Lisa G Akins's Highlights
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 23:43 NLT
And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Nov 6
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 23:34 NLT
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.
Nov 6
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 19:42 NLT
“How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes.
Oct 25
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 17:10 NLT
In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 17:3-4 NLT
So watch yourselves! “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:29-30 NLT
“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:27 NLT
He replied, “What is impossible for people is possible with God.”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:25 NLT
In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:17 NLT
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:13 NLT
“But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:7-8 NLT
Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith?”
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 18:1 NLT
One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
Oct 24
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 16:18 NLT
“For example, a man who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery. And anyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.”
Oct 23
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 16:17 NLT
But that doesn’t mean that the law has lost its force. It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest point of God’s law to be overturned.
Oct 23
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 16:8 NLT
“The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light.
Oct 23
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 16:9 NLT
Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.
Oct 23
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 15:10 NLT
In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”
Oct 23
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 13:27 NLT
And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’
Oct 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 13:24 NLT
“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
Oct 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Luke 13:5 NLT
No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”
Oct 18