|
Ps. 32:10
Prov. 14:34
Ez. 14:13-14
Nahum 3:1
Ep. 6:12
|
🚫
|
Unless we return to God, the nation is lost.
|
|
246.
|
● Signs of the times
|
Mat. 16:3;
24:30-31,
37-39
Mark 13:4,
33
Luke 17:26-30
2nd Timothy 3:1-5,
4:2
Revelation 1:7
|
✔
|
The events of His imminent return have been given.
Each heart will bow before His life given for us all.
|
|
247.
|
● An outward sign of an inward act (change)
|
Luke 24:46-47
Mark 1:8
John 3:5
Acts 2:36-38;
3:19-21
Romans 2:28-29;
6:23
2nd Cor. 4:16;
10:7
1st Peter 3:21
|
🚫
|
Come to yourself aware of God's word. An inward
change produces true outward acts of faith. Only
baptism seals the bond with the gift of the promise.
|
|
248.
|
● Do not (never) put off until tomorrow
what you can do today
|
Matthew 25:10
2nd Corinthinas 6:2
Ephesians 4:21-24;
5:15-16
Hebrews 3:12-15
|
🚫
|
Actions are measured in time.
|
|
249.
|
● Today is the first day of the rest of your life
|
Deut. 30:15
Psalms 118:24
2nd Cor. 6:2
Hebrews 3:13
|
🚫
|
Each moment is a choice of heart.
|
|
250.
|
● Procrastination is the thief of time
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10
2nd Peter 3:10-12
Ephesians 5:15-16
2nd Corinthians 6:2
Revelation. 3:3;
16:15
Matthew 25:10
|
🚫
|
It is dangerous to avoid responsibility.
|
|
251.
|
● Half-hearted
|
Job 36:21
2nd Chron. 25:2
Psalm 66:18
Proverbs 14:14
Mat. 13:20-21
Mark 4:16-17
Acts 5:3
Jm.4:8
Rev. 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
Succumbing to sin is an easier slide
than suffering restraint’s uphill climb.
|
|
252.
|
● Don't let any grass grow under your feet
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
10:18
Proverbs 6:6;
24:30-34;
28:19
Ephesians 5:15-16
Philippians 3:13-14
|
🚫
|
Climb the staircase to eternity.
|
|
253.
|
● A rolling stone gathers no moss
|
Proverbs 6:6-9;
28:19;
19:15;
26:27
Luke 9:62
|
🚫
|
Flee evil for it will return to itself.
|
|
254.
|
● Burn the midnight oil
|
Psalms 119:62
Matthew 25:1-13
Acts 20:7
2nd Timothy 4:2
|
🚫
|
Attentiveness is awareness’s passion to patiently know.
|
|
255.
|
● Burning the candle at both ends
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
11:6
Matthew 25:1-13
|
🚫
|
Pursuit of purpose inspires life beyond measure.
|
|
256.
|
● Keep your nose to the grindstone
|
Lamentations 5:13
Luke 9:62;
20:17-18
|
🚫
|
Though heavy, one needs determination to find truth.
|
|
257.
|
● The grindstone of life polishes character
|
Prov.6:6-8
Ec.9:10;
11:6
Rom.12:11
1st Cor.15:58
Col. 3:23
|
🚫
|
Focus is what drives success.
|
|
258.
|
● The squeaky wheel gets the grease
|
Psalm 34:15
Luke 11:5-8
1st John 5:14-15
|
🚫
|
Persistence is the ladder to success.
|
|
259.
|
● The nail that sticks up will be hammered down
|
Isaiah 2:12
Luke 11:5-8
|
🚫
|
Humble visible persistance is rewarded with results.
|
|
260.
|
● Nothing ventured, nothing gained
|
Proverbs 22:13
James 4:13-17
1st Timothy 6:6
|
🚫
|
God's rewards are without equal.
|
|
261.
|
● No time like the present
|
Ephesians 5:15-16
2nd Corinthians 6:2
|
🚫
|
Action is a condition of Now.
|
|
262.
|
● Live for today
|
Mat. 6:30-34
2nd Cor. 6:2
Heb. 3:13
Psalms 118:22-24
|
🚫
|
Yesterday’s toil is today’s ongoing triumph.
|
|
263.
|
● Just taking it one day at a time
|
Proverbs 27:1
Matthew 6:34
James 4:13-15
|
🚫
|
Chasing survival from sunrise to sunset.
|
|
264.
|
● The early bird catches the worm
|
Matthew 6:33;
20:1-16
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
No matter the time, catch on to God.
|
|
265.
|
● Leave (He left) no stone unturned
|
Prov.12:27;
22:29
Col.3:23
Ep.6:6
Heb.11:6
2nd Tim.2-15
|
🚫
|
Passion for excellence draws success.
|
|
266.
|
● Strike while the iron is hot
|
1st Tim. 4:2
Ec. 9:10
2nd Cor. 6:2
Rev. 22:17
|
🚫
|
Sin strikes blindness, come to repentance.
|
|
267.
|
● Keep on your toes
|
Col. 4:6
Titus 3:8
Heb. 13:16
2nd Tim. 4:2
1st Pet. 3:15
|
🚫
|
Accepting truth wards off denial’s devouring.
Reality touches the fringe of awareness’ introspection.
|
|
268.
|
● Get your ducks in a row (lined up)
|
Proverbs 24:27
Luke 14:28-29
|
🚫
|
Order establishes sound thoughts.
|
|
269.
|
● Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy, and wise
|
Proverbs 6:9;
12:11;
20:13
|
🚫
|
Sleep is an annoying reminder of death.
|
|
270.
|
● The cream of the crop
|
Exodus 22:29-30
Numbers 18:12
Leviticus 22:21
Proverbs 3:9
|
🚫
|
Offer the best that you are to the Lord.
|
|
271.
|
● Sweet as honey
|
Psalm 119:103
Proverbs 24:13
Revelation 10:9
|
✔
|
Nests are uncovered to reveal good or bad truth.
Heaven drips pathways colored with honey.
|
|
272.
|
● You are what you eat
|
Ps. 22:26
Ec. 2:24
Is. 55:2
Mat. 6:11;
6:25
1st Tim. 4:7-8
|
🚫
|
Spiritual sustenance supersedes the material.
|
|
273.
|
● The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
|
Prov. 13:25;
18:20
Mark 7:18-22
Luke 4:4;
12:23
Romans 14:7
1st Cor. 6:13
Phil. 3:19
|
🚫
|
The heart of man returns to God humbled.
|
|
274.
|
● The belly has no ears
|
Prov. 15:17
Luke 4:4
John 4:24
1st Cor. 11:18-22,
24-30
Romans 14:17;
16:18
Phil. 3:19
|
🚫
|
Worship near to God in spirit open without expectation
rapt in gratitude for His mercy to redeem such as us.
|
|
275.
|
● Putting it in a nutshell
|
Titus 2:11-14
|
🚫
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God calls to each soul to return to Him.
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276.
|
● Eat drink and be merry
|
Proverbs 20:1
Ecclesiastes 2:24;
5:18;
8:15;
9:7
|
✔
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Engaging meals are most preciously illuminating.
|
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277.
|
● Make a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day -
Teach him to make a fire, he'll be warm forever
|
Proverbs 19:20;
22:6
Isaiah 40:14
1st Thessalonians 4:11
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🚫
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Blessed are those who use understanding
as a means for living.
|
|
278.
|
● Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day -
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
|
1st Cor. 3:1-3
Luke 6:40
Hebrews 5:12-14
1st Peter 2:2
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🚫
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Search out your own salvation.
To know Him is to want Him.
|
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279.
|
● Man does not live by bread alone
|
Deut. 8:3
Matthew 4:4
Luke 4:4
John 6:27,
51,
58
|
✔
|
We each need to digest the life of Jesus.
|
|
280.
|
● Health is better than wealth
|
Prov.3:7-8;
4:20-22;
13:7
Lk.12:20-21
1stTim.4:8
3rdJn.1:2
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🚫
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Without spiritual health life's value is sickening.
|
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281.
|
● In the melting pot
|
Micah 3:2-3
Proverbs 17:3;
27:21
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🚫
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God waits for the noble birth of a soul’s character.
|
|
282.
|
● Too many cooks spoil the broth
|
Matthew 24:5;
24:11-13
Acts 20:29
1st Timothy 4:1-3
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🚫
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The ingredient of truth can be spoiled by self-seekers.
|
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283.
|
● From feast to famine
|
Genesis 41:29-30
Isaiah 3:1
Ezekiel 14:13
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🚫
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Trouble, trouble, thy name is misery.
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|
284.
|
● A feast for sore eyes
|
Psalm 13:3;
17:15
Proverbs 15:17
Matthew 6:22
Luke 18:42
Revelation 1:7;
7:17
|
🚫
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Faith is best served with certainty.
|
|
285.
|
● One man's meat is another man's poison
|
1st Corinthians 8:8-9,
13
Romans 14:21
|
🚫
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Resentment’s seed blossoms from
an insecure jealous accusing heart.
|
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286.
|
● One man’s loss is another man’s gain
|
Num. 31:32-35
Habakkuk 2:7
Job 3:20-21
Phil. 1:21;
3:7-8
|
🚫
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There is no gain in the loss of another.
|
|
287.
|
● Finders keepers, losers weepers
|
Proverbs 8:17
Luke 13:23-28
Acts 17:24-31
|
🚫
|
Find God or be left treasure-less.
|
|
288.
|
● It is more blessed to give than to receive
|
Acts 20:35
Mat. 5:7
James 2:13
Mark 10:21
Heb. 13:16
1st John 3:17
Luke 6:34-36
1st Peter 5:5
|
✔
|
It can be hard to receive what one has
been given. Give of yourself is the message.
|
|
289.
|
● The best things in life are free
|
Job 28:12-20;
32:8
Proverbs 3:13-17
Gal. 5:22-23
Eph.5:9;
3:17-19;
2:8-10
Is.55:1-2
Jn.4:14
1st Pet.3:4
|
🚫
|
Truth has value above cost.
Colors are a gift without charge.
|
|
290.
|
● The best things come in small packages
|
Job 12:11
Proverbs 19:6
1stCorinthians 12:4;
14:1
1st Peter 4:10
Hebrews 11:27
|
🚫
|
The best things are taken for granted and yet
a more excellent way is of that which is unseen.
|
|
291.
|
● The best us yet to come
|
1st Cor. 12:31;
14:1
2nd Cor. 12:2-5
Revelation 2:7
|
🚫
|
The heart of wisdom delivers
understanding above knowledge.
|
|
292.
|
● Money can't buy the best things in life
|
Job 28:12-15
Proverbs 8:14-19
Isaiah 55:1-2
Luke 12:15
|
🚫
|
A heart’s brilliance is but a priceless breath.
|
|
293.
|
● You can't buy happiness
|
Acts 8:20
Romans 14:17
Acts 3:6
|
🚫
|
True happiness transcends mortality.
|
|
294.
|
● A stone's throw away
|
Psalm 145:18
Luke 22:41
Romans 10:8
James 4:8
|
🚫
|
Closer is God than our own understanding.
|
|
295.
|
● The grass is greener
on the other side of the fence
|
1st Kings 18:5
Jer. 14:5-6
Psalm 59:15
Proverbs 1:19
|
🚫
|
Looking for more afar
misses that which is underfoot.
|
|
296.
|
● If you’re not content with what
you have right now, you never will be
|
Luke 12:15
Philippians 4:11
1st Timothy 6:8
Hebrews 13:5
|
🚫
|
A content spirit of love
heals even the greatest of fools.
|
|
297.
|
● Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed
|
Psalm 25:3;
146:3
Proverbs 10:28
Luke 6:34-37
Romans 8:25
|
🚫
|
Eagerly helping others is our path to heaven.
|
|
298.
|
● Eternally grateful
|
Psalms 79:13
Ep. 5:20
1st Thess. 5:16-18
Col. 3:17
|
🚫
|
The well of peace dwells in the tower of thankfulness.
|
|
299.
|
● Be thankful for what you’ve got
|
Luke 3:14
Phil. 4:11
1st Tim. 6:8
Hebrews 13:5
Col. 3:15
|
🚫
|
Thankfulness is key to peace of mind.
|
|
300.
|
● Never satisfied
|
Psalm 59:15
Prov. 17:24;
27:20;
30:15-16
Ec. 5:10
Isaiah 55:2;
56:11
Luke 7:31-35
1st Timothy 6:9
|
✔
|
Such an escape, satisfaction in its’ brief encounters.
|
|
301.
|
● The more you get the more you want
|
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Isaiah 56:11
Luke 12:15
Ephesians 4:19
|
🚫
|
Endless desires to possess deepens shallow returns.
|
|
302.
|
● Money is the root of all evil
|
1st Tim. 6:9-10
Ec. 5:10;
7:12;
10:19
Rev. 3:17
|
🚫
|
Not to Love God first is the root of all evil.
|
|
303.
|
● A fool and his money are soon parted
|
Proverbs 14:18;
21:20;
23:5;
26:12
|
🚫
|
Not only fools lose money quickly.
|
|
304.
|
● Buyer beware
|
Deuteronomy. 25:13-16
Proverbs 11:1,
18;
20:23
Isaiah 21:2
Hosea 12:7
Micah 6:11
|
🚫
|
Shrewd cheaters lay in wait
feasting on every corner.
|
|
305.
|
● Easy come, easy go
|
Gen. 3:19
Prov. 13:22;
21:17;
23:5;
27:24
Hebrews 10:26-27
|
🚫
|
The gift of true spirit slips from the insincere.
|
|
306.
|
● Save it for a rainy day
|
Gen. 41:35-36
Ec. 11:6
Mat. 6:19-20
Heb. 11:7
Jm. 1:21
|
🚫
|
Gathering spiritual strength will bear out
over what comes vainly to all departing living dust.
|
|
307.
|
● Time is money
|
Psalm 49:10
Proverbs 11:4
Luke 19:23
|
🚫
|
Time's true value will reveal wealth beyond cost.
|
|
308.
|
● Money talks
|
Ecclesiastes 7:12;
10:19
Psalms 49:6-7
Acts 8:20
|
🚫
|
Money solves countless troubles
~ yet fails to purchase life.
|
|
309.
|
● Money is a good servant, but a bad master
|
Ecclesiastes 7:12;
10:19
Luke 12:15
1st Timothy 6:10
|
🚫
|
Money blesses the thankful soul and curses the monger.
|
|
310.
|
● The quickest way to lose a friend
is to lend him money
|
Ps.37:26
Prov.6:1-3;
17:18
Mat.5:42
Luke 6:30-36
|
🚫
|
Mercy triumphs over possession.
|
|
311.
|
● Money doesn't grow on trees
|
Prov.23:4-5
Ec.4:6;
5:10,
12-14
Acts 8:20
2ndThess.3:10
|
🚫
|
No one is rich where greed tramples the poor.
|
|
312.
|
● Riches have wings
|
Proverbs 23:5
Ec. 2:18-19
Luke 12:34
1st Tim. 6:7
|
✔
|
Infinite wealth freely holds an eternal spark of life.
|
|
313.
|
● Don't count your chickens before they hatch
|
Luke 12:16-21
Is. 56:11
Job 1:21
1st Tim. 6:7
Col. 3:5
|
🚫
|
Uncontrolled passion to possess leaves one empty.
|
|
314.
|
● Don't put all your eggs in one basket
|
Ps. 119:36
Luke 12:15-21
2nd Peter 2:14
John 3:31
|
🚫
|
Spiritual investments rise beyond the earth.
|
|
315.
|
● A nest egg
|
Psalm 39:6;
73:12
Matthew 6:19-20
Luke 9:58
James 1:11
|
🚫
|
The chicken came before the egg, DNA before protein,
God came before man; Find that in Him is all treasure.
|
|
316.
|
● A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
|
Proverbs 15:16-17
Ecclesiastes 4:6;
9:4
Matthew 6:34
|
🚫
|
Possess what you have.
|
|
317.
|
● Kill two birds with one stone
|
Acts 18:4
Philippians 4:12
Titus 1:9
|
🚫
|
One’s thrust must be larger than one single fear.
|
|
318.
|
● Don't put the cart before the horse
|
Proverbs 28:22
Luke 14:28-30
|
🚫
|
Foundation builds surety.
|
|
319.
|
● You can lead a horse to water
but you can't make it drink
|
Ps. 32:9
Luke 13:15
Acts 24:24-25
Luke 16:31
John 12:42
Ex. 32:9
Isaiah 29:13
Zechariah 7:11
|
🚫
|
Stubborn hearts remain alone.
|
|
320.
|
● Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
|
Exodus 20:20
John 3:16
Romans 11:29
2nd Cor. 9:7
|
🚫
|
God has given us the truth of living.
|
|
321.
|
● Smart as a horse
|
Isaiah 1:3
Psalms 32:9
Psalms 33:17
|
🚫
|
Knowledge does not declare intelligence.
|
|
322.
|
● Stubborn as a mule
|
Psalm 32:9
|
🚫
|
Ignorance and opinion can lead one astray.
|
|
323.
|
● Dumb as an ox
|
Exodus 21:28-34
Psalms 32:9
|
🚫
|
Sporadic impulse births chaos.
|
|
324.
|
● A penny wise and a pound foolish
|
Ec 4:8;
5:13
Prov. 11:24,
26;
13:7
Mat. 6:19-21
|
🚫
|
Hoarding makes the meek suffer.
|
|
325.
|
● Rob Peter to pay Paul
|
2nd Corinthians 11:8-9
Phil. 4:15-17
Ep. 4:28
|
🚫
|
There is no honor in cheating the truth.
|
|
326.
|
● Fleecing the flock
|
Mic.3:5
Mat.7:15
Acts 20:29-30
Rom.16:17-18
2ndPet.2:1-3
|
🚫
|
Greedy cowards lack strength of merciful character.
|
|
327.
|
● He who pays the piper calls the tunes
|
Proverbs 22:7
Matthew 10:24;
20:25-26
|
🚫
|
The Creator designed love as payment.
|
|
328.
|
● He that wills the end wills the means
|
Proverbs 3:5-6;
27:18
Jeremiah 29:13
|
🚫
|
Waiting is God’s creation to redeem souls.
|
|
329.
|
● The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
|
Psalm 102:25
Prov. 8:15-16;
22:7
Ep. 6:12
Romans 13:1
|
🚫
|
God’s patience is supreme.
|
|
330.
|
● The upper hand
|
Exodus 17:11
|
🚫
|
Strength can only be handed out by God.
People joining together overwhelms those divided.
|
|
331.
|
● Neither a borrower nor a lender be
|
Exodus 22:25
Deuteronomy 28:12
Psalm 15:5
Matthew 5:42
Acts 3:6
Rom. 8:12-13
1st Timothy 6:17-19
|
🚫
|
We are all indebted to our Lord Creator
for the granting of independent sparks of life.
|
|
332.
|
● Worry is the interest paid
by those who borrow trouble
|
Ps.88:3-7;
143:3-4
Mat.6:25,
34
Mark 4:19
Luke 10:40-42
|
🚫
|
Worries trouble is a faithless heart.
|
|
333.
|
● There are two sides to a coin
|
Prov. 14:12;
18:17;
21:2
1st Kings 3:23-27
Mat. 22:21
|
🚫
|
Right and wrong, biased by us, judged by God.
|
|
334.
|
● Two sides to every story
|
Proverbs 18:17
|
🚫
|
Simple truth is more often obscured by one.
|
|
335.
|
● If it's not one thing it's another
|
Gen. 8:22
Rom. 5:3-4
Mat. 5:11-12
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
We live in a universe of constant change.
|
|
336.
|
● Like looking for a needle in a haystack
|
Proverbs 3:13-15
Luke 13:24
Matthew 7:13-14;
13:45-46
|
🚫
|
We all search for the chord of truth.
|
|
337.
|
● Stop, look and listen
|
Job 42:5
Isaiah 42:18;
44:18
Mark 13:33-37
Matthew 13:14-17
1stCorinthians 16:13
|
🚫
|
God is patiently waiting in front of us all.
|
|
338.
|
● Look before you leap
|
Proverbs 4:25-27
Matthew 6:33;
7:15
1st John 4:1
Col. 2:8
Luke 12:15
2nd Peter 3:17
Ephesians 5:17
|
🚫
|
Understanding and abiding in God's will
keeps one safe from pursuing mistakes.
|
|
339.
|
● Take a flying leap
|
Matthew 4:5-7
Luke 6:22-23
|
🚫
|
Though tempted and rejected, rejoice in God.
|
|
340.
|
● Leap of faith
|
Genesis 22:9-12
1st Samuel 17:45-49
Daniel 6:16
Matthew 4:19;
8:8;
14:29-30
Luke 1:41-44
Hebrews 11:1
|
🚫
|
Faith is always something more than self; A belief
establishing certainty without apparent cause.
|
|
341.
|
● Leap for joy
|
Luke 1:44
Luke 6:22-23
|
✔
|
God over man reaps endless joy.
|
|
342.
|
● Happy as a clam
|
Ps. 97:11;
126:3;
144:13-15;
146:5
Prov. 15:13;
15:15;
17:22
Isaiah 29:19
John 15:11
Acts 3:6-8
Romans 14:17,
22
|
🚫
|
Peace reaches from inside when joy subdues misery.
|
|
343.
|
● Laughter is the shortest distance
between two people
|
Proverbs 14:13;
17:22
Ecclesiastes 7:3,
6
|
🚫
|
Sorrow draws from the deepest corners of a soul.
|
|
344.
|
● Laughter is the best medicine
|
Proverbs 17:22
|
🚫
|
Abounding joy fills the soul with healing light.
|
|
345.
|
● Patience is the best medicine
|
Mat.24:13
2nd Pet.1:6
Rom.5:3-4
Gal.6:9
Jas.1:2-4;
5:7-8
|
🚫
|
Waiting is a two way street.
|
|
346.
|
● All (good) things come to he who waits
|
Ps.27:14;
62:5
Prov.27:18
Ec.9:2-3
Mat.24:13
Heb.3:6
|
🚫
|
All wait for life’s immortal emancipation.
|
|
347.
|
● To the bitter end
|
Prov.14:10
Mat.24:13
Heb.3:6-8;
11:27;
12:14-15
Jm.5:11
|
🚫
|
Let bitterness end or it will be the end of you.
|
|
348.
|
● Patience of Job
|
James 5:11
Ecclesiastes 7:8
|
✔
|
We wait for eternal life, awake in no pain.
|
|
349.
|
● Patience is a virtue
|
Galatians 6:9
1st Peter 2:20
2nd Peter 1:5-8
Luke 8:15
James 1:2-4
1st Tim. 6:11
Phil. 4:8
|
🚫
|
God sees patience as a noble quality.
|
|
350.
|
● Virtue is its own reward
|
Job 34:10-11
Prov. 10:2;
11:18
Ec. 9:5
Mat. 16:27
1st Cor. 3:14
Ep. 2:10
Phil. 4:8
Rev. 22:12
|
🚫
|
There is no reward without virtue.
|
|
351.
|
● Go the extra mile
|
Matthew 5:41
|
✔
|
Passion to please others has
rewards beyond the ordinary.
|
|
352.
|
● Hair-raising
|
Job 4:15
|
🚫
|
The essence of spirit rises to be real or not.
|
|
353.
|
● Out of the blue
|
Genesis 19:24
2nd Kings 2:11
Job 22:12;
38:8-13
Psalms 135:7
Amos 9:6
Nahum 1:3
Acts 22:6
|
🚫
|
God's colors rain past our perception.
|
|
354.
|
● Pushing the envelope
|
Psalm 139:6
Proverbs 13:19
2nd Cor. 8:3
|
🚫
|
Reaching beyond ability advances true greatness.
|
|
355.
|
● Over the top
|
Deut.4:39
Ps.40:5;
62:11
Mark 7:37
John 21:25
Col.1:15
|
🚫
|
God will lift us beyond the top of the sky.
|
|
356.
|
● Go out on a limb
|
Matthew 13:31-32
Luke 19:2-6
|
🚫
|
The inspiration to extend faith always plows surprise.
|
|
357.
|
● If at first you don't succeed try again
|
Rom. 3:23
Jm. 1:2;
5:16
Lk. 9:62;
17:3-4
Phil. 2:16
|
🚫
|
Endure the eternal climb of life.
|
|
358.
|
● O ye, of little faith
|
Matthew 6:30;
8:26;
14:31;
16:8
Luke 12:27-28
|
✔
|
Excuse has no champion.
|
|
359.
|
● You never know what you can do till you try
|
Job 23:10
Psalms 18:32;
26:2
Rom. 8:13;
12:2
James 5:11
|
🚫
|
Remaining subjugated
steals the strength of independence.
|
|
360.
|
● Whatever is worth doing at all
is worth doing well
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Romans 12:11
Colossians 3:23
|
🚫
|
Doing with all your might is right.
|
|
361.
|
● If you want a thing done right, do it yourself
|
2nd Corinthians 6:17-18;
7:1
James 4:17
1st John 3:3
|
🚫
|
Only selflessness establishes one’s heart excellence.
|
|
362.
|
● You have to crawl before you can walk
|
Ps.86:11;
131:2
Prov.2:20;
3:23
Mat.18:3
1stCor.3:2-3;
7:17;
13:11;
14:20
Ep.5:15-17
Rom.6:4
2ndCor.5:7
1stThess.4:1
1stPet.2:2
Heb.5:12-13
2ndJohn 1:6
Jm.4:8
|
🚫
|
Open hearts render time to grow.
Knowledge of Him brings understanding.
Wisdom is our courageous ability to apply His truths.
|
|
363.
|
● Learn to walk before you run
|
John 15:4-5
Ephesians 2:10
1st Cor. 9:24-26
Hebrews 12:1
|
🚫
|
Actions through knowledge confirm genuineness.
|
|
364.
|
● One step forward, two steps backward
|
Ps.81:11-12
Prov.16:9
Jer.7:24;
10:23
Hos.2:7
Luke 14:30
|
🚫
|
There is no path without the Lord’s direction.
|
|
365.
|
● Life has its little ups and downs
|
Psalm 30:5;
90:6
Proverbs 14:13
Ecclesiastes 3:3
Luke 6:21
|
🚫
|
Joy is genuine sorrow that it may not last.
|
|
366.
|
● Variety is the spice of life
|
1st Cor. 12:5-6;
14:10;
15:41
Ps. 147:4
Luke 12:7
Mat. 13:47
|
🚫
|
Wonderfully diversity is the eternal nature of God.
|
|
367.
|
● Take it with a grain of salt
|
Luke 12:29
Philippians 4:6
1st Peter 5:7
|
🚫
|
Go with what God has given.
|
|
368.
|
● Salt of the Earth
|
Matthew 5:13
Mark 9:50
Luke 14:34-35
|
✔
|
Spirit must have spice (flavor) for life!
|
|
369.
|
● Practice makes perfect
|
Isaiah 28:10
James 1:25
1st John 3:10;
4:18
1st Peter 5:10
Hebrews 3:12-14
|
🚫
|
Extreme effort highlights excellence.
Supportive patterns are established benefiting all.
|
|
370.
|
● Jack of all trades, master of none
|
1st Chronicles 22:15
Proverbs 26:10
Ecclesiastes 2:20
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🚫
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Ever expanding capabilities can challenge focus.
|
|
371.
|
● Bigger is better
|
Numbers 26:54
James 3:4
Luke 12:16-21
|
🚫
|
Often the smallest part has the biggest value.
|
|
372.
|
● Bigger (larger) than life
|
Gen.28:12
Ps.31:19;
145:3;
147:4-5
Mat.18:4;
20:26
Tit.1:2
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🚫
|
God is greater than His creation.
|
|
373.
|
● Less is more
|
Prov.16:19;
25:7
Mat.18:4
Rom.12:3,
16
Phil.2:3
Heb.13:5
|
🚫
|
Observers see simply beauty in all.
|
|
374.
|
● Don’t give up the ship
|
Acts 27:31
James 5:11
Galatians 6:9
Revelation 3:11
1st Cor. 15:58
Phil. 3:13-14
James 5:7
|
🚫
|
The voyage home is won holding fast.
|
|
375.
|
● One day my ship will come in
|
Romans 8:25
2nd Corinthians 4:18
Hebrews 11:1
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🚫
|
Hope maintains unending assurance.
|
|
376.
|
● Either you sink or you swim
|
Psalms 69:14-15
Matthew 24:13
Acts 27:43-44
|
🚫
|
Confronting trials hones individual strength.
|
|
377.
|
● Fighting by tooth and nail
|
Psalm 56:2;
57:4
1st Corinthians 4:12
2nd Corinthians 1:8
|
🚫
|
Terrified by assaulting torrents, flesh clings on.
|
|
378.
|
● Hitting the nail on the head
|
Ec. 12:11
Prov. 29:18
1st Thess. 1:8-10
1st Timothy 4:13
|
🚫
|
Nothing can substitute for our One true living God.
|
|
379.
|
● The root of the matter
|
Job 19:28
John 1:1-3
Romans 11:16-18
|
✔
|
Do not deny God is the source of all.
|
|
380.
|
● Stand your ground
|
Judges 7:21
Job 41:33
Ps. 62:6
Jer. 17:7-8
1st Cor. 16:13
Ep. 6:10-18
Heb. 13:5-6
Acts 27:25
Rev. 3:11
|
🚫
|
Unwavering trust delivers fearless courage.
|
|
381.
|
● Common ground
|
Genesis 3:19
Psalm 44:25
Proverbs 22:2
Matthew 5:45
|
🚫
|
God will see each of us for who we are.
|
|
382.
|
● Hallowed ground
|
Exodus 3:5
Joshua 5:15
Ezekiel 36:23
Acts 7:33
|
✔
|
Holy is all holding Him in the presence of God.
|
|
383.
|
● Land of the free
|
Ezekiel 14:13-14,
20
John 8:32,
36
Roman 6:6-7;
8:2
Galatians 5:1
James 1:25
1stPeter 2:16
|
🚫
|
When those that expect freedom ignore decency,
freedom reduces to the tyrannical lost.
|
|
384.
|
● Bloom where you are planted
|
Jer. 17:7-8
1st Pet. 1:24
Psalms 103:15-16;
16:8-9
Isaiah 40:5-8
Joshua 24:15
Mat. 13:52
1st Cor.7:17
|
🚫
|
Be planted in the Lord throughout all your seasons.
|
|
385.
|
● Tall oaks from little acorns grow
|
Ec.12:1-5
1st Cor.13:11
Mark 4:31-32
Luke 13:18-19
|
🚫
|
Effort over time equates to accomplishment.
|
|
386.
|
● From small beginnings come great things
|
Gen.1:3
Prov.4:18
Ec.11:5
Mat.12:31-32;
17:20
1stPet.2:2
|
🚫
|
The origin of all began with His Word.
|
|
387.
|
● If (where) there is a will, there is a way
|
Ps.1:6;
119:27
Prov.9:6;
10:17;
15:24;
21:16
1stChron.28:9
Mat.7:13-14
John 4:34
2ndCor.8:12
|
🚫
|
The way will only be what the Lord allows.
|
|
388.
|
● Will power
|
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Matthew 26:41
John 5:30;
6:63
Luke 4:14
Romans 9:16
1st Thess. 5:19
2nd Tim. 1:7
James 1:12
|
🚫
|
Synonymous with will power is force of spirit.
Actions of spirit are shown in the nature of character.
|
|
389.
|
● Faith will move mountains
|
Matthew 17:20;
21:21
Mark 11:23
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
The misery of doubt curtails excellence beyond self.
All hold the sky in their hand.
|
|
390.
|
● Nothing worth having comes easy
|
Jg. 8:4
Ps. 128:2
Mat. 24:13
1stCor. 9:24-26
2ndCor. 4:8-10
Galatians 6:9
Phil. 3:13-14
Hebrews 12:1-3
1st Peter 5:10
|
🚫
|
Eternal life is seized by the excellence of character
in pursuit of obedience to observe His pure will.
|
|
391.
|
● Respect has to be earned
|
Heb. 12:9
Is. 42:5
Luke 19:11-27
Prov. 15:33
Rom. 2:10
|
🚫
|
Those who do not earn God’s respect shall perish.
|
|
392.
|
● As white as snow
|
Numbers 12:10
2nd Kings 5:27
Isaiah 1:18
Daniel 7:9
Matthew 28:3
Mark 9:3
Revelation 1:14
|
✔
|
The light of God will heal us in fearless judgment.
|
|
393.
|
● Beauty is only skin deep
|
Proverbs 31:30
1st Samuel 16:7
2nd Corinthians 10:7
1st Peter 3:4
John 6:63
James 1:21-25
|
🚫
|
True beauty is in the depths of a God fearing soul.
|
|
394.
|
● Age before beauty
|
Leviticus 19:32
Proverbs 20:29
Matthew 15:4-6
Mark 7:11-12
Ephesians 6:2
1st Timothy 5:1-2
|
🚫
|
The callous abandonment of the elderly is an
abomination to God, and the disgrace of a people.
|
|
395.
|
● Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
|
Ps. 50:2
Prov. 11:22
Ec. 3:11
1st Pet. 3:4
1st Samuel 16:7
Ezekiel 16:15
Song of Solomon 1:15;
6:10
|
🚫
|
Passion defines what is gorgeous or not.
One man’s passion is another man’s disgust.
|
|
396.
|
● Clothes don’t make the man
|
Mat.6:25-31;
7:15;
10:16;
28:3;
3:4
Luke 7:23-26
2ndCor.5:1-4
1st Tim. 5:24;
6:8
Jm. 2:2-4
1st Pet. 5:5
|
🚫
|
Spirit wears eternally more
~ Adorning that which radiates gloriously.
|
|
397.
|
● Appearances are (can be) deceptive
|
Matthew 7:15
John 7:24
2nd Peter 2:1-3
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
Trust is betrayed to often with a kiss.
|
|
398.
|
● All flash and no substance
|
Matthew 6:5,
6:16;
23:4-7,
23:16-17
Mark 12:38-40
Luke 11:43-47;
20:46-47
|
🚫
|
False leaders thirst for glory oppressing the meek.
|
|
399.
|
● A picture is worth a thousand words
|
Psalm 19:1
Mark 4:30
Acts 17:29
1st John 3:2
|
🚫
|
No picture can color our existence to come.
|
|
400.
|
● All that glitters is not gold
|
Joshua 7:20-25
Mat. 7:15;
23:5-8;
23:9
Luke 20:46-47
|
🚫
|
Nothing materialistic holds permanence.
|
|
401.
|
● Silence is golden
|
Ecc. 4:6
1st Peter 3:4
Prov. 17:1
Ps. 46:10
Is. 26:3
|
🚫
|
Precious is deep quiet peace.
|
|
402.
|
● Quietness is a great treasure
|
Proverbs 15:6
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Isaiah 32:17
1st Peter 3:4
|
🚫
|
True treasure touches the moment.
|
|
403.
|
● Still waters run deep
|
Psalm 1:3;
23:2
Prov. 18:4;
20:5
Jer. 17:8
Rev. 7:17
|
🚫
|
Quite seeking souls hold enormous wells of truth.
|
|
404.
|
● Who seeks shall find
|
Proverbs 8:17
Matthew 7:7
Luke 11:9
Hebrews 11:6
|
✔
|
Without seeking God’s divine truth vision is hidden.
|
|
405.
|
● If you want peace, you must prepare for war
|
Ec. 10:4
Ezekiel 38:7
James 4:1
1st Peter 2:11-12
|
🚫
|
The battle of peace is with
one's own heart choosing correctly.
|
|
406.
|
● Peace be with you
|
Judges 6:23
Psalm 122:8
John 20:19
Romans 12:18
|
✔
|
Peace is joy of spirit.
|
|
407.
|
● Peace offering
|
Leviticus 3:6
|
✔
|
There is no peace without genuine desire to be pure.
Pursuing peace with God in His ways delivers eternity.
|
|
408.
|
● Hold out the olive branch
|
Genesis 8:11
Hosea 14:6
Matthew 5:9
|
🚫
|
Peace is the path to God.
|
|
409.
|
● Let bygones be bygones
|
Proverbs 20:22
Matthew 6:14-15
Romans 12:19-20
|
🚫
|
Anger can defeat one in self oblivion void of God.
|
|
410.
|
● Turn the other cheek
|
Matthew 5:39
|
✔
|
Standing for the glory of honor defeats the despicable.
|
|
411.
|
● What's done is done
|
Ps. 33:4
Ec. 8:17;
9:3
John 19:30
Rom. 5:12
Rev. 21:6
|
🚫
|
The past is lost to permanence, NOW is given to live.
|
|
412.
|
● The powers that be
|
Romans 13:1-2
Ephesians 6:12
1st Peter 2:13-16
|
🚫
|
The best that it is is.
|
|
413.
|
● To live in the past, in that way lies madness
|
Ec. 7:10;
9:3
2nd Corinthians 5:17
Philippians 3:13-14
|
🚫
|
The past is dead, NOW is building the future.
|
|
414.
|
● Cool as a cucumber
|
Psalm 26:11;
119:165
Phil. 1:28
Heb. 13:6
James 3:2
|
🚫
|
Faith increases the glory to ably stand.
|
|
415.
|
● Moderation in all things
|
Genesis 4:7
Ecclesiastes 7:16
1st Cor. 9:25
Philippians 4:11-13
James 3:2
Galatians 4:18
|
✔
|
Temperance is the salt of the soul.
Zeal is the spice of our lives.
|
|
416.
|
● Make due with what you have
|
Mark 4:24
Luke 14:28
Phil. 4:11
1st Tim. 4:16
Heb. 2:1
|
🚫
|
A still thankful heart finds tranquility.
|
|
417.
|
● For everything there is a season
|
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Romans 8:28
|
✔
|
All that is genuine will return to God.
|
|
418.
|
● The sky is always darkest (hour) before the dawn
|
Jg. 16:22
Job 7:4
Is. 58:10
John 16:20-21
2ndPet. 1:19
|
🚫
|
Lift yourself, grow to God’s star of light for life.
|
|
419.
|
● Every cloud has a silver lining
|
Job 37:16;
38:37
Psalm 36:5;
57:10;
77:17
Isaiah 44:22
|
🚫
|
God looks for spirit light in the face of our afflictions.
|
|
420.
|
● Clouds gather before a storm
|
Matthew 16:3
Luke 12:54
|
🚫
|
Turmoil encircles a challenged world of desires.
Most see trouble coming yet miss blessings abounding.
|
|
421.
|
● Without a shadow of a doubt
|
Matthew 17:20;
21:21
Mark 11:23
Luke 17:6
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
Doubt is the poison that destroys trust.
|
|
422.
|
● History repeats itself
|
Proverbs 26:11
Ecclesiastes 1:8-11;
7:10
|
🚫
|
We live, we die, we return to God.
|
|
423.
|
● This too shall pass
|
Ps. 23:4;
138:7;
144:4;
102:11
1stChron.29:15
Jm.4:14
Ec.3:1-8
Mat.24:6-8
2nd Cor. 4:17-18
1st Cor. 5:9-11
1st Jo. 2:17
2nd Tim. 2:3
Heb. 11:32-34
2nd Pe. 3:10
|
🚫
|
Agony is universal until wickedness
vanishes away upon final judgment.
The passing of life closes all storms.
|
|
424.
|
● To weep is to make less the depth of grief
|
Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
Matthew 5:4
2nd Corinthians 1:7
|
🚫
|
Grief is a hole with no bottom.
Piercing aches pour woes over intimate loves lost.
|
|
425.
|
● Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away
|
2nd Samuel 12:23
Psalms 42:11;
88:6
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Matthew 11:16-19;
23:4
1st Thess. 4:13
Revelation 7:17
|
🚫
|
Countless unseen tears paint humanity.
The petrification of pain seizes all feeling.
|
|
426.
|
● We need never be ashamed of our tears
|
Psalm 6:6,
8;
126:5
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Jeremiah 9:1,
18-19
John 16:20
Hebrews 12:17
|
🚫
|
Sorrow haunts the piercings of the heart.
Tears mingle in both shame and glory.
|
|
427.
|
● Drown in one's sorrows
|
Job 3:24-26;
6:4;
15:20
Psalms 32:4;
35:14;
38:6-8;
69:20
|
🚫
|
Self-pity is a painful sinking of spirit.
|
|
428.
|
● Water under the bridge
|
Ps. 51:3
Prov. 28:13
Luke 9:62
Phil. 3:13
1st John 1:9
|
🚫
|
Our present is molded by an indelible past.
|
|
429.
|
● Never say never
|
Ex.5:2
Ps.10:13
Prov.30:15-16
Mat.16:25
Jn.8:51
Phil.3:13
|
🚫
|
Fools doubt God’s eternal power for life.
|
|
430.
|
● Expect the unexpected
|
Matthew 24:44;
25:13
Luke 12:40;
21:34
Acts 27:25
Romans 8:9;
14:11
Hebrews 10:26-27
|
🚫
|
Only time reveals what is yet to be.
However unanticipated we will all return to God.
|
|
431.
|
● Let well enough alone
|
1st Corinthians 15:58
Jude 1:20-23
|
🚫
|
God does not call us to indifference.
|
|
432.
|
● Leave well enough alone
|
Job 10:20
Proverbs 24:19
Acts 17:30
|
🚫
|
God now commands us to come to Him.
|
|
433.
|
● Enough is enough
|
Exodus 9:28
1st Kings 19:4
2nd Chronicles 36:16
|
🚫
|
Disgust ends in life’s exasperation.
|
|
434.
|
● Don't make waves
|
Psalm 89-9
Psalm 107-29
James 1:5-6
2nd Peter 3:17
|
🚫
|
One enters Heaven peacefully.
|
|
435.
|
● Don’t rain on my parade
|
Job 19:2
Psalm 10:6;
78:53
Matthew 5:45;
26:5
Acts 24:24-25
Philippians 2:4
2nd Peter 2:8
|
🚫
|
The parade of righteousness will clear the storm.
|
|
436.
|
● Take the wind out of the sails
|
Job 30:16
Psalms 22:14;
103:15-16
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Matthew 14:29-32;
22:5
|
🚫
|
Without seriousness for heavenly truth, vibrancy is
crushed. The wealth of a soul is empty without the
treasures of God’s purpose. Time is the wind of God.
|
|
437.
|
● Don't make me your scapegoat
|
Leviticus 16:8-10,
16:21-22,
16:26
Isaiah 53:11
Hebrews 9:28
|
🚫
|
No one desires what is most undesirable; Christ
took upon our sins so that we may obtain salvation.
|
|
438.
|
● Flies in the ointment
|
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Galatians 5:9
|
✔
|
A little bad spoils the whole.
|
|
439.
|
● One bad apple (egg) spoils the whole bunch
|
Ec. 9:18
Rom. 5:12-14
Mat.7:15
Jude 1:3-4
2ndTim.3:1-5
|
🚫
|
Evil floats to the top oppressing all below.
|
|
440.
|
● Sly as a fox
|
Job 5:13
Mat. 7:15
Rom. 16:17-18
Ep. 4:14
Col. 2:8
|
🚫
|
Wickedness prowls the corridors of our hearts.
|
|
441.
|
● Heart of stone
|
Job 41:24
|
✔
|
Conniving hearts bear no warmth for others.
|
|
442.
|
● It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good
|
Isaiah 64:6
Ephesians 4:14
Hebrews 13:9
James 1:5-6
|
🚫
|
For all that is flesh siphons to sin.
|
|
443.
|
● An idle mind is the devil's workshop
|
Proverbs 10:26;
18:9;
19:15;
21:25;
26:13
1st Peter 5:8
1st Timothy 5:13
2nd Thessalonians 3:11
|
🚫
|
Fear is the nail that buries the weak.
|
|
444.
|
● Lazy Bones
|
Prov. 6:9;
12:24;
15:19;
19:15,
19:24;
24:33-34;
26:13-16
Ezekiel 37:1-6
|
🚫
|
Courage escapes a lazy man.
|
|
445.
|
● Good for nothing
|
Proverbs 20:14
Matthew 5:13
|
✔
|
Void of spiritual inclination presents worthlessness.
|
|
446.
|
● The seven deadly sins
Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Vanity, Envy, Wrath
|
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Proverbs 6:16-19
Galatians 5:19-21
Romans 3:23
1st Corinthians 6:9-10
James 2:10
|
🚫
|
Any sin is deadly.
|
|
447.
|
● Green with envy
|
Psalm 10:3;
59:15;
73:2-3
James 3:14-16
|
🚫
|
Envy is external torment with no inner calm.
|
|
448.
|
● Better to be envied than pitied
|
Ps. 86:5;
103:13
Prov. 22:9;
28:6
Ec. 4:4
Mat. 18:33
|
🚫
|
Mercy given is needful for all.
|
|
449.
|
● Guilty as sin.
|
John 8:7
Romans 3:23
|
🚫
|
Sin: the scourge in life yielding death.
|
|
450.
|
● A nest of vipers
|
Isaiah 59:4-5
Luke 3:7
Matthew 3:7;
12:34;
23:33
|
🚫
|
Nestled in the whole of the forest,
Vipers collectively consume all light.
|
|
451.
|
● There is no rest for the wicked
|
Isaiah 48:22;
57:20-21
Jude 1:11-13
Rev. 14:11;
20:10
|
✔
|
The wicked are a whirlwind.
|
|
452.
|
● No rest for the weary
|
Psalm 69:3;
90:10;
109:5
Job 7:4-7
Galatians 6:9
|
🚫
|
Agony accompanies tireless efforts of man.
|
|
453.
|
● Give the devil his due
|
Prov.17:10;
19:18;
3:12
Rom.12:19-21
Mat.18:21-22
Gal.6:1
|
🚫
|
Correction is best given patiently in love.
|
|
454.
|
● Face the music
|
Jer.17:10;
32:19
Mat.12:36;
16:27
Luke 8:17
Rom.2:6;
14:12
Gal. 6:7-8
1st Cor. 3:13
2nd Cor. 5:10
Rev. 2:23;
20:12;
22:12
|
🚫
|
It is what has played upon the heart
that will sing one’s fate.
|
|
455.
|
● You've made your bed, now lie in it
|
Psalm 139:8
Prov. 26:27
Job 19:4
Jer. 31:30
Galatians 6:5-7
Romans 14:12
James 1:12
|
🚫
|
Our life is who we are.
God does not accept quitters.
|
|
456.
|
● Too much too little too late
|
Matthew 25:1-13
Luke 16:19-31
|
🚫
|
Put off God to your own demise.
|
|
457.
|
● Who begins too much accomplishes little
|
Proverbs 14:16
Luke 14:28-33
|
🚫
|
The path to heaven is to eagerly sacrifice your all.
|
|
458.
|
● Don’t have too many irons in the fire
|
Lk.14:28-30
1stJohn 2:16
Jm.4:4
2ndTim.3:2-5
1stCor.15:34
|
🚫
|
Take hold and choose your irons carefully.
|
|
459.
|
● You can run but you can't hide
|
Prov.15:3
Ps.33:13-15;
38:9;
139:7-12
Ec.12:14
Mk.4:22
Lk.12:2
Rom.2:16
Heb.4:13
2ndChron.16:9
Jer.23:24
|
🚫
|
God is all knowing.
|
|
460.
|
● What is done in the dark will come to the light
|
Ps.90:8
Ec.12:14
Mark 4:22
Lk.8:17
1st Cor.4:5
Ep.5:8
|
🚫
|
All living rivers return to God who made them.
|
|
461.
|
● Garbage in, garbage out
|
Job 15:34-35
Mark 7:18-23
1st Cor. 5:6;
15:33
Titus 1:15
|
🚫
|
Filth surrounds the darkness of evil.
|
|
462.
|
● Swallow hook, line, and sinker
|
Matthew 6:24;
7:15;
16:6,
11-12
Luke 12:1-2,
15
Colossians 2:8
1st Timothy 4:1
1st John 2:15;
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
One’s passion defines purpose of heart.
Loving earthly possessions can quash a free spirit.
|
|
463.
|
● Bad company destroys good morals
|
1st Corinthians 15:33
|
🚫
|
Accompaniments direct character.
|
|
464.
|
● What goes around comes around
|
Prov. 12:26;
22:24-25
Ec. 1:6-7
1stCor. 15:33
Gal. 5:9
|
🚫
|
Associations define us.
|
|
465.
|
● Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
|
Ep. 4:29
Col. 4:6
1st Thess. 5:11
1st Tim. 4:16
|
🚫
|
It is good to pursue goodness for goodness's sake.
|
|
466.
|
● Birds of a feather flock together
|
Prov.11:21;
16:5
1st Cor.5:6-8;
15:33
Phil.3:17
1stPet.5:2-3
|
🚫
|
People gather where their desires guide them.
|
|
467.
|
● For the birds
|
Ec. 12:3-5
Prov. 7:23
Jer. 16:4;
34:20
Rev. 18:2
|
✔
|
Scavenge for the way before age cripples capacity.
|
|
468.
|
● Bird brain
|
Psalm 73:22;
92:5-6
Prov. 1:22;
27:8
Mat. 6:26
|
🚫
|
Mindless are those who snub God.
|
|
469.
|
● Free as a bird
|
Luke 12:27-28
John 8:36
Romans 6:6-7
Galatians 5:1
James 1:25
1st Peter 2:15-16
|
🚫
|
Freedom is an act of nature given by God.
|
|
470.
|
● As the crow flies
|
Job 28:5-7
Psalms 104:10-12;
11:1;
139:7;
90:10
Obadiah 1:4
Acts 1:12
|
🚫
|
No matter the distance or length of time,
everywhere straight ahead, all lines lead to God.
|
|
471.
|
● Paybacks are tough
|
Nahum 1:2-3
Rom. 12:19
Heb. 10:26-27
2nd Thess. 1:8
|
🚫
|
God’s wrath will be done.
|
|
472.
|
● Fool me once, shame on you;
Fool me twice, shame on me.
|
2nd Corinthians 4:1-7
1st Timothy 2:13-14
|
🚫
|
Destroyer of peace, Satan is the deceiver.
|
|
473.
|
● Give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile
|
Job 24:9-10
Is.56:11
Rom.16:18
2ndPet.2:3
Jm.1:15
|
🚫
|
Unrestrained desire void of empathy plows ruin.
|
|
474.
|
● Rules are made to be broken
|
Exodus 16:25-28
Matthew 23:9
Romans 3:20
Colossians 2:18
1st Timothy 4:1-3
1st John 4:6
|
🚫
|
Our inability to obey is exposed in natural sin.
|
|
475.
|
● Cheaters never prosper
|
Job 5:12
Ps.73:18
Prov.11:18;
28:13
1stCor.6:9-10;
15:50
|
🚫
|
No one can cheat God from Heaven.
|
|
476.
|
● Quitters never prosper
|
Matthew 25:24-29
2nd Thessalonians 3:10
|
🚫
|
Disappointed with nothing as marrow sucked dry.
|
|
477.
|
● Quit while you are ahead
|
1st Cor. 9:24-27
Phil. 3:14
2nd Timothy 4:7
Hebrews 12:1
|
🚫
|
Quitters hold the hopeless misery death offers.
|
|
478.
|
● You are your own worst enemy
|
1st Cor. 3:18-19
Prov. 3:7;
5:22
Jeremiah 17:9
1st John 1:8
James 3:2;
3:13-16
|
🚫
|
Overcoming the enemies from within
is found in submission to God.
|
|
479.
|
● It is a wicked web we weave
|
Job 8:13-15
Prov. 24:8-9
Is. 59:5-6
Jer. 2:19;
9:8;
17:9
|
🚫
|
Lurking desperation hides anticipation for more.
|
|
480.
|
● Vicious circle
|
Deut. 28:50
Dan. 8:23
Psalms 37:8
Prov. 21:16
1st Corinthians 5:10
2nd Peter 2:8
1st John 5:19
|
🚫
|
Evil continuously spins torture as we live.
Democracy destroys liberty for a standing republic.
|
|
481.
|
● The Devil looks after his own
|
Matthew 12:26-30
1st Pet.5:8
|
🚫
|
Self seeking connives against all else.
|
|
482.
|
● The Devil made me do it
|
Mat. 4:3-11;
15:19
1st Cor. 10:13
Gal. 5:16-18
2nd Pet. 2:19
|
🚫
|
God has given all free power to choose.
|
|
483.
|
● Better the devil you know
than the devil you don’t know
|
Gen. 3:22
Prov. 10:24
Ep. 5:11
1st Cor. 10:20
Gal. 6:8
|
🚫
|
Humble yourself to find yourself.
|
|
484.
|
● The devil is in the details
|
Gen. 31:38-41
1st Kings 6:38;
7:1
Job 8:8;
38:4
Ec. 12:12
John 2:20
Luke 11:42
2nd Cor. 11:24-28
2nd Pet. 3:14-16
|
🚫
|
Great deeds can only come through diligence.
|
|
485.
|
● Pain in the rear
|
Proverbs 21:9;
21:19;
26:21;
27:15
|
🚫
|
Annoyance for all dwells in those full of contempt.
|
|
486.
|
● Fly off the handle
|
Job 39:24
Proverbs 14:17,
29;
26:21;
29:22
Ec. 7:9
|
🚫
|
Rage devours the meek consumed in tears.
|
|
487.
|
● Hot tempered (headed)
|
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Proverbs 14:17
|
🚫
|
The heat of anger’s darkness devourers the light.
|
|
488.
|
● Boiling mad
|
Job 41:19-22,
Proverbs 14:17,
29;
16:27;
17:14;
29:22
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Zephaniah 3:8
Matthew 5:22
|
🚫
|
Anger’s molten cesspool is hell.
|
|
489.
|
● Tempest in a teapot
|
Psalm 10:9
Prov. 15:18
Hosea 7:6
Rom. 16:18
Ep. 4:14
|
🚫
|
Anger is a stranger waging danger in the face of God.
|
|
490.
|
● If looks could kill
|
Isaiah 3:9
Ps. 18:27;
101:5
Prov. 6:16-17;
16:18;
18:12;
21:4
Matthew 5:21-22;
5:27-29
1st John 3:15;
4:20
|
🚫
|
Hatreds brazen appearance gives no clearance.
|
|
491.
|
● He who angers you conquers you
|
Psalms 37:8
Proverbs 16:32;
22:24-25
Ecclesiastes 7:9
|
🚫
|
Senseless anger fuels turmoil absent of His light.
|
|
492.
|
● Revenge is sweet
|
Proverbs 6:34-35;
20:22;
24:29
Romans 12:19
|
🚫
|
Indignation pressures the heart for relief.
|
|
493.
|
● Violence begets violence
|
Ps. 7:14-16;
73:6
Prov. 13:2;
21:7
Ezekiel 7:23
Amos 3:10
|
🚫
|
Violence is the drip of anger.
|
|
494.
|
● He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
|
Psalms 37:14-15
Job 36:12
Matthew 26:52
Revelation 13:10
|
✔
|
Confirms "Violence begets violence".
|
|
495.
|
● War is hell
|
Ex.15:3
Ec.8:8
Is.13:11
Acts 20:29-30
Jm.4:1
Rev.19:11
|
🚫
|
Man against man drives no end.
|
|
496.
|
● Save the King
|
2nd Samuel 15:13-15
2nd Chronicles 18:31
Is. 33:22;
45:22
Matthew 27:42
1st Timothy 2:4
|
🚫
|
The King has come to save us.
|
|
497.
|
● The pen is mightier than the sword
|
Ps. 45:1
2nd Cor. 3:3
Ep. 6:17
Heb. 4:12
Rev. 20:12
|
🚫
|
Good deeds color a soul's brilliance.
|
|
498.
|
● All good things must come to an end
|
Genesis 1:10
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Matthew 13:39
Romans 8:20-22
2ndPeter 3:10-12
Revelation 20:13-15
|
🚫
|
Earth entered sorrows so hope would give birth
to eternally loyal souls revealed through hardships.
|
|
499.
|
● Take the good with the bad
|
Prov.16:17
Lk.11:34
Rom.8:18
2ndCor.4:17;
5:10
Ep.5:11
|
🚫
|
Eyes on the Light fades the darkness.
|
|
500.
|
● Play to the gallery
|
Matthew 23:5-6
John 7:13;
9:22;
12:42;
19:38
|
🚫
|
Either seeking respect of men or fearing renowned
men, both escape a true relationship with God.
|
|
501.
|
● When in Rome, do as the Romans do
|
Genesis 4:7
2nd Thessalonians.3:6-7
1st Peter 4:1-4
Colossians 3:17
2nd Timothy 3:1-5
|
🚫
|
God wills improvement, not complacency.
|
|
502.
|
● Go with the flow
|
Prov. 16:25
Ec. 2:11
Zep. 1:12
Mat. 7:21
2nd Cor. 10:12
|
🚫
|
Complacency destroys compassionate insight.
|
|
503.
|
● Follow your juice (spirit)
|
Ez. 13:3
Mat. 26:41
John 6:63
1st Thess. 5:19
Rev. 14:13
|
🚫
|
Guidance in life must rely on God’s given truth.
|
|
504.
|
● Just trust (follow) your heart
|
Psalms 64:10;
94:15
Proverbs 3:5;
16:25
Jeremiah 17:9
|
🚫
|
Feelings can decieve even the most wise.
|
|
505.
|
● Live and let live
|
Isaiah 11:3-5
John 8:15;
12:47-48
Mattthew 7:1-2
Acts 14:15-16
1stCorinthians 11:31
|
🚫
|
Life’s true value is found in embracing others.
|
|
506.
|
● Life is good
|
James 4:13-16
1st Kings 10:24-11:8
Jer. 12:1-4
Rev. 3:17
|
🚫
|
Complacency is part of mediocrity.
|
|
507.
|
● Life is a bowl of cherries
|
Proverbs 15:15
Ec. 11:9
Isaiah 56:12
Luke 21:34-35
|
🚫
|
Anguish surrounds snobbish contemptibility.
|
|
508.
|
● Live life to the fullest
|
Ecclesiastes 11:9
James 4:13-16
John 11:25
Galatians 2:20
|
🚫
|
To the fullest in Christ or self is the essential question.
|
|
509.
|
● Full of pep (vim) and vinegar (vigor)
|
Job 14:1
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
11:9
Galatians 4:18
|
🚫
|
The charge of life holds well beyond one’s dreams.
|
|
510.
|
● Like there's no tomorrow
|
Proverbs 27:1
Isaiah 22:13
James 4:13-16
Luke 12:18-20
|
🚫
|
Eternity has more value
than temporary impulsiveness.
|
|
511.
|
● The sky is the limit
|
Psalm 10:6
Proverb 30:13
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Isaiah 56:11-12
Obadiah 1:3-4
Luke 12:16-21;
21:34
|
🚫
|
Eagles soar still short of heaven.
|
|
512.
|
● Made in the shade
|
Jonah 4:6
Psalm 121:5
Mark 4:30-32
Luke 12:16-21
|
🚫
|
Confidence void of thankfulness is arrogance.
|
|
513.
|
● The more the merrier
|
Romans 1:29-32
|
🚫
|
Frenzied revelries please men, not God.
|
|
514.
|
● Misery loves company
|
Prov. 14:10
Heb. 11:24-26
1st Pet. 4:16-19
Rom. 1:29-32
|
🚫
|
No reasonable soul is eager to suffer.
|
|
515.
|
● No use crying over spilt milk
|
2nd Sam. 12:22-23
John 11:21
Luke 9:62
Hebrews 5:12-13
|
🚫
|
Dwell not upon failure but seek tomorrow’s success.
|
|
516.
|
● Don't make a mountain out of a molehill
|
Matthew 7:4-5;
23:23-24
Luke 10:40-41;
11:42
|
🚫
|
The petty inherit small minded blindness.
|
|
517.
|
● Splitting hairs
|
Job 6:25
Psalm 40:12
Matthew 5:36
Luke 10:40-41;
11:42
2nd Corinthians 12:20
|
🚫
|
Pounding details can compromise
simple human decency.
|
|
518.
|
● Two wrongs don’t make a right
|
Acts 5:1-11
|
🚫
|
Evil upon evil is still evil.
|
|
519.
|
● That’s the blind leading the blind
|
Matthew 15:14
Luke 6:39
|
✔
|
Darkness holds no light.
|
|
520.
|
● There are none so blind as
those who do not want to see
|
Matthew 15:14;
23:23-25
John 12:40
2nd Cor. 3:14;
4:3-4
|
🚫
|
Dark hearts are unwilling to see God’s love.
|
|
521.
|
● Turn a blind eye
|
Psalm 10:11;
10:13;
94:8-9
Matthew 6:22-23;
7:3-5;
15:14
John 9:39-41
Ephesians 4:18
|
🚫
|
God remains for those that refuse to see Him.
|
|
522.
|
● Look the other way
|
Genesis 9:23
Psalm 119:37
Proverbs 4:27;
30:12
Isaiah 1:4;
53:6
John. 12:40
Luke 6:41,
46;
10:30-37
Acts 24:25
Rom. 2:13;
11:8
Heb. 12:25
James 1:23-24
|
🚫
|
Failing to look at our own faults blinds our vision.
~
Not looking to God declines the quality of the soul.
|
|
523.
|
● Thick (hard) headed
|
Jeremiah 5:21
Ezekiel 12:2
Zecariah. 7:11
Matthew 13:15
John 12:40
Acts 28:27
Romans 11:8
|
🚫
|
A stubborn heart blinds one from the light of God
to clearly see the truth of what Love has given.
|
|
524.
|
● Narrow minded
|
Ps. 95:8
Zechariah 7:11
Mat. 23:23-25
Acts 7:51
Heb. 3:13
|
🚫
|
Bitter hearted narrowness condemns one in contempt.
|
|
525.
|
● Can't see the forest for the trees
|
Jeremiah 10:2-5
Isaiah 29:16
Luke 11:42
James 3:5
|
🚫
|
The larger picture eludes all small minded.
|
|
526.
|
● Can't make heads or tails of it
|
Job 23:8-9
Ps. 55:5
Is. 28:7
2nd Cor. 4:8
2nd Tim. 3:7
|
🚫
|
One can not approach God in a stupor.
|
|
527.
|
● I'll believe that when I see it
|
John 20:25,
29
2nd Corinthians 5:7;
4:18
Hebrews 11:1
|
🚫
|
Without belief, doubt kills hope.
|
|
528.
|
● Seeing is believing
|
Jn.1:18;
4:48;
20:24-29
Heb.11:1
Ex.33:20
Col.1:15
Rev.1:7
|
🚫
|
Belief is knowing unseen truth.
|
|
529.
|
● Where there is no vision, the people perish
|
Proverbs 29:18
Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
|
✔
|
Disdain for God’s Word renders lawless atrocities.
|
|
530.
|
● Dig yourself into a hole
|
Ps. 7:15;
38:4,17;
40:12;
69:14;
88:6
Prov. 5:22;16:27
Am.9:2
|
🚫
|
The soul is a hole in need of Holiness.
|
|
531.
|
● Feet of clay
|
Psalm 40:2
Daniel 2:32-35
|
🚫
|
No where to stand unless God ordains it.
|
|
532.
|
● Stuck in the mud
|
Psalm 40:2;
69:2
Acts 27:41
Ephesians 5:11-21
|
🚫
|
Indifference plagues the depressed.
|
|
533.
|
● Here's mud in your eye
|
Psalm 13:3
Ephesians 5:18
John 9:5-16
|
🚫
|
His will is for us to see the truth.
|
|
534.
|
● Evil eye
|
Deut. 15:9
Proverbs 28:22
Matthew 20:14-15
Mark 7:21-23
|
✔
|
Jealousies greedy desire sparks an evil glare.
|
|
535.
|
● An eye for an eye
|
Exodus 21:22-25
Leviticus 24:19-20
Matthew 5:38-48
|
✔
|
Instead of retribution, show forgiveness;
~ New legislation given by the Lord.
|
|
536.
|
● The eye is the window to the soul
|
Matthew 6:22
Luke 11:34
|
🚫
|
The spirit behind the eye is the lamp of the soul.
|
|
537.
|
● In the twinkling of an eye
|
1st Corinthians 15:52
|
✔
|
All the earth is but a moment in the eye of God.
|
|
538.
|
● Keep your eyes on the prize
|
1st Corinthians 9:24-25
Philippians 3:13-14
Luke 9:62
|
🚫
|
Grasp eternal life now.
|
|
539.
|
● Eyes wide open, Heads up
|
Psalms 5:3;
119:18
Proverbs 20:13
Isaiah 49:18;
51:6
Luke 21:28
Acts 17:30;
26:18
Ephesians 4:17-19
|
🚫
|
Either one seizes upon consciousness
or frightfully runs from it. The weak avoid truth.
|
|
540.
|
● Seeing eye to eye
|
Isaiah 52:8
Matthew 5:25;
18:19-20
Acts 2:44
|
✔
|
Only in the light of Jesus can man find unity.
|
|
541.
|
● Do not look back
|
Genesis 19:17,
26
Luke 9:62;
17:32
Phil 3:13
|
✔
|
The present is fitted exclusively to move forward.
|
|
542.
|
● Love is blind
|
Romans 13:10
1st John 4:7.8
|
🚫
|
Love is the essence of faith.
|
|
543.
|
● To love and be loved
|
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
Romans 13:8
1st John 4:11,
19
|
🚫
|
Love is the reason we are alive.
|
|
544.
|
● Perfect love casts out fear
|
1st John 4:18
|
✔
|
Love is the peaceful mist of time.
|
|
545.
|
● If you love someone, set them free
|
Genesis 1:26-28
John 3:16
1st John 4:9-10,
18-19
|
🚫
|
God's love set us free to be and become who we are.
|
|
546.
|
● Love means you never have to say you’re sorry
|
Psalm 25:11
Proverbs 10:12
Luke 18:13
1st Cor. 13:1-8,
13
2ndTim. 1:7
1stJohn 4:7,
18
|
🚫
|
True love is being able to say you are sorry.
|
|
547.
|
● We hurt the ones we love the most
|
Ps. 37:8
Prov. 14:17;
17:17;
20:30
Ec. 7:9
Hebrews 12:5-11
1st John 3:1
|
🚫
|
Without empathy anguish unleashes upon those held
as most precious driving the hollows of loneliness.
|
|
548.
|
● Love God first, your neighbor second,
yourself last
|
Matthew 10:37-38;
22:36-40
Mark 12:29-31
Luke 14:26-27
|
🚫
|
Intensely love God more than all else.
|
|
549.
|
● A labor of love
|
1st Thessalonians 1:2-3
Hebrews 6:10
|
✔
|
Behold, the Love for life came before mortal light.
|
|
550.
|
● Love conquers all.
|
Prov. 10:12
1st Cor. 13:7-8
Eph. 3:19
Col. 3:14
|
🚫
|
Love is the only currency.
|
|
551.
|
● Pick your battles
|
Nahum 1:2
Rom. 12:17-19
Ep. 6:12
Jm. 4:1
1stPet. 5:6-9
|
🚫
|
It is a battle for peace that we wage.
|
|
552.
|
● Cross that bridge when you come to it
|
Proverbs 24:10
Mark 4:35-41
1st Timothy 6:12
|
🚫
|
Fear tests faith.
|
|
553.
|
● Ignorance of the law is no excuse
|
Lev. 5:17
Mark 16:16
Luke 10:16
John 12:48
Heb. 12:25
|
🚫
|
Judgment will be based on His announced word.
|
|
554.
|
● Ignorance is bliss
|
Prov. 1:22;
4:19;
24:12;
26:11
Ho. 4:6
Is. 5:13
Mat. 13:15
1st Thess. 2:15-16
Rom. 10:3
Ep. 4:18;
5:17
1st Pet. 2:15
Psalm 88:12
Acts 17:30
John 3:15;
12:48
Heb. 6:4-6
|
🚫
|
There is nothing blissful about ignorance.
The tool of enlightenment is knowledge.
|
|
555.
|
● If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is
|
Psalm 55:21
2nd Tim. 4:3-4
2nd Peter 1:16
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
There are no secrets in the truth.
|
|
556.
|
● Don't believe everything you hear
|
Proverbs 14:15
1stJohn 4:1
1stThessalonians 5:21
Matthew 24:4-5
2ndTimothy 3:13
Mark 4:23-24
|
🚫
|
Consider genuineness.
|
|
557.
|
● Unless you believe, you will not understand
|
Gen.1:1
Ps.33:6
John 1:3
Phil.4:6-7
Heb.11:3;
11:6
|
🚫
|
Bottomless peace is assurance in God.
|
|
558.
|
● We fear what we don’t understand
|
Psalm 34:4;
94:8
Prov.1:7;
9:10;
21:16
Mark 9:31-32
Acts 17:30
1st Cor.14:20
Ep. 4:18;
5:17
|
🚫
|
The earth is a shadow of things to come.
To understand Him prepares us for what is to come.
|
|
559.
|
● We have nothing to fear but fear itself
|
Exodus 20:20
2nd Timothy 1:7
1st John 4:18
Luke 12:5
Rom. 11:15-22
Ec. 12:13-14
Heb. 10:31
|
🚫
|
The Lord will not spare the unfaithful.
Do not let your fears overwhelm your love.
|
|
560.
|
● What you don’t know won’t hurt you
|
Hosea 4:6
Ephesians 4:17-24
1st Corinthians 6:9-11
Galatians 6:7-8
Romans 10:3-4
|
🚫
|
No exemption from God’s righteous judgment.
|
|
561.
|
● To know and not to do is not to know
|
Luke 6:46
John 12:40
Romans 1:21
James 1:22-24;
4:17
|
🚫
|
Challenged is a soul’s spirit to act in truth.
|
|
562.
|
● It is impossible for a man to learn
what he thinks he already knows
|
Proverbs 3:7;
26:12,
16
Isaiah 5:21
Luke 18:9
John 8:39-43;
9:41
1st Corinthians 8:2
|
🚫
|
Knowledge is for understanding.
Understanding is for wisdom. Wisdom is for love.
|
|
563.
|
● The more you know, the less you know
|
Job 38:4-7;
38:18-20;
38:22
Psalm 139:6
Ec. 1:18;
12:12
|
🚫
|
The more one knows, the smaller one becomes.
|
|
564.
|
● Great minds think alike
|
Ps.92:5-6
Prov.3:5
Rom.14:5
John 7:4
1stCor.2:14;
15:47
2nd Corinthians 10:4-5
1st Thess. 5:21
1st Peter 2:17
|
🚫
|
All things are one in the presence of God.
|
|
565.
|
● Fuel for thought
|
Psalm 94:11
Isaiah 44:14-20
Habakkuk 2:18-19
Col. 3:5
|
🚫
|
Mortal desire over Godly thankfulness denies holiness.
|
|
566.
|
● Nobody is perfect
|
Ps.18:30-32
Rom.11:34
Mat.19:21
Rom.13:8
Col.3:14;
1:28
1stJn.4:18
Ep.2:10;
4:13
Heb.6:1;
7:19;
9:11;
11:40;
12:23
Jm.1:4,25;2:22;3:2
Rom.3:23;8:18-23
1stCor.15:46-56
Ec.7:20
|
🚫
|
Pain is a sign of consciousness.
Our spirit’s measure to endure exposes deliverance.
Corrupt mortal lives initiate birth into perfection.
God looks to acquire eternally loyal souls.
|
|
567.
|
● The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials
|
Romans 5:3-4
Ephesians 4:13-15
Philippians 3:12
James 1:2-3;
2:22;
3:2
1st Peter 1:6-9
Isaiah 26:3
|
🚫
|
The depth of a soul’s genuine expression
is refined through experiences endured.
|
|
568.
|
● An honest confession is good for the soul
|
Prov. 28:13
Mark 1:4-5
Mat. 10:32-33
Rom. 10:9
1st John 1:9
James 5:16
Rev. 3:5
1st Tim. 2:5
|
🚫
|
Obeying God more is good for the soul.
~ Casual manageable sin denies obedience to God.
|
|
569.
|
● He that cannot obey cannot command
|
Psalm 5:8
Isaiah 1:19
Jeremiah 7:23
Matthew 5:19
Luke 16:10
Titus 1:5
1st Timothy 3:1-6
|
🚫
|
Knowing from the steps of following
develops an understanding keen leader.
|
|
570.
|
● Quality, not quantity
|
1stKings 17:12-15
Ps.51:17
Mk.9:50
Luke 12:15;
12:16-21
|
🚫
|
God calls genuine hearts of spiritual discernment.
|
|
571.
|
● Prepare to meet your maker
|
Amos 4:12
Job 4:17
2nd Chron.12:14
Mat.24:44
Lk.12:40
2ndTim. 4:2
Mark 9:47
1stPet. 3:15;
4:17-18
Jer. 17:10
|
✔
|
Purge your spirit to make ready your soul.
|
|
572.
|
● Forewarned is forearmed
|
Proverbs 3:7-8;
7:2-3;
16:3;
19:16
Jude 1:7
|
🚫
|
Foolish ignorance invites widespread calamities.
|
|
573.
|
● A cross to bear
|
Matthew 10:38;
16:24
Mark 8:34
Luke 9:23;
14:27
|
✔
|
Life is a load bearing affair.
|
|
574.
|
● Worship the Creator not His creation
|
Is.42:17-18
Jer.51:17-18
Hab.2:18-19
Acts 14:15
Rom.1:24-25
|
🚫
|
Reverence for the tangible can overlook His majesty.
|
|
575.
|
● The nearer the church, the farther from God
|
Job 4:17
Is. 29:13
Mat. 6:2-5;
15:9;
23:5-7
Luke 11:39-40
Acts 17:24-25
Colossians 2:20-23;
3:1-2
Titus 1:14
|
🚫
|
Full of religious facades compromises inner sanctuary.
The nearer to God, the closer to the truth.
|
|
576.
|
● Transubstantiation
|
Rom. 6:10
Heb. 7:26-27;
9:25-28;
10:10-14
Jude 1:3-4
|
🚫
|
Lawlessness exceeds at easily excusing habitual sin.
Diverging explanations of God dilute His eternal glory.
|
|
577.
|
● Have a personal relationship with Jesus
|
Acts 10:34
John 14:3,
15;
20:29
Mat. 7:23;
15:9
Rom. 6:17;
10:2
Luke 24:31-36
Acts 1:9-11
2nd Cor. 5:16-19
1st Thess. 4:16
2nd Thess. 1:10
1st John 2:3-5;
3:2
Rev. 1:7
|
🚫
|
Emotional submission is not necessarily
obedient observance. Jesus is and calls all to come.
Our draw to Him and the word declares our faith.
We know Him not in the flesh.
|
|
578.
|
● Praise the Lord
|
Psalm 7:17;
22:26;
102:18;
111:1;
112:1;
135:1-3;
146:1-2
Psalm 148:1;
150:1,
6
Jeremiah 20:13
Romans 15:11
|
✔
|
His glory outshines all creation offering a free return
to all genuine souls, from the decay we must all face.
|
|
579.
|
● Amend your ways and your doings
|
Jeremiah 7:3;
26:13
Acts 17:30-31
2nd Thessalonians 1:8
|
✔
|
God will only spare those true to Him.
|
|
580.
|
● Turn over a new leaf
|
Lam. 3:40
Matthew 21:19-21;
24:32-33
Romans 6:4
2nd Cor. 5:17
Ephesians 4:17-24
Colossians 3:9-10
|
🚫
|
Put off withering deceptions and bud in the Lord.
It is invigorating to be fresh and or ripe in God.
|
|
581.
|
● Clean slate
|
Isaiah 1:18
Acts 2:38;
22:16
Romans 7:6
Epesians 1:7
Hebrews 10:16-22
1st John 1:9
|
🚫
|
Only through His Light may we obtain pureness.
|
|
582.
|
● Many are called, few are chosen
|
Matthew 20:16;
22:14
|
✔
|
One may not approach God without an offering.
|
|
583.
|
● Advice when most needed is least heeded
|
Mark 4:24
Rom. 12:16
Gal. 6:9
Phil. 2:3
Heb. 2:1
|
🚫
|
Stubborn is the heart of man.
|
|
584.
|
● Can a leopard change its spots?
|
Jeremiah 13:23
|
✔
|
Can the laugh of love overcome the contempt of hate?
|
|
585.
|
● Nothing changes, if no one changes
|
Job 33:14
Psalm 119:59
Acts 17:30-31
James 1:22-25
|
🚫
|
Decadence avalanches upon the noble.
|
|
586.
|
● The end doesn’t justify the means
|
Ex. 23:7
Prov. 17:15
Mat. 16:26
Luke 16:15
Rom. 8:33
|
🚫
|
Wicked means condemn those that practice them.
|
|
587.
|
● The end justifies the means
|
1stSam. 14:14
Rom. 3:28;
4:24-25;
5:9,
18;
8:33
James 4:10
|
🚫
|
Submitting to God rewards one with salvation.
|
|
588.
|
● Give credit where credit is due
|
Romans 6:10;
16:17
Hebrews 7:26-27
1st Peter 2:20-24
|
🚫
|
Christ died once for all to show us the way.
|
|
589.
|
● You reap what you sow
|
Gal.6:7-8
Job 4:8
2nd Cor.9:6;
5:10
Rom.2:6
Ec.12:14
|
✔
|
We will be known for what we are.
|
|
590.
|
● Better to be gullible than suspicious
|
Proverbs 3:5-6
1st Corinthians 14:20
Romans 11:18-23
Hebrews 3:12,
19;
6:10-12;
10:35-36
|
🚫
|
An open heart is better than a closed heart.
|
|
591.
|
● Better safe than sorry
|
Prov. 21:31;
29:25
2nd Chron. 16:7-9
1st Pet. 3:13
Phil. 3:1
James 1:21
Rom. 8:31-39
Mark 16:16
|
🚫
|
It is safer to know God than not.
|
|
592.
|
● Better late than never
|
Matthew 20:1-16
2nd Peter 3:9
|
🚫
|
Turn on to God or tune out to true life.
|
|
593.
|
● Last but not least
|
Matthew 20:16
Mark 9:35;
10:31
Luke 13:30
|
🚫
|
The greatest honor is in service to all.
|
|
594.
|
● Knock on wood
|
Isaiah 44:14-20
Luke 13:25
Rev. 3:20
Luke 11:9-10
Jeremiah 10:8
Habakkuk 2:19
|
🚫
|
Seek not worldly idols; open your heart to God.
Lacking faith - objects of superstition deceive.
|
|
595.
|
● Nothing new under the sun
|
Ecclesiastes 1:9
|
✔
|
The folly of self pursuits remains.
|
|
596.
|
● Nothing is written in stone
|
Ex. 31:18
Deut. 9:10
Is. 28:16
Rom. 9:33
Jer. 31:33
Heb. 8:10
1st Pet. 2:4-5
2nd Cor. 3:1-3
Acts 27:25
|
🚫
|
Opportunity is while we are alive.
|
|
597.
|
● The writing is on the wall
|
Daniel 5:1-6
Daniel 5:25-28
Luke 8:17
Mat. 25:24-33
|
🚫
|
One’s life strips to the naked truth.
|
|
598.
|
● As plain as your face (hand)
|
James 1:23-25
1st Cor. 13:12
2nd Cor. 3:17-18
Ep. 2:10
|
🚫
|
All are called to good works in Christ Jesus.
|
|
599.
|
● Clear as a whistle
|
James 1:19
2nd Thessalonians 2:14
|
🚫
|
God calls for all to hear His Word.
|
|
600.
|
● As clear as mud
|
John 9:11
James 3:16
Rom. 9:20-24
2nd Tim. 2:20-22
|
🚫
|
The nature of life is to achieve a
greater clarity of good over evil.
|
|
601.
|
● That's Greek to me
|
Isaiah 6:9-10
Ezekiel 12:2
Jeremiah 5:21
Mat. 13:14
John 12:40
Acts 21:37;
28:25-27
Rom. 11:8
|
🚫
|
In the vast unsearchable ocean of time in space,
absolute understanding leaps from our grasp.
|
|
602.
|
● Good grief
|
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Isaiah 53:10
Romans 5:3-4
James 1:2-3
1st Petter 2:19-20;
3:17
|
🚫
|
Endurance in the mist of evil
exposes true character.
|
|
603.
|
● Like a fish (duck) out of water
|
Matthew 13:57
Luke 4:24
|
🚫
|
Accepting truth is often shocking.
|
|
604.
|
● A laughing-stock
|
Psalm 80:6
Proverbs 1:26;
7:22;
29:9
|
🚫
|
Ridicule’s best friend is a fool.
|
|
605.
|
● Add insult to injury
|
Ps.52:2
Prov.25:18
Mk.14:65
Job 16:9-10
Lk.18:31-33
Is.53:5
|
🚫
|
Torturous liars throw discord in hate.
|
|
606.
|
● Backhandded comment
|
Matthew 5:39
Luke 6:29
|
🚫
|
To endure insult with patience
express strength of character.
|
|
607.
|
● Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
|
Ps. 14:1
Prov. 10:23;
12:16;
14:16;
18:6-7;
20:3;
26:11
Ec. 7:4-6
Matthew 13:36-42;
25:41
Luke 12:8-9
2ndPet. 2:10-11
Jude 1:6
Hebrews 1:7;
10:31
|
🚫
|
Blinded in self seeking delusions,
Fools helplessly drain away to oblivion.
|
|
608.
|
● There’s no fool like an old fool
|
Psalm 53:1
Proverbs 14:16;
18:7;
26:11;
29:11
Ec. 2:16
|
🚫
|
All die the fool.
|
|
609.
|
● You are never to old to learn
|
Deuteronomy 32:7
Job 8:8
2nd Peter 3:18;
1:5-9
|
🚫
|
Understanding knowing is an endless vacuum.
|
|
610.
|
● You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
|
Proverbs 26:11
Jeremiah 32:33
Isaiah 29:13
Psalm 78:8
Mark 7:10-13
Colossians 2:8
Romans 11:23
|
🚫
|
False tradition is hard to overcome.
|
|
611.
|
● If you lie with dogs, you will wake up with fleas
|
Proverbs 26:11
1st Corinthians 15:33
|
🚫
|
Sin infests upon those willing.
|
|
612.
|
● Let sleeping dogs lie
|
Isaiah 56:10
Ephesians 5:11
1st Timothy 5:20
|
🚫
|
Isolated tolerance of blatant evils justifies no one.
|
|
613.
|
● Every dog hath its day
|
Psalm 144:3
Matthew 12:36
Hebrews 9:27
Rev. 22:14-15
|
🚫
|
A great day of reckoning nears for us all.
|
|
614.
|
● Gone to the dogs
|
Isaiah 56:11
Matthew 7:6
Philippians 3:2
Revelation 22:15
|
🚫
|
Allowing corruption advances anarchy.
|
|
615.
|
● It is a dog eat dog world
|
Exodus 22:31
Psalm 22:20
Isaiah 56:11;
66:3
Galatians 5:15
Phil. 3:2
John 7:7
Mat. 24:10
|
🚫
|
Greed (evil) deceptively consumes decency.
|
|
616.
|
● Eat or be eaten
|
Prov. 23:23
2nd Tim. 3:1-5;
4:3-4
John 6:51,
57
Mat. 26:28
Luke 22:19-20
1st Cor. 11:26-27
Rom. 14:17
Col. 3:2-6
|
🚫
|
Our disgust rages through a please-less people.
Eat of the Lord for earth consumes all to rotting dust.
|
|
617.
|
● Bit off more than you can chew
|
Genesis 4:7
Prov. 11:3;
14:9
Is. 55:7
Rom. 3:23;
6:23
|
🚫
|
Godly hope uplifts the sinful to put off sin.
|
|
618.
|
● You’re barking up the wrong tree
|
Gen.3:22
Prov.19:3;
29:20
Mat.6:2;
7:17
Jude 1:12
Rev.2:7
|
🚫
|
One chooses the tree of death or that of life.
|
|
619.
|
● The door swings both ways
|
Prov. 4:14
John 10:9
Heb. 10:26-27
James 5:9
Rev. 3:20
|
🚫
|
In God He remains or to swing away to your own way.
|
|
620.
|
● A fork in the road
|
Joshua 24:15
1st Kings 18:21
Ezekiel 21:21
|
🚫
|
The path one freely pursues decides fate.
|
|
621.
|
● The road less traveled
|
Matthew 7:13-14
Luke 9:57-62;
13:24
|
🚫
|
Each step toward the truth ignites a blaze of light.
|
|
622.
|
● The road to hell is paved with good intentions
|
1st Chronicles 28:9
Psalm 9:17
Proverbs 12:2
Hebrews 4:12
Luke 10:30-37
Revelation 21:8
|
🚫
|
Nothing is good enough if you forget God.
|
|
623.
|
● It is better to rule in hell,
than to serve in heaven
|
Mark 9:48
Jude 1:6;
13
2nd Pet. 2:4
2nd Thess. 1:7-9;
2:8
|
🚫
|
Hell is a disarray of anarchy leaderless.
|
|
624.
|
● Fall from grace
|
Galatians 5:4
Hebrews 12:15
2nd Peter 3:17-18
|
✔
|
A godless life rashly cuts the throat to nowhere.
|
|
625.
|
● Bottomless pit
|
Jude 1:13
Revelation 9:1-2;
17:8;
20:1-3
|
✔
|
Existence where blistering ash can not be seen.
|
|
626.
|
● Scrape the bottom of the barrel
|
Ezekiel 24:6,
11-12
Galatians 5:19-21
Romans 1:28-32
1st Corinthians 6:9-10
Revelation 21:7-8
|
🚫
|
God’s mercy extends to the bottom of all hearts.
Repent and turn or face the destruction of your soul.
|
|
627.
|
● As hot as hell
|
Luke 16:24
Mark 9:43-48
Matthew 13:41-42
|
🚫
|
There is nothing desirable in hell.
|
|
628.
|
● Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
|
1st Kings 21:5-10
|
🚫
|
Women can have scheming agendas.
|
|
629.
|
● Do not let your sun go down on your anger
|
Job 5:2
Psalm 37:8
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Ephesians 4:26-27
|
✔
|
Anger is the barrier to union with God.
|
|
630.
|
● Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof
|
Matthew 6:34
|
✔
|
Life is a canvas taken one brushstroke at a time.
|
|
631.
|
● Evil takes many forms
|
Jeremiah 17:9
Mat. 12:35;
15:19
Mark 7:21-23
Isaiah 5:20
2nd Corinthians 11:14
1st Thessalonians 5:22
|
🚫
|
Evil can overwhelm the goodness in us.
|
|
632.
|
● A multitude of sins
|
Proverbs 10:12
1st Peter 4:8
James 5:20
|
✔
|
The fan of life burns without love.
|
|
633.
|
● Repay evil with kindness
|
Romans 5:8;
12:17;
12:21
Luke 6:29;
6:35
|
🚫
|
Think of God’s love offering in redeeming grace.
|
|
634.
|
● Kill them with kindness
|
Proverbs 25:21-22
Romans 12:20-21
|
🚫
|
Love clings to the deep wanting of all.
|
|
635.
|
● Goodness for goodness' sake
|
Ps. 25:7
Mat. 5:44
Rom. 12:17
Gal. 6:10
1stThes. 5:15
|
🚫
|
Love establishes a sound heart
that can see eternal worth.
|
|
636.
|
● See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
|
Psalms 34:14-16;
64:5;
119:37
Ec. 5:1
Isaiah 33:15-16
1st Cor. 5:9-11
1stThess. 5:15;
5:22
Titus 3:2
|
🚫
|
Humanity is full of invasive corruption.
The good gasp surrounded by evil.
|
|
637.
|
● Out of sight, out of mind
|
Psalm 10:4;
78:42-43
Jeremiah 5:12
Romans 1:20-21;
1:28
|
🚫
|
What is God never changes no matter human opinion.
|
|
638.
|
● Nothing is sacred
|
Psalm 10:4;
14:1
Jeremiah 9:3
Mark 3:29
Romans 8:7
2nd Timothy 3:1-4
Jude 1:18
|
🚫
|
Life is not a passing of objects destroyed
but a gift of realizing blessings given.
|
|
639.
|
● Holy cow
|
Numbers 18:17
Exodus 32:8
Hosea 13:2
Acts 7:41
|
🚫
|
It is shockingly quick
how men defile God’s commands.
|
|
640.
|
● Holy smoke
|
Psalm 104:32
Exodus 19:18
Lev. 3:5
Neh. 9:12
|
🚫
|
The power of God should be feared.
|
|
641.
|
● For Pete's sake
|
Matthew 16:18
John 13:37-38
Psalms 74:18
James 3:10
|
🚫
|
All become bewildered upon foolish stumbles. More
often than a sacrificial cause, the vulgar becomes casual.
|
|
642.
|
● Accidents will happen
|
Luke 13:4-5
|
🚫
|
Contention covers the realities of man.
|
|
643.
|
● Even the most carefully made plans
can go astray
|
Proverbs 12:26
Luke 13:4-5
Galatians 6:1
|
🚫
|
Unpredictable is the random course
of freedom’s surge across time.
|
|
644.
|
● The bigger they are, the harder they fall
|
1st Sam.17:49
Prov.16:18
Lk.10:18
Rom.1:26-32
Jn.3:17
|
🚫
|
The greatest sinners will bear relative shame.
|
|
645.
|
● Unpardonable sin (against the Spirit of God)
|
Matthew 12:31-32
Mark 3:22-30
|
🚫
|
To accuse God of being evil is inexcusable.
|
|
646.
|
● Original Sin (inherited from Adam)
|
Deuteronomy 1:39
Psalm 51:5
Ezekiel 18:20
Romans 5:12-14
James 1:13-15
1stJohn 1:8-9
|
🚫
|
We are born singularly sinless into a sinful world.
Each one bears created guilt by one’s own desires.
|
|
647.
|
● The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away
|
Job 1:20-21
Ezekiel 18:4
Isaiah 13:11
|
✔
|
Generator, Operator, Destroyer
|
|
648.
|
● No respecter of persons
|
Ec. 9:2-3
Mat. 5:45;
22:16
Acts 10:34
Rom. 2:11
Gal. 2:6
1st Tim. 5:21
James 2:4;
3:17
1st Pet. 1:17
|
🚫
|
God joyously welcomes His like hearts.
|
|
649.
|
● At one fell swoop
|
Jos.6:20
Jg.15:15-16;
16:28
Job 36:18
Mat.7:27
Lk.6:47-49
|
🚫
|
God’s Power will topple evil in a timeless moment.
|
|
650.
|
● Out with the old, in with the new
|
Leviticus 26:10
Luke 16:16
2nd Cor. 5:17
Hebrews 8:13
|
🚫
|
Time constraints in space is God’s creation.
|
|
651.
|
● Worse for wear
|
Jos. 9:13
Mat. 6:19-20;
9:16-17
Mark 2:21-22
Luke 5:36-37
|
🚫
|
Dust and rust consumes the material.
|
|
652.
|
● Under My wing
|
Deut.32:11
Ps.61:4;
91:4
Mat.11:28;
23:37
Lk.13:34
Heb.13:6
|
✔
|
The Lord envelopes those He loves.
|
|
653.
|
● A prophet is never accepted in his own land
|
Matthew 13:57
Mark 6:4
Luke 4:24
John 4:44
|
✔
|
The creator is the condemned.
Mistrust halts civilization builders (lifters).
|
|
654.
|
● He that is not with me is against me
|
Mat.12:30
Mark 9:40
Luke 11:23
2ndJohn 1:9
Rev.3:15-16
|
✔
|
We are called to God’s Way over any other.
|
|
655.
|
● Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
|
John 13:13-17
Romans 13:12-14
1st Corinthians 11:1
Hebrews 6:12
James 5:10
3rd John 1:11
|
🚫
|
God created the universe to mirror His goodness.
To radiate His light honors His glorified purpose.
|
|
656.
|
● Stronger with you than without you
|
Job 17:9
Ps. 27:1;
105:24
Ec. 4:9-12
1st Cor. 1:25;
16:13
|
🚫
|
Spiritual fortitude for God increases invincibility.
|
|
657.
|
● If you are not part of the cure (solution),
then you are part of the problem
|
Mat. 12:30
Luke 11:23
Acts 26:22-23
Ep. 2:10
2nd John 1:9
|
🚫
|
God created His living universe for us to return
alive through Christ, the first to rise from the dead.
|
|
658.
|
● Don’t kill (shoot) the messenger
|
Mat.11:10;
14:3-11
John 8:28
Acts 7:51-53
1stThess.2:15
|
🚫
|
Innocence is the first casualty of life.
|
|
659.
|
● Don't burn your bridges behind you
|
Malachi 2:16
Romans 11:22
|
🚫
|
Building a godly life does not include abandoning
associations. Contained in everyone is half a bridge.
|
|
660.
|
● Don't bite the hand that feeds you
|
Mat .18:23-35;
6:14-15
Gal. 5:15
Es. 7:5-6
Jn. 13:26-27
|
🚫
|
Do not turn away from loyalty.
|
|
661.
|
● Beggars can't (should not) be choosers
|
Job 40:8
Isaiah 45:18
Isaiah 29:16
Psalms 44:20-21
|
🚫
|
We should all beg our Sovereign Lord’s pardon.
|
|
662.
|
● All or nothing
|
Proverbs 3:5
Ezekiel 18:24
John 5:28-29
Revelation 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
To trust or not questions the base of faith.
|
|
663.
|
● Love it or leave it
|
Psalm 42:2;
52:7
Proverbs 10:2
Mark 10:24
|
🚫
|
We are but custodians of what is bestowed upon us.
|
|
664.
|
● Take it or leave it
|
Deut. 11:26-28;
30:15
1st Corinthians 1:25-29
Rev. 22:17
|
🚫
|
God offers us free choice, His will will prevail.
|
|
665.
|
● You can't take it with you when you die
|
Gen. 3:19
Job 36:19
Ec. 12:7;
5:15
Psalm 49:17;
146:4
James 1:10-11
Luke 12:20
1st Timothy 6:7
|
🚫
|
Material bondage is a heavy yoke.
|
|
666.
|
● You only live once
|
Ps. 144:4;
78:39;
146:4
Ec. 3:19-21;
9:10
Daniel 12:2
1st Cor. 15:20-22
Rom. 8:10-11;
6:8-10
Heb. 9:27
|
🚫
|
The supernal essence of life is to live!
|
|
667.
|
● Life is for the living
|
Ec.9:4
Is.38:16-19
Lk.10:27-28;
20:38
Jn.11:25-26;
12:25;
17:3
Ps.37:18
Rom. 6:10-11;
8:11
1st John 2:25;
5:12
Rev. 22:17
|
🚫
|
Life without love of God and self has no ultimate
understanding for death is our birth in becoming.
|
|
668.
|
● Where there's life, there's hope
|
Ecclesiastes 9:4-5
1st Peter 1:3
Titus 3:7;
1:2
|
🚫
|
Hope’s aspiration is to trust unquestionably.
|
|
669.
|
● Live and learn
|
Deut. 4:10
Proverbs 4:7;
19:2
Ephesians 5:17
Acts 17:28-31
|
🚫
|
Awareness is the expression of our lives.
|
|
670.
|
● A breath of fresh air
|
Gen. 2:7
Job 29:20;
33:4
Psalms 103:4-5
Isaiah 40:31
|
🚫
|
Invigoration’s wealth lies in purpose.
Invincible are those that breathe for heaven.
|
|
671.
|
● The breath of life
|
Gen.2:7
Job 7:16;
33:4
Ps.78:39;
144:4
Ec.3:19
Acts 17:25
|
✔
|
Just one breath tears our spirit from this world
to solitarily kneel before the living creator God of all.
|
|
672.
|
● Life is short but sweet
|
Job 8:9
Ps. 89:47-48;
144:4
Ec. 12:1
James 4:14
|
🚫
|
Most taste the mundane bitterness of life.
|
|
673.
|
● The living daylights
|
Job 32:8
Ps. 36:9
John 1:4;
8:12
1st Thess. 5:5
Jm. 2:26
|
🚫
|
The Life of God extends in to all living freely.
|
|
674.
|
● A drop in the bucket
|
Isaiah 40:15
|
✔
|
We flow as a grain of sand in an endless river.
|
|
675.
|
● I am the sum total of my past
|
Job 20:11
Prov 20:27;
24:12
Mark 8:36
Luke 12:15
Romans 2:6
2nd Corinthians 5:10
Revelation 20:12
|
🚫
|
The culmination of all one’s spirit carries a soul.
|
|
676.
|
● Here today, gone tomorrow
|
Job 8:9;
16:22
Ps.90:10;
102:11;
144:4
1stCor.15:32
Jm.4:14
|
🚫
|
Life is a direct course returning to God.
|
|
677.
|
● No man is promised tomorrow
|
Job 24:22
Prov. 27:1
Luke 12:20
James 4:13-15
Heb. 9:27
|
🚫
|
Each soul is one breath away.
|
|
678.
|
● Nobody ever said life is fair
|
Job 24:9-10
Ezekiel 18:26-30
Matthew 20:12
|
🚫
|
God fairly offers mercy gracefully to those faithful.
|
|
679.
|
● All is fair in love and war
|
Ps.35:12;
55:21
2ndSam.3:6
Is.3:15;
5:20;
10:1-2
Rom.7:22-25
|
🚫
|
Lawlessness unfairly invades humanity.
|
|
680.
|
● A matter of life and death
|
Deuteronomy 30:15,
19
John 17:3
|
🚫
|
An entrance to eternity sparkles before all.
|
|
681.
|
● Over my dead body
|
Luke 22:33-34
|
🚫
|
Sacrifice can be humblingly fear filled.
|
|
682.
|
● Scared to death
|
Psalms 55:4-5
Hebrews 2:14-15
Revelation 2:10
|
🚫
|
Death is the horror of extinction.
|
|
683.
|
● Nothing is certain but death and taxes
|
Mat.22:16-21
Mk.12:14-17
Lk.20:22-25
Rom.13:3-7
Heb.9:27
|
🚫
|
Death is an awakening to life.
Leadership is not of man but of God.
|
|
684.
|
● The wages of sin is death
|
Genesis 2:17
Romans 6:23
2nd Corinthians 7:10
|
✔
|
Godly awareness pursuing adherence absolves sin.
|
|
685.
|
● In the shadow of death
|
Job 10:21-22;
12:22;
34:22
Psalms 107:10-12
Isaiah 9:2
Amos 5:8
Matthew 4:16
Luke 1:79
|
✔
|
All life dwindles to awake in the light.
|
|
686.
|
● A fate worse than death
|
Psalm 37:20
Hebrews 10:26-29
2nd Peter 2:20-22
Matthew 25:41
Jude 1:12-13
Revelation 21:8;
22:15
|
🚫
|
Alone, festering upon the puss of your own disgust.
|
|
687.
|
● A loveless life is a living death
|
Proverbs 8:33-36;
10:12;
15:13,
17;
18:14;
21:16
Ecclesiastes 6:3-4
1st Corinthians 13:1-3
|
🚫
|
Love carries all that ascends.
Bitter hearts die in empty pits.
|
|
688.
|
● You look like death warmed over
|
Gen. 40:7
Lev. 13:14-15
2nd Sam. 9:8
Job 21:5
Neh. 2:2-3
Ps. 22:17;
38:10-11;
109:24-25
Prov. 12:25;
15:13;
17:22
|
🚫
|
Anguish weeps over those burdened by living.
Dense crying hearts suffer with no escape.
|
|
689.
|
● O death, where is thy sting?
|
1st Corinthians 15:55
|
✔
|
Hope for sufferings end is common to all.
|
|
690.
|
● Death wish
|
1st Kings 19:1-4
Job 3:11,
16
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
Jonah 4:8
|
🚫
|
The bitterness of anger destroys a souls peace to see.
|
|
691.
|
● Death is the great leveler
|
Proverbs 29:13
Ecclesiastes 2:16;
3:20
|
🚫
|
The despair of death trivializes the tangible.
|
|
692.
|
● Death pays all debts
|
Psalms 39:6-7
2nd Cor. 5:10
Hebrews 9:27
Rev. 20:12-13
|
🚫
|
Death is the debt we all pay for sin.
|
|
693.
|
● Kiss of death
|
Genesis 27:2
2nd Samuel 22:5-6
Psalms 116:3
Hebrews 9:27
Mark 15:37
1st Peter 5:14
|
🚫
|
In life love is closer than death.
|
|
694.
|
● Give up the ghost
|
Job 3:11:
3:11 - KJV
John 19:30
Acts 12:23:
12:23 - KJV
|
✔
|
Spirit is the force of our lives.
|
|
695.
|
● Bite the dust
|
Psalm 22:15;
72:9
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Micah 7:17
|
🚫
|
Death will gloss who we are.
|
|
696.
|
● Pushing up daisies
|
1stSam.2:33
Job 14:2;
16:22
Ps.6:5
Ec.3:2
Is.28:1
Jm.1:11
|
🚫
|
Ours is a planet of delicate beauty and tragic death.
|
|
697.
|
● Let the dead bury the dead
|
Matthew 8:21-22
Luke 9:59-62
|
✔
|
Life is for the living; be not concerned with that which
is nothing. Obsession with the dead curtails living life.
|
|
698.
|
● Ashes to ashes dust to dust
|
Genesis 3:19
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
Hebrews 9:27
|
🚫
|
One should desire to live beyond the dust.
|
|
699.
|
● Absent in body, but present in spirit
|
1st Corinthians 5:3
Colossians 2:5
|
✔
|
Spirit is the presence of the soul.
|
|
700.
|
● Dead men tell no tales
|
Job 7:8-10
Ecclesiastes 9:5
Hebrews 9:27
John 5:25
1st Samuel 28:11-19
Matthew 23:27
|
🚫
|
Some men alive have no life.
|
|
701.
|
● Time tells all tales
|
1st Cor. 3:13;
4:5
Dan. 8:19
Habakkuk 2:3
1st Pet. 1:3-5
|
🚫
|
Timelessness reveals all truths.
|
|
702.
|
● Time heals all wounds
|
Psalm 147:3
Ecclesiastes 3:3
Hebrews 4:16
|
🚫
|
Scabs covering wounds fade over time.
|
|
703.
|
● It is only a matter of time
|
Psalm 39:5;
90:10
Job 14:1-2
James 4:14
Eph. 4:13
|
🚫
|
We exist in the realm of finite limitations.
|
|
704.
|
● In due time
|
Romans 5:6
1st Tim. 2:6;
6:15-16
Titus 1:3
1st Peter 5:6
|
✔
|
All reckoning will come in due time.
|
|
705.
|
● All in good time
|
Psalm 9:17;
31:24;
90:12
John 4:36-38
James 5:11
|
🚫
|
Understanding what one knows reveals wisdom.
|
|
706.
|
● All's well that ends well
|
Ec.7:14
De.8:11-16
Jm.2:8;
2:19
Mk.10:29-30
1st Cor.4:5
|
🚫
|
Without the Lord there is no good end.
|
|
707.
|
● The third (three) time’s a charm
|
Job 33:29-30
Proverbs 30:15-16,
18-19,
21-23,
29-31
|
🚫
|
To gain a kind soul, God attempts three times more.
|
|
708.
|
● Luck of the draw / Toss of the coin
|
Proverbs 16:33;
18:18
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Acts 1:26
|
🚫
|
Good or bad can be a matter of chance.
|
|
709.
|
● A shot in the dark
|
Judges 7:19-21
1st Kings 22:34-35
Ecclesiastes 11:6
|
🚫
|
Shock shoots past the dark piercing the light.
|
|
710.
|
● Cross your fingers
|
Psalms 55:22;
62:1
Proverbs 13:12;
16:33
Ecclesiastes 9:11
|
🚫
|
Pray God afflictions be lessened.
|
|
711.
|
● Short end of the stick
|
John 8:24
Romans 11:17-24
Jude 1:5
Hebrews 3:19
|
🚫
|
A heart of unbelief will leave one short in living full.
|
|
712.
|
● Let the chips fall where they may
|
1st Chronicles 25:8
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Acts 17:26
Romans 12:4-8
Galatians 6:2
1st John 3:2
|
🚫
|
Talent and prowess does not reflect position in life.
Associations and moods define the stumblings of man.
|
|
713.
|
● What will (is to) be will be
|
Ec.1:9;
3:15;
10:14
Mat.6:10,
21
Mk.10:30
1st Jn.2:25;
3:2
|
🚫
|
An eternal condition awaits us all.
|
|
714.
|
● It is that it is
|
Ecclesiastes 2:16;
3:15;
11:3-5
Matthew 5:45
Acts 10:42
|
🚫
|
Shouts from heaven awaken the soul.
|
|
715.
|
● Time and chance happen to all
|
Ecclesiastes 2:14-16;
9:2-3,
9:11
Matthew 5:45
|
✔
|
It is God’s will that we freely return to Him uncoerced.
|
|
716.
|
● Rise and shine
|
Isaiah 60:1
Ep.5:13-14
1st Cor.15:34
Mat.5:16;
13:40-43
Psalm 31:16;
68:4
Job 18:5
2nd Cor.4:3-6
Phil.2:14-16
|
🚫
|
Evil has no genuine illumination.
|
|
717.
|
● Let your light shine
|
Matthew 5:16
Ephesians 5:8
1st Peter 2:12
|
✔
|
Timeless radiations reflect the soul.
|
|
718.
|
● Put your best foot forward
|
Psalm 26:12
Proverbs 4:27;
25:17
Mark 9:45
|
🚫
|
Proper steps ensure the delicate dance of salvation.
|
|
719.
|
● If the shoe (cap) fits, wear it
|
Job 19:4
Proverbs 10:9;
19:1;
22:1
James 3:14
|
🚫
|
Honesty with one’s self highlights character.
One can only know the bottom of one’s own heart.
|
|
720.
|
● Look at the bright side
|
Ps. 18:28
Matthew 5:16
John 8:12
2nd Corinthians 4:6
Ep. 5:8
1st Peter 2:9
1st John 1:5
Revelation 22:5
|
🚫
|
To radiate Him ignites the life in us.
|
|
721.
|
● Light at the end of the tunnel
|
Ps. 36:9
Ep. 5:8-9,
14
Luke 15:10
2nd Cor. 4:6
1st Pet. 1:3-5
1st John 1:5
Is. 60:19
Rev. 22:5
|
🚫
|
God’s love remains glowing beyond mere sight.
His great might pulls each to awaking eternal life.
|
|
722.
|
● Heaven on earth
|
John 17:4-5
2nd Cor. 5:1
Acts 1:11
1st Peter 1:4
|
🚫
|
Heaven is Jesus offered to save His faithful saints.
|
|
723.
|
● Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
|
Psalm 112:7;
147:3
Acts 5:39
Revelation 22:2
|
🚫
|
Trusting in forever lifts past the mundane.
|
|
724.
|
● Earth shattering
|
2nd Samuel 22:8
Psalm 77:18
2nd Peter 3:10-12
|
🚫
|
This is the nursery of our children’s civilization.
|
|
725.
|
● My cup runnneth over
|
Psalm 23:5
|
✔
|
Faith is an unending well of hope.
|
|
726.
|
● Count your blessings
|
Psalm 103:2
Matthew 5:45
Hebrews 6:7
|
🚫
|
The endless blessings of God are immeasurable.
|
|
727.
|
● Stop and smell the roses
|
Isaiah 35:1
Isaiah 40:6
Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
|
🚫
|
One’s life is aroma rising to God.
|
|
728.
|
● A blessing in disguise
|
Genesis 27:30-35
Matthew 5:11-12
2nd Corinthians 4:17
Romans 5:1-4;
8:18
James 1:2-3
1st Peter 3:14;
5:10
|
🚫
|
Hardship builds and tests the character of a soul.
|
|
729.
|
● It is better to have loved and lost
than to have never loved at all.
|
2nd Pet. 2:20-21
Heb. 10:26
Mat. 24:12
Psalm 70:4
|
🚫
|
Don't loose your love for God.
|
|
730.
|
● At least (he or she) is in a better place now
|
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6;
9:10
Hebrews 9:27
1st John 3:2
|
🚫
|
Do not claim to know that which is not known.
|
|
731.
|
● Absence makes the heart grow fonder
|
Psalm 42:1
John 13:36
2nd Corinthians 5:9
Phil. 2:12
|
🚫
|
Missing God deepens our yearning for Him.
|
|
732.
|
● Parting is such sweet sorrow
|
2nd Samuel 12:22-23
Proverbs 15:13;
14:13
John 13:36;
14:18
Philippians 2:12
2nd Corinthians 7:10
|
🚫
|
Departed mentors are the sorest of losses.
There is no direct communication with the dead.
|
|
733.
|
● All things to all men
|
Zechariah 1:3
1st Corinthians 9:22;
10:33
|
✔
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An appeal from God to return breaks all barriers.
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734.
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● All for one, one for all
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1st Corinthians 8:6;
10:16-17;
12:12-13
2nd Corinthians 5:14
1st Thessalonians 5:15
1st Peter 3:8
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One God.
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735.
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● Be that as it may
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Psalm 60:4
Ec. 9:11
Romans 1:20-21
2nd Cor. 12:16
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✔
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God's creation being abundantly clear,
rebellion (evil) resides in the darkness of a soul.
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736.
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● The proof is in the pudding
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Is.32:17
Mat.7:16-20;
12:33
Lk.3:9;
6:43-45
1st John 4:1
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Each soul is emulsified by the truth.
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737.
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● The bottom line
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1st Chron. 28:9
Job 38:4-5
Mat. 27:51
Mark 15:38
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God has revealed His heart for all to see.
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738.
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● It will come out in the wash
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Isaiah 1:18
Acts 22:16
Revelation 2:7;
2:17;
3:5
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Immersion in the Lord deliverers one clean.
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739.
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● I wash my hands of the whole matter
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Mat.27:24
Jer.31:30
Job 19:4
Rom.14:12-13
Heb.2:3
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One can not wash away anything done except
in Christ’s sheltering protection of Grace.
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740.
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● Judge not that ye be judged not
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Mat. 7:1-2
Lk. 6:37
John 3:16-21;
7:24;
8:15;
12:47-48
Romans 2:1-11;
14:10-13
1st Corinthians 6:1-8;
11:31
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Remain receptively hopeful as God does.
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741.
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● Good judgment comes from experience but
most experience comes from bad judgment
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Proverbs 4:7;
14:14
Ecclesiastes 8:5-6
John 7:24
1st Corinthians 2:11
1st Thessalonians 5:21
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The sharpest wisdom comes from the
arrogant cliffs we crawl back from.
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742.
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● You can't judge a book by its cover
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Job 19:23
Psalm 40:7
Ecclesiastes 12:12
John 21:25
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The enormity and depth of truth
elusively waits to be concisely revealed.
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743.
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● Don’t judge a man before you
have walked a mile in his shoes
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Matthew 7:1,
3-5
Luke 6:37,
41-42
1st Corinthians 11:31
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A closed heart beats against an open heart.
Too many people try to drive the hearts of others.
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744.
|
● Temper justice with mercy
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Ps.89:14
Prov.21:3
Zec.7:9
Mic.6:8
Mat.12:7;
23:23
Jm.2:13
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Merciful righteous justice is considering God above.
|
|
745.
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● Justice delayed is justice denied
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Prov. 18:5;
21:3
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Matthew 7:2
Rom. 13:4
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Where justice muddles, civilization crumbles.
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746.
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● Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy
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Ezra 7:26
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Isaiah 26:10
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No mercy for the innocent without exacting justice.
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747.
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● Justice will be served
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Ps. 62:12
Jer. 17:10
Mal. 4:1
Mat. 7:1-2;
12:36
Mk. 4:24
Lk.6:38
Acts 17:31
Rom.2:1-3;
14:12
Heb.9:27
Rev.22:12
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The truth of God is justice.
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|
748.
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● Justice is blind
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Mat. 5:45
Acts 10:34
Rom. 10:12
Ep. 6:9
Gal. 2:6
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God will judge each as they are.
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749.
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● Born-again Christian (BAC)
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Zec.1:3
Jn.1:12-13;
3:3-7
Rom.8:19
Jm.1:18
1stPet.1:22-23
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Return, come back to Me, calls the Lord.
|
|
750.
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● Let God be the judge
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Ps.50:6;
62:12
Jer.17:10;32:19
Ez.33:18-20
Acts 5:38-39;10:42
Rom.2:6-10;
14:7-13
1stCor.6:1-8;
11:31
2ndCor.5:10
Jn.12:48
Mat.16:27;
25:31-32
1stPet.1:17
Rev.2:23;
22:12
Ec.12:13-14
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God's judgment of true hearts
through Christ will be final and absolute.
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