John 5:38
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38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.(A)
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1 John 2:14
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14 I write to you, children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young people,
because you are strong
and the word of God abides in you,
and you have overcome the evil one.(A)
John 12:44-48
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Summary of Jesus’s Teaching
44 Then Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me.(A) 45 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.(B) 46 I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.(C) 47 I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world but to save the world.(D) 48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,(E)
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Deuteronomy 6:6-9
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6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. 7 Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.(A) 8 Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem[a] on your forehead,(B) 9 and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.(C)
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James 1:21-22
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21 Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.(A)
22 But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.(B)
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John 15:7
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7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.(A)
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John 8:46-47
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46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”(A)
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John 8:37
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37 I know that you are descendants of Abraham, yet you look for an opportunity to kill me because there is no place in you for my word.
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John 5:46-47
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46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.(A) 47 But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”
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John 5:42-43
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42 But I know that you do not have the love of God in[a] you. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.
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John 3:17-21
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17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.(A) 18 Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.(B) 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.(C) 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(D) 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”[a](E)
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John 1:11
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11 He came to what was his own,[a] and his own people did not accept him.
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Isaiah 53:1-3
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53 Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(A)
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.(B)
3 He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity,
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
he was despised, and we held him of no account.(C)
Isaiah 49:7
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7 Thus says the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations,
the slave of rulers,
“Kings shall see and stand up;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”(A)
Proverbs 7:1-2
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The False Attractions of Adultery
7 My child, keep my words
and store up my commandments with you;(A)
2 keep my commandments and live;
keep my teachings as the apple[a] of your eye;(B)
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Proverbs 2:1-2
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The Value of Wisdom
2 My child, if you accept my words
and treasure up my commandments within you,(A)
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding,
Joshua 1:8
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8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.(A)
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Colossians 3:16
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16 Let the word of Christ[a] dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.[b](A)
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Psalm 119:11
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11 I treasure your word in my heart,
so that I may not sin against you.(A)
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