Lisa G Akins
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Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Dec 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Dec 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hosea 6:1 ESV
"Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
Dec 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Peter 1:22-25 ESV
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Dec 17
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hosea 2:23 ESV
and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'"
Dec 17
Lisa G Akins
highlighted James 3:17-18 ESV
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Dec 16
Lisa G Akins
highlighted James 1:3-4 ESV
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Dec 15
Lisa G Akins
highlighted James 1:2 ESV
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Dec 15
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 13:2 ESV
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Dec 14
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 12:24 ESV
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Dec 14
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 12:7 ESV
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Dec 14
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Psalms 133:1 ESV
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Dec 14
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Daniel 9:23 ESV
At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
Dec 14
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Psalms 130:5 ESV
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
Dec 11
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 8:12 ESV
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
Dec 10
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 8:10-11 ESV
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
Dec 10
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Hebrews 6:19-20 ESV
We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Dec 9
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
Dec 3
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 1 Timothy 4:4-5 ESV
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Dec 3
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Ezekiel 33:11 ESV
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Dec 2