Takeya53's Highlights
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 5:2 NLT
Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters.
May 7
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 5:17 NLT
Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.
May 7
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 6:8 NLT
So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
May 6
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 6:7 NLT
After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.
May 6
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:10 NLT
For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
May 6
Takeya53
highlighted 1 Timothy 2:9 NLT
And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes.
May 6
Takeya53
highlighted 2 Corinthians 11:30 NLT
If I must boast, I would rather boast about the things that show how weak I am.
May 2
Takeya53
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.
Apr 30
Takeya53
highlighted 2 Corinthians 6:7 NLT
We faithfully preach the truth. God’s power is working in us. We use the weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for defense.
Apr 30
Takeya53
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:20 NLT
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
Apr 30
Takeya53
highlighted 2 Corinthians 5:18 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.
Apr 30
Takeya53
highlighted Ezekiel 18:23 NLT
“Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
Apr 28
Takeya53
highlighted Ezekiel 16:33 NLT
Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.
Apr 28
Takeya53
highlighted Ezekiel 13:17 NLT
“Now, son of man, speak out against the women who prophesy from their own imaginations.
Apr 28
Takeya53
highlighted Jeremiah 12:5 NLT
“If racing against mere men makes you tired, how will you race against horses? If you stumble and fall on open ground, what will you do in the thickets near the Jordan?
Apr 25
Takeya53
highlighted Jeremiah 9:25 NLT
“A time is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will punish all those who are circumcised in body but not in spirit—
Apr 25
Takeya53
highlighted Jeremiah 9:24 NLT
But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the LORD who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Apr 25
Takeya53
highlighted Jeremiah 9:23 NLT
This is what the LORD says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches.
Apr 25
Takeya53
highlighted Jeremiah 8:20 NLT
“The harvest is finished, and the summer is gone,” the people cry, “yet we are not saved!”
Apr 25
Takeya53
highlighted Ezekiel 4:11 NLT
Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.
Apr 19