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1. Isaiah 30:21
(NIV)
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
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2. James 1:5-6
(NIV)
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
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3. Psalm 32:8
(NIV)
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
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4. Romans 12:1-2
(NIV)
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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5. Provers 11:28
(NIV)
A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump;
A God-shapes life is a flourishing tree
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For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace
6. Romans 8:6
(NIV)
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:
7. Numbers 6: 24-26
(NIV)
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
8. 2 Corinthians
(NIV)
Remember this-a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.
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10 But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
9. Job 23:10
(NIV)
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
10. Ephesians 3:20
(NIV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
11. 1 Corinthians 9:27
(NIV)
No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize
12. Isaiah 40:31
(NIV)
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
13. Isaiah 55:12
(NIV)
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
14. Psalm 1:1
(NIV)
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
15. Psalm 1:2
(NIV)
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
16. Psalm 1:3
(NIV)
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither-whatever they do prospers.
17. Psalm 1:4
(NIV)
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
18. Psalm 1:5
(NIV)
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
19. Psalm 1:6
(NIV)
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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Another version 6 Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.
20. Romans 8:6
(NIV)
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
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Jesus said, “Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.”
21. Matthew 16:25
(NIV)
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
22. Isiaiah 46:4
(NIV)
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
23. Psalms 92:14
(NIV)
They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
24. Zachariah 9:12
(NIV)
Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.
25. Zacharaiah 9:12
(NIV)
Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.
26. Isaiah 44:3-5a
(NIV)
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. One shall say, "I am the Lord's."
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Love is the culmination of all law
27. 1 John 4:16
(NIV)
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
28. Leviticus 19:18
(NIV)
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
29. Psalm 35:28
(NIV)
My tongue will express your charity, your praises all day long.
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