M.Melo.1969
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M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 25:7-8 NLT
It’s better to wait for an invitation to the head table than to be sent away in public disgrace. Just because you’ve seen something, don’t be in a hurry to go to court. For what will you do in the end if your neighbor deals you a shameful defeat?
May 22
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 8:21 NLT
We are careful to be honorable before the Lord, but we also want everyone else to see that we are honorable.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 7:10 NLT
For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 7:1 NLT
Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 24:27 NLT
Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 24:16 NLT
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 24:8 NLT
A person who plans evil will get a reputation as a troublemaker.
May 21
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 NLT
Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
May 20
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:8 NLT
We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors.
May 20
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:3 NLT
We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry.
May 20
M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 23:4 NLT
Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit.
May 20
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 NLT
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:10 NLT
For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:5 NLT
God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:1 NLT
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NLT
For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted 2 Corinthians 4:4 NLT
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
May 19
M.Melo.1969
highlighted Proverbs 22:26 NLT
Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else.
May 19