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2 Timothy 3:16-17(NIV)
"16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
I thought that it would be a good idea to write down passages and verses in the Bible that are good for doing just what 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says.
Acts 4:12
12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."(NIV)
Isaiah 52:7
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
"Your God reigns!"(NIV)
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
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According to his law, I was an outcast and a traitor.
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This is my story.
It is a story of good and evil, love and hate, passion and peace, suffering and sacrifice. It is an adventure, a romance - my metamorphosis, and my song.
It is no less than my story, but it can be very much more, depending on the reader.
The land I lived in was ruled by a King. He was good and gracious, just and perfect - and I hated the very sound of his name. I lived my life outside of his laws, calling down curses on his name, because I despised him. Because he was the King - he was in control, not me. Because he was just, and I had broken his laws too many times to count. Because I wanted his position.
I could never be like him, but I didn't want to be. All I wanted was to have his power, to be the one who made the laws. According to his law, I was an outcast and traitor.
I saw only one way to change that.
There were many, many more like me, and still are, and I gathered them together. Under my leadership we became a rebellion, but it was I who planned our every move, gathered resources and dreamed about the day I would kill the King and set myself up in his place. Of all the...
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I'll start by saying this was none of my work.
The Bible says God loves us and made us to know and enjoy Him. But our determination to ignore God and live our own way has cut us off from Him. It says this in Isaiah 59:2, “Your sin has cut you off from God”. No wonder we often feel like there is something missing in our lives! Every day we offend God with our actions, words and even thoughts. The Bible calls this sin. Examples can be lying, stealing, commiting adultery.
We've all done it, and God says that this is wrong and that it deserves punishment. Romans 6:23 says "The wages of sin is death."
Amazingly, God still loves us! So He gave us his own Son Jesus who had no sin to die in our place on the cross. He took our punishment. John 3:16 says “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” We know this is true because Jesus rose from the dead. Now Jesus offers forgiveness and a brand new life to anyone who will turn to Him
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