Lisa G Akins
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Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
Nov 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ESV
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"—
Nov 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Nov 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Corinthians 1:23 ESV
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
Nov 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Corinthians 1:20 ESV
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Nov 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 ESV
To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:10 ESV
who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV
that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV
by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 2:7 ESV
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Acts 18:28 ESV
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Acts 17:11-12 ESV
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
Nov 28
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Galatians 6:9 ESV
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Nov 26
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Galatians 5:13-15 ESV
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Nov 26
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Galatians 4:4-6 ESV
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Nov 26
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Galatians 3:25-27 ESV
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Nov 25