And here’s the thing about God’s ways of handling money: They work. Those 2,500 verses give us a blueprint and teach us God’s ways of handling money. In fact, Scripture includes 2,500 verses about handling money and possessions. The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,Īnd the time of the dead, that they should be judged,Īnd that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,Īnd those who fear Your name, small and great,Īnd should destroy those who destroy the earth.The Bible definitely doesn’t shy away from talking about money. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God" for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.īut I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.ĭo not be deceived, God is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.Īnd everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. So a curse without cause shall not alight.įoods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, Is like a city broken down, without walls. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.Īnd wine that makes glad the heart of man, Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed. Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.īut hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,Īnd said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.īut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.Ī prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.ĭo you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Playlist: Go to the Stewardship of our Bodies (topic) playlistĭo you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh." But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
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