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highlighted Romans 6:15 ESV
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 6:8 ESV
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 6:1-4 ESV
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 6:23 ESV
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 5:8 ESV
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 5:4-5 ESV
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Sep 28
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highlighted Romans 5:3 ESV
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
Sep 28
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highlighted 1 Peter 5:7-8 ESV
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Feb 20
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highlighted Romans 12:2 ESV
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Feb 20
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highlighted Genesis 30:38-39 ESV
He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:42-43 ESV
but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:21-30 ESV
Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!"As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.Name your wages, and I will give it."Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:18 ESV
Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:20 ESV
Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:16 ESV
When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:15 ESV
But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:6-13 ESV
Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.And Leah said, "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name Gad.Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:2 ESV
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:3 ESV
Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her."
Feb 12
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highlighted Genesis 30:1 ESV
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"
Feb 12