Candace Smith
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Candace Smith
highlighted Job 16:4-6 NLT
I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you. But if it were me, I would encourage you. I would try to take away your grief. Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
Jan 12
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 12:13 NLT
“But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are his.
Jan 12
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 11:11 NLT
For he knows those who are false, and he takes note of all their sins.
Jan 12
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 9:24 NLT
The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked, and God blinds the eyes of the judges. If he’s not the one who does it, who is?
Jan 12
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 5:18 NLT
For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
Jan 12
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 9:13 NLT
I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.
Jan 5
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 8:22 NLT
As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
Jan 5
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 6:4 NLT
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 6:3 NLT
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 5:23-24 NLT
Enoch lived 365 years, walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 4:7 NLT
You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 3:23-24 NLT
So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 3:16-17 NLT
Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Genesis 2:22-24 NLT
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Jan 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Ecclesiastes 12:1 NLT
Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.”
Oct 30
Candace Smith
highlighted Proverbs 1:1-7 NLT
These are the proverbs of Solomon, David’s son, king of Israel. Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. These proverbs will give insight to the simple, knowledge and discernment to the young. Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the words of the wise and their riddles. Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Oct 30
Candace Smith
highlighted Matthew 6:4 NLT
Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.
Oct 2
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 36:16 NLT
“God is leading you away from danger, Job, to a place free from distress. He is setting your table with the best food.
Jul 6
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highlighted Job 36:15 NLT
But by means of their suffering, he rescues those who suffer. For he gets their attention through adversity.
Jul 6
Candace Smith
highlighted Job 36:11-12 NLT
“If they listen and obey God, they will be blessed with prosperity throughout their lives. All their years will be pleasant. But if they refuse to listen to him, they will cross over the river of death, dying from lack of understanding.
Jul 6