Hos.8.1

"Blow the trumpet! Sound the alarm! Vultures are circling over God's people Who have broken my covenant and defied my revelation.

Hos.8.1

"Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Hos.8.1

"Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.

Hos.8.1

"Sound the alarm! The enemy descends like an eagle on the people of the LORD, for they have broken my covenant and revolted against my law.

Hos.8.2

Predictably, Israel cries out, "My God! We know you!' But they don't act like it.

Hos.8.2

Israel cries out to me, 'O our God, we acknowledge you!'

Hos.8.2

Israel will cry to Me, "My God, we know You!'

Hos.8.2

Now Israel pleads with me, `Help us, for you are our God!'

Hos.8.3

Israel will have nothing to do with what's good, and now the enemy is after them.

Hos.8.3

But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

Hos.8.3

Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

Hos.8.3

But it is too late! The people of Israel have rejected what is good, and now their enemies will chase after them.

Hos.8.4

"They crown kings, but without asking me. They set up princes but don't let me in on it. Instead, they make idols, using silver and gold, idols that will be their ruin.

Hos.8.4

They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.

Hos.8.4

"They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves-- That they might be cut off.

Hos.8.4

The people have appointed kings and princes, but not with my consent. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.

Hos.8.5

Throw that gold calf-god on the trash heap, Samaria! I'm seething with anger against that rubbish! How long before they shape up?

Hos.8.5

Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

Hos.8.5

Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them-- How long until they attain to innocence?

Hos.8.5

"O Samaria, I reject this calf--this idol you have made. My fury burns against you. How long will you be incapable of innocence?

Hos.8.6

And they're Israelites! A sculptor made that thing--it's not God. That Samaritan calf will be broken to bits.

Hos.8.6

They are from Israel! This calf-a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Hos.8.6

For from Israel is even this: A workman made it, and it is not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.

Hos.8.6

This calf you worship was crafted by your own hands! It is not God! Therefore, it must be smashed to bits.

Hos.8.7

Look at them! Planting wind-seeds, they'll harvest tornadoes. Wheat with no head produces no flour. And even if it did, strangers would gulp it down.

Hos.8.7

"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

Hos.8.7

"They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up.

Hos.8.7

"They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of wheat wither, producing no grain. And if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.

Hos.8.8

Israel is swallowed up and spit out. Among the pagans they're a piece of junk.

Hos.8.8

Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing.

Hos.8.8

Israel is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.

Hos.8.8

The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old pot that no one wants.

Hos.8.9

They trotted off to Assyria: Why, even wild donkeys stick to their own kind, but donkey-Ephraim goes out and pays to get lovers.

Hos.8.9

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

Hos.8.9

For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

Hos.8.9

Like a wild donkey looking for a mate, they have gone up to Assyria. The people of Israel have sold themselves to many lovers.

Hos.8.10

Now, because of their whoring life among the pagans, I'm going to gather them together and confront them. They're going to reap the consequences soon, feel what it's like to be oppressed by the big king.

Hos.8.10

Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

Hos.8.10

Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gather them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes.

Hos.8.10

But though they have sold themselves to many lands, I will now gather them together. Then they will writhe under the burden of the great king!

Hos.8.11

"Ephraim has built a lot of altars, and then uses them for sinning. Can you believe it? Altars for sinning!

Hos.8.11

"Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.

Hos.8.11

"Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning.

Hos.8.11

"Israel has built many altars to take away sin, but these very altars became places for sinning!

Hos.8.12

I write out my revelation for them in detail and they pretend they can't read it.

Hos.8.12

I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien.

Hos.8.12

I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.

Hos.8.12

Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don't apply to them.

Hos.8.13

They offer sacrifices to me and then they feast on the meat. GOD is not pleased! I'm fed up--I'll keep remembering their guilt. I'll punish their sins and send them back to Egypt.

Hos.8.13

They offer sacrifices given to me and they eat the meat, but the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Hos.8.13

For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

Hos.8.13

The people of Israel love their rituals of sacrifice, but to me their sacrifices are all meaningless! I will call my people to account for their sins, and I will punish them. They will go back down to Egypt.

Hos.8.14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and gotten busy making palaces. Judah has gone in for a lot of fortress cities. I'm sending fire on their cities to burn down their fortifications."

Hos.8.14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses."

Hos.8.14

"For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."

Hos.8.14

"Israel has built great palaces, and Judah has fortified its cities. But they have both forgotten their Maker. Therefore, I will send down fire on their palaces and burn their fortresses."

Hos.9.1

Don't waste your life in wild orgies, Israel. Don't party away your life with the heathen. You walk away from your God at the drop of a hat and like a whore sell yourself promiscuously at every sex-and-religion party on the street.

Hos.9.1

Do not rejoice, O Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.

Hos.9.1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

Hos.9.1

O people of Israel, do not rejoice as others do. For you have been unfaithful to your God, hiring yourselves out like prostitutes, offering sacrifices to other gods on every threshing floor.

Hos.9.2

All that party food won't fill you up. You'll end up hungrier than ever.

Hos.9.2

Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.

Hos.9.2

The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.

Hos.9.2

So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. The grapes you gather will not quench your thirst.

Hos.9.3

At this rate you'll not last long in GOD's land: Some of you are going to end up bankrupt in Egypt. Some of you will be disillusioned in Assyria.

Hos.9.3

They will not remain in the LORD's land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

Hos.9.3

They shall not dwell in the LORD's land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Hos.9.3

You may no longer stay here in this land of the LORD. You will be carried off to Egypt and Assyria, where you will live on food that is ceremonially unclean.

Hos.9.4

As refugees in Egypt and Assyria, you won't have much chance to worship GOD- Sentenced to rations of bread and water, and your souls polluted by the spirit-dirty air. You'll be starved for GOD, exiled from GOD's own country.

Hos.9.4

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

Hos.9.4

They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.

Hos.9.4

There, far from home, you will not be allowed to pour out wine as a sacrifice to the LORD. None of the sacrifices you offer there will please him. Such sacrifices will be unclean, just as food touched by a person in mourning is unclean. All who present such sacrifices will be defiled. They may eat this food to feed themselves, but they may not offer it to the LORD.

Hos.9.5

Will you be homesick for the old Holy Days? Will you miss festival worship of GOD?

Hos.9.5

What will you do on the day of your appointed feasts, on the festival days of the LORD?

Hos.9.5

What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD?

Hos.9.5

What then will you do on festival days? What will you do on days of feasting in the LORD's presence?

Hos.9.6

Be warned! When you escape from the frying pan of disaster, you'll fall into the fire of Egypt. Egypt will give you a fine funeral! What use will all your god-inspired silver be then as you eke out a living in a field of weeds? [JC]

Hos.9.6

Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.

Hos.9.6

For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.

Hos.9.6

Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, you will be conquered by Egypt. Memphis will bury you. Briers will take over your treasures of silver; brambles will fill your homes.

Hos.9.7

Time's up. Doom's at the doorstep. It's payday! Did Israel bluster, "The prophet is crazy! The "man of the Spirit' is nuts!"? Think again. Because of your great guilt, you're in big trouble.

Hos.9.7

The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired man a maniac.

Hos.9.7

The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

Hos.9.7

The time of Israel's punishment has come; the day of payment is almost here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. "The prophets are crazy!" the people shout. "The inspired men are mad!" So they taunt, for the nation is burdened with sin and shows only hatred for those who love God.

Hos.9.8

The prophet is looking out for Ephraim, working under God's orders. But everyone is trying to trip him up. He's hated right in God's house, of all places.

Hos.9.8

The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Hos.9.8

The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler's snare in all his ways-- Enmity in the house of his God.

Hos.9.8

The prophet is a watchman for my God over Israel, yet traps are laid in front of him wherever he goes. He faces hostility even in the house of God.

Hos.9.9

The people are going from bad to worse, rivaling that ancient and unspeakable crime at Gibeah. God's keeping track of their guilt. He'll make them pay for their sins.

Hos.9.9

They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.

Hos.9.9

They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

Hos.9.9

The things my people do are as depraved as what they did in Gibeah long ago. God will not forget. He will surely punish them for their sins.

Hos.9.10

"Long ago when I came upon Israel, it was like finding grapes out in the desert. When I found your ancestors, it was like finding a fig tree bearing fruit for the first time. But when they arrived at Baal-peor, that pagan shrine, they took to sin like a pig to filth, wallowing in the mud with their newfound friends.

Hos.9.10

"When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your fathers, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.

Hos.9.10

"I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

Hos.9.10

The LORD says, "O Israel, when I first found you, it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert! When I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season! But then they deserted me for Baal-peor, giving themselves to that shameful idol. Soon they became as vile as the god they worshiped.

Hos.9.11

Ephraim is fickle and scattered, like a flock of blackbirds, their beauty dissipated in confusion and clamor, Frenetic and noisy, frigid and barren, and nothing to show for it--neither conception nor childbirth.

Hos.9.11

Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

Hos.9.11

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

Hos.9.11

The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived.

Hos.9.12

Even if they did give birth, I'd declare them unfit parents and take away their children! Yes indeed--a black day for them when I turn my back and walk off!

Hos.9.12

Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

Hos.9.12

Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

Hos.9.12

Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.

Hos.9.13

I see Ephraim letting his children run wild. He might just as well take them and kill them outright!"

Hos.9.13

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer."

Hos.9.13

Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place, So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."

Hos.9.13

I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered."

Hos.9.14

Give it to them, GOD! But what? Give them a dried-up womb and shriveled breasts.

Hos.9.14

Give them, O LORD - what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

Hos.9.14

Give them, O LORD-- What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!

Hos.9.14

O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk.

Hos.9.15

"All their evil came out into the open at the pagan shrine at Gilgal. Oh, how I hated them there! Because of their evil practices, I'll kick them off my land. I'm wasting no more love on them. Their leaders are a bunch of rebellious adolescents.

Hos.9.15

"Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

Hos.9.15

"All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

Hos.9.15

The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.

Hos.9.16

Ephraim is hit hard--roots withered, no more fruit. Even if by some miracle they had children, the dear babies wouldn't live--I'd make sure of that!"

Hos.9.16

Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring."

Hos.9.16

Ephraim is stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb."

Hos.9.16

The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children."

Hos.9.17

My God has washed his hands of them. They wouldn't listen. They're doomed to be wanderers, vagabonds among the godless nations.

Hos.9.17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Hos.9.17

My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hos.9.17

My God will reject the people of Israel because they will not listen or obey. They will be wanderers, homeless among the nations.

Rom.8.1

With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.

Rom.8.1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

Rom.8.1

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Rom.8.1

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Rom.8.2

A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

Rom.8.2

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

Rom.8.2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Rom.8.2

For the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death.

Rom.8.3

God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it.

Rom.8.3

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,

Rom.8.3

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

Rom.8.3

The law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

Rom.8.4

And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

Rom.8.4

in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

Rom.8.4

that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Rom.8.4

He did this so that the requirement of the law would be fully accomplished for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

Rom.8.5

Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them--living and breathing God!

Rom.8.5

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

Rom.8.5

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Rom.8.5

Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.

Rom.8.6

Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.

Rom.8.6

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

Rom.8.6

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom.8.6

If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace.

Rom.8.7

Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.

Rom.8.7

the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

Rom.8.7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

Rom.8.7

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.

Rom.8.8

And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Rom.8.8

Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

Rom.8.8

So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Rom.8.8

That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

Rom.8.9

But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about.

Rom.8.9

You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Rom.8.9

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Rom.8.9

But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.)

Rom.8.10

But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells--even though you still experience all the limitations of sin--you yourself experience life on God's terms.

Rom.8.10

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Rom.8.10

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom.8.10

Since Christ lives within you, even though your body will die because of sin, your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God.

Rom.8.11

It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!

Rom.8.11

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

Rom.8.11

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Rom.8.11

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as he raised Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal body by this same Spirit living within you.

Rom.8.12

So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it--yourself life one red cent.

Rom.8.12

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.

Rom.8.12

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors--not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Rom.8.12

So, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation whatsoever to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.

Rom.8.13

There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life.

Rom.8.13

For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

Rom.8.13

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Rom.8.13

For if you keep on following it, you will perish. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live.

Rom.8.14

God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!

Rom.8.14

because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Rom.8.14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Rom.8.14

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

Rom.8.15

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?"

Rom.8.15

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."

Rom.8.15

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

Rom.8.15

So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father."

Rom.8.16

God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children.

Rom.8.16

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

Rom.8.16

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Rom.8.16

For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children.

Rom.8.17

And we know we are going to get what's coming to us--an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him! [JC]

Rom.8.17

Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Rom.8.17

and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Rom.8.17

And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

Prov.17.25

A surly, stupid child is sheer pain to a father, a bitter pill for a mother to swallow.

Prov.17.25

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Prov.17.25

A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

Prov.17.25

A foolish child brings grief to a father and bitterness to a mother.

Prov.17.26

It's wrong to penalize good behavior, or make good citizens pay for the crimes of others.

Prov.17.26

It is not good to punish an innocent man, or to flog officials for their integrity.

Prov.17.26

Also, to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to strike princes for their uprightness.

Prov.17.26

It is wrong to fine the godly for being good or to punish nobles for being honest!

Prov.17.27

The one who knows much says little; an understanding person remains calm.

Prov.17.27

A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered.

Prov.17.27

He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

Prov.17.27

A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered.

Prov.17.28

Even dunces who keep quiet are thought to be wise; as long as they keep their mouths shut, they're smart.

Prov.17.28

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Prov.17.28

Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

Prov.17.28

Even fools are thought to be wise when they keep silent; when they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.

Prov.18.1

Loners who care only for themselves spit on the common good.

Prov.18.1

An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment.

Prov.18.1

A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

Prov.18.1

A recluse is self-indulgent, snarling at every sound principle of conduct.

Prov.18.2

Fools care nothing for thoughtful discourse; all they do is run off at the mouth.

Prov.18.2

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Prov.18.2

A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.

Prov.18.2

Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.

Prov.18.3

When wickedness arrives, shame's not far behind; contempt for life is contemptible.

Prov.18.3

When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace.

Prov.18.3

When the wicked comes, contempt comes also; And with dishonor comes reproach.

Prov.18.3

When the wicked arrive, contempt, shame, and disgrace are sure to follow.

Prov.18.4

Many words rush along like rivers in flood, but deep wisdom flows up from artesian springs.

Prov.18.4

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

Prov.18.4

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

Prov.18.4

A person's words can be life-giving water; words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook.

Prov.18.5

It's not right to go easy on the guilty, or come down hard on the innocent.

Prov.18.5

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the innocent of justice.

Prov.18.5

It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

Prov.18.5

It is wrong for a judge to favor the guilty or condemn the innocent.

Prov.18.6

The words of a fool start fights; do him a favor and gag him.

Prov.18.6

A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

Prov.18.6

A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for blows.

Prov.18.6

Fools get into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating.