Vicki Stephens-Parent
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Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Isaiah 5:20 NASB
Woe to those who acall evil good, and good evil;
May 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Corinthians 6:1-6 NASB
Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and anot before the saints?Or ado you not know that bthe saints will judge cthe world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?aDo you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?aI say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his bbrethren,but brother goes to law with brother, and that before aunbelievers?
May 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Corinthians 6:7-8 NASB
Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. aWhy not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your abrethren.
May 22
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 11:7-8 NASB
Then Solomon built a high place for aChemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is east of Jerusalem, and for bMolech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 11:1-6 NASB
Now aKing Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, "aYou shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." Solomon held fast to these in love.aHe had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ahis heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.For Solomon went after aAshtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and after bMilcom the detestable idol of the Ammonites.Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not follow the Lord fully, as David his father had done.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:27-28 NASB
Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother."When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for athey saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:23-26 NASB
Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one'; and the other says, 'No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for ashe was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!"
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:19-22 NASB
"This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it."So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom."When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne."Then the other woman said, "No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." But the first woman said, "No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:17-18 NASB
The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house."It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:16 NASB
Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:15 NASB
Then aSolomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and bmade a feast for all his servants.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:11-14 NASB
God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and have anot asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,behold, aI have done according to your words. Behold, bI have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you."aI have also given you what you have not asked, both briches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days."aIf you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will bprolong your days."
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:10 NASB
It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:7-9 NASB
"Now, O Lord my God, aYou have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet bI am but a little child; cI do not know how to go out or come in."aYour servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, ba great people who are too many to be numbered or counted."So agive Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people bto discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:6 NASB
Then Solomon said, "aYou have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, baccording as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and cYou have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:5 NASB
aIn Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon bin a dream at night; and God said, "cAsk what you wish Me to give you."
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted 1 Kings 3:1-4 NASB
Then aSolomon formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter band brought her to the city of David cuntil he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and dthe wall around Jerusalem.aThe people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.Now aSolomon loved the Lord, bwalking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.aThe king went to bGibeon to sacrifice there, cfor that was the great high place; Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
May 8
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Acts 20:36-38 NASB
When he had said these things, he aknelt down and prayed with them all.And they began to weep aloud and aembraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,grieving especially over athe word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were baccompanying him to the ship.
May 4
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Acts 20:31-35 NASB
"Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of athree years I did not cease to admonish each one bwith tears."And now I acommend you to God and to bthe word of His grace, which is able to cbuild you up and to give you dthe inheritance among all those who are sanctified."aI have coveted no one's silver or gold or clothes."You yourselves know that athese hands ministered to my own needs and to the bmen who were with me."In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
May 4
Vicki Stephens-Parent
highlighted Acts 20:22-30 NASB
"And now, behold, bound by the Spirit, aI am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,except that athe Holy Spirit solemnly btestifies to me in every city, saying that cbonds and afflictions await me."But aI do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may bfinish my course and cthe ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to dtestify solemnly of the gospel of ethe grace of God."And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about apreaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face."Therefore, I testify to you this day that aI am innocent of the blood of all men."For I adid not shrink from declaring to you the whole bpurpose of God."Be on guard for yourselves and for all athe flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd bthe church of God which cHe purchased with His own blood."I know that after my departure asavage wolves will come in among you, not sparing bthe flock;and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away athe disciples after them.
May 4