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Wednesday- Don't make friends with anyone  who  has a bad tem per. Proverbs 22:24

An angry person stirs up conflict and a hot-tempered person commits many sins. Proverbs 29:22.

monday and tuesday

Monday For all sinned and full short of the glory of God being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus Romans 3:23-24

Tuesday  My grace is sufficient for you for My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9.

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Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ...

1 Corinthians 7:1-7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

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vMalachi 3:8-9 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

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Isaiah 16:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. “Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive; let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.” ...

Isaiah 29:1-24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round. Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel. And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you. And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper. But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly, ...

Isaiah 23:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you. And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations. Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: “I have neither labored nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women.” When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre. ...

Isaiah 15:1-9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn; in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears. Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles. My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction; ...

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Matthew 24:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Luke 18:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

John 1:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

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After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said,“Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance ofjasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne cameflashes of lightning, and rumblings^[a] and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.

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Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 169 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Romans 5:4 ESV / 93 helpful votes

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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God told Samuel I decided that that King Saul won't be king much longer. One of Jesse's sons will be Israel's king. Go to Jesse's house Anoint this new king.

So Samuel traveled to Jesse's house Jesse called his sons together

Samuel met the oldest who was tall and strong

But Samuel shook his head no He was not the one God had chosen.

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And we have seen and testify that the father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

Jesus said I am good shepherd.

Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

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Exodus 3:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

John 14:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 15:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 8:58 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

John 6:47-50 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

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THEY WANDRED IN WILDERNESS IN A DESERT REGION THEY DID NOT FIND A WAY TO AN INHABITED CITY THEY WERE HUNGRY AND THIRTY WHOEVER DRINKS OF THE WATER THAT I JESUS SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL  NEVER THIRST BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BECOME IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE.

I HAVE NOT FOUND SO GREAT FAITH.  WITH GOCD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.

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Journal notes #3'

Adam lives in the Garden

The man God created was named Adam. God planted a in garden Eden.

Four rivers ran through it. Beautiful plants and trees grew there. They were good for food.

God told Adam to take care of    the garden.

What was the name of Adam's home?

Name of Adam's home was Garden of Eden.

Who gave  names all the animals?

Adam gave names all the animals.

Next God  created the animals and birds out of the dust. He brought them to the and Adam This is not good for Adam be alone. God said I will make someone to be with Adam and to help him So He created Eve.

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So David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

He ruled Israel for forty years in all seven years from

Hebron and thirty three years from Jerusalem He died

at a ripe old age having enjoyed long life wealth and honor.

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Journal note lesson 2

The Lord's prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

Our Father who  is in heaven,.  Let your name be treated  as holy Let your kingdom come let your will be done on earth as it is heaven  gives us our food for the day and forgive us our debts as we have forgiven day  our debts  as we have forgiven our debts. As  we  have forgive our debtors and don't lead us into temptation  but us from the evil one for you belong the kingdom and the power and the splendor forever. Amen.

God creates the Earth

Genesis 1:20-2,3

God created  all animals on fifth day.

God created everything that lives in the sea and flies in the sky.

God blessed them.

God saw that all this was good.

Journal homework question and  answer 2

Q: On fifth day God spoke again__________ ''I want the seas to be filled with living things  I want birds to fly in the sky.''

A:He said.

Q:How many days did God use for creation?

A:God used for creation six days.

Q:What did God do on the seventh day?

A: On seventh day God rested.

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Note  journal lesson 1:

God creates the Earth

Genesis 1:1-19

The earth is very old. No one knows when it was made. But God  has always been alive.

God saw that the light  was good.

He called  the light day and darkness Night.

God created dry land to come out of the waters.

Journal Homework lesson  1

Q: Who created heaven and earth?

A:God  created  heaven and earth.

Q:What lived on the earth before the  first day?

A:  Nothing lived on the earth before the first day.

Q: God said''Let there be ______________'', and there was_________.

A: Light.

Q: What did God create on the second day?

A:God created the sky on second day.

Q: What did God  name land and waters?

A:God named the land Earth and waters Sea.

Q:Name some  things God created in the first four days.

sun moon stars green plants  heaven and earth,

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Paul's Visions and His Thorn

I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses— though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,^[a] a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Concern for the Corinthian Church

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles,even though I am nothing. The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit. Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.

Footnotes:

2 Corinthians 12:7 Or hears from me, even because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited

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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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What I remember verses from the bible 2008 to 2016

Never stop praying

Do not worry about your life

Rejoice in the Lord I will again Rejoice.

My grace is enough for you.

Be careful and be wise.

The Lord loves you.

In the beginning  God made heaven and earth.

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not in want

the cross is power of God.

Forget the past and look for future.

I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.

Do not worry about tomorrow.

Do not talk bad word with people

See no evil Hear no evil Speak no evil.

Be patient with everyone.

When I am afraid I will trust in you.

Jesus said on the cross it is finished.

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Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 796 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Philippians 4:6-8 ESV / 682 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 469 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 440 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 425 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 308 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

James 5:15 ESV / 299 helpful votes

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 277 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

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Come  to me all you who  are weary and burdened and I will give  you rest.

Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.

Let the Children Come to Me

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

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Psalm 17:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,

Psalm 17:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped. ...

Genesis 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

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Submit Yourselves to God

1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 

2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 

4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ? 

6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 

9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. 

11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 

12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 

14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 

15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 

16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 

17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

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Luke 4:4English Standard Version (ESV)

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”

Proverbs 30:5-6English Standard Version (ESV)

Every word of God proves true;
    he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Do not add to his words,
    lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.

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Genesis 1:27English Standard Version (ESV)

So God created man in his own image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them.

1 Timothy 5:8English Standard Version (ESV)

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially formembers of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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God is unchanging or immutable.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8, ESV, Psalm 102:25-27; Hebrews 1:10-12)

God is sovereign.

"How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!" (2 Samuel 7:22, NLT; Isaiah 46:9-11)

God is wise.

By wisdom the Lord founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens. (Proverbs 3:19, NLT; Romans 16:26-27; 1 Timothy 1:17)

God is holy.

^"Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy." (Leviticus 19:2, ESV; 1 Peter 1:15)

God is righteous and just.

For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face. (Psalm 11:7, ESV; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 119:137)

God is faithful.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations...(Deuteronomy 7:9, ESV; Psalm 89:1-8)

God is true and truth.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6, ESV; Psalm 31:5; John 17:3; Titus 1:1-2)

God is good.

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. (Psalm 25:8, ESV; Psalm 34:8; Mark 10:18)

God is merciful.

For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them. (Deuteronomy 4:31, ESV; Psalm 103:8-17; Daniel 9:9; Hebrews 2:17)

God is gracious.

Exodus 34:6 (ESV)

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness..." (Exodus 34:6, ESV; Psalm 103:8; 1 Peter 5:10)

God is love.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16, ESV; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:8)

God is spirit.

"God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24, ESV)

God is light.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (James 1:17, ESV; 1 John 1:5)

God is triune or trinity.

^"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (Matthew 28:19, ESV; 2 Corinthians 13:14)

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The Coming of the Holy Spirit

When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.

There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world. When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because all of them heard the believers talking in their own languages. In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, “These people who are talking like this are Galileans! How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia, from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome,both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia—yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!” Amazed and confused, they kept asking each other, “What does this mean?”

But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!”

Peter's Message

Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means. These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning. Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says:
    I will pour out my Spirit on everyone.
Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message;
    your young men will see visions,
    and your old men will have dreams.
Yes, even on my servants, both men and women,
    I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
    and they will proclaim my message.
I will perform miracles in the sky above
    and wonders on the earth below.
There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke;
    the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will turn red as blood,
    before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.
And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.’

“Listen to these words, fellow Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you. In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him. But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner. For David said about him,

‘I saw the Lord before me at all times;
    he is near me, and I will not be troubled.
And so I am filled with gladness,
    and my words are full of joy.
And I, mortal though I am,
    will rest assured in hope,
because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead;
    you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.
You have shown me the paths that lead to life,
    and your presence will fill me with joy.’

“My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day. He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was. David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said,

‘He was not abandoned in the world of the dead;
    his body did not rot in the grave.’
God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact. He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us. For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said,
‘The Lord said to my Lord:
    Sit here at my right side
until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.’

“All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!”

When the people heard this, they were deeply troubled and said to Peter and the other apostles, “What shall we do, brothers?”

Peter said to them, “Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit. For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away—all whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Peter made his appeal to them and with many other words he urged them, saying, “Save yourselves from the punishment coming on this wicked people!” Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

Good News Translation (GNT)