Maria Esther Torres
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:14 ESV
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted 1 Corinthians 14:5 ESV
Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:10 ESV
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:9 ESV
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:7 ESV
I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:4 ESV
You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:5 ESV
Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 119:2 ESV
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:30 ESV
Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life."
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:29 ESV
This shall be the sign to you, declares the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:28 ESV
And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:26 ESV
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the Lord God lives.'
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:25 ESV
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, 'We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.' Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:23 ESV
It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey the voice of the Lord or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day."
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:22 ESV
The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:20 ESV
Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:19 ESV
And the women said, "When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:18 ESV
But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."
Jan 4
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 44:17 ESV
But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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