James 4:4 (MEV) You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Where is your loyalty, Christian? Are you seeking the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of this world? Are…
1 Corinthians 15:55-58 (WEL) 55 O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? [Hosea 13:14] 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved…
1 Compassion – Awareness, empathy, care, concern for others, kindness, and love. It starts with noticing needs resulting in wanting to relieve that need. Luke 7:13-15 (EHV) When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not cry.” 14 He went up to the open coffin, touched it, and…
1 Corinthians 14:6-8 (WEL) Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in an unknown language, how can I help you, unless I will speak to you by revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or doctrine? 7 Even lifeless things produce sound, whether flute or harp, but unless they give different tones, how will it be recognized…
1 Corinthians 13:8-13 (WEL) Love never ends, but whether prophecies, they will be done away with; or languages, they will stop; or knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is complete and whole comes, then that which is in…
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (WEL) Love is longsuffering and kind; love is not envious; love doesn’t brag about itself, is not haughty. 5 It doesn’t behave improperly, is not self-seeking; love isn’t easily aggravated, doesn’t keep a list of wrongs. 6 It doesn’t rejoice in injustice, but rejoices with the truth; 7 Bears all things,…
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (WEL) 1 If I speak in human and angel languages, but don’t have love, I become like a resonating gong or clashing cymbal. 2 If I have prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I could remove mountains but don’t have love,…
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 (WEL) 8 For the word of wisdom is given by the Spirit to one, to another the word of knowledge by that same Spirit. 9 To another faith by that same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by that same Spirit. 10 To another the working of miracles; to another…
1 Corinthians 11:10-16 (WEL) For this reason, the woman must have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is man without woman, nor woman without the man—in the Lord. 12 For as the woman was formed from the man, even so the man is also by the…
1 Corinthians 10:6-13 (WEL) Now these became our examples, for the purpose that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted. 7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play sinfully.” Exodus 32:6 8 Neither…