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Joel 1:11-12

Joel 1:11-12

              Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil;        wail, O vinedressers,                    for the wheat and the barley,        because the harvest of the field has perished.              12       The vine dries up;        the fig tree languishes.                    Pomegranate, palm, and apple,        all the trees of the field are dried up,                    and gladness dries up        from […]

Proverbs 11:2-4

Proverbs 11:2-4

       When pride comes, then comes disgrace,        but with the humble is wisdom.              3       The integrity of the upright guides them,        but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.              4       Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,        but righteousness delivers from death.  The Proverbs are unique in that […]

Psalm 73:6-12

Psalm 73:6-12

Therefore pride is their necklace;        violence covers them as a garment.              7       Their eyes swell out through fatness;        their hearts overflow with follies.              8       They scoff and speak with malice;        loftily they threaten oppression.              9       They set their mouths against the heavens,        and their tongue struts […]

2 Corinthians 1:12

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.  Nowhere do we do more boasting than in our resumes. We inflate our accomplishments while minimizing our weaknesses. We […]

Isaiah 53:1-4

Isaiah 53:1-4

Who has believed what he has heard from us?        And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?              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,        and […]

Genesis 33:4-6

Genesis 33:4-6

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5 And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 Then the […]