Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:16 ESV
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:15 ESV
I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:12 ESV
As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:11 ESV
"For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:10 ESV
Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:9 ESV
therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:8 ESV
As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:6 ESV
My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:4 ESV
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:3 ESV
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Ezekiel 34:2 ESV
"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
Jan 29
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 3:15 ESV
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 3:8 ESV
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:15 ESV
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:6 ESV
who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:5 ESV
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:2 ESV
for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:3 ESV
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
Jan 28
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:1 ESV
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
Jan 28