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Boasting » What not to boast of
Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money." You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." read more.
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
death » Preparation for
If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.
I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.
"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.
During this time, Hezekiah became sick with a fatal illness, so Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, approached him and told him, "This is what the LORD says: "Put your household in order, because you are dying. You will not survive.'"
"While someone is among the living, hope remains," because "it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion."
If we live, we live to honor the Lord; and if we die, we die to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.
For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
teach us to keep account of our days so we may develop inner wisdom.
Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.
How sweet is the daylight, and how pleasant it is for someone's eyes to behold the sunshine! Even if a person lives many years, let him enjoy them all, recalling that there will be many days of darkness to come all of which are pointless.
For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. The living yes the living they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness.
"You must keep your belts fastened and your lamps burning. Be like people who are waiting for their master to return from a wedding. As soon as he arrives and knocks, they will open the door for him. How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.
Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."
Evil » What is evil
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money." You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." read more.
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.
"Indeed, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it? I am the LORD who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds.
Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.
The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.
Verse Concepts
There is a tragedy that infects everything that happens on earth: a common event happens to everyone. In fact, the hearts of human beings are full of evil. Madness remains in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.
Here's another tragedy that I've observed on earth, a kind of error that comes from an overseer: Foolishness is given great honor, while the prosperous sit in lowly places. And I have observed servants riding on horses, while princes walk on the ground like servants.
God » Will of, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.
Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money." You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.
Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."
Will » God's, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.
Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."