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James 1:2-4 NRSVUE[2]  My brothers and sisters, whenever you face various trials, consider it all joy, [3] because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. [4] And let endurance complete its work, so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing. https://bible.com/bible/3523/jas.1.2-4.NRSVUE Trials are by definition testing with outcomes. I […]

2 Corinthians 11:3-4 NRSVUE[3] But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. [4] For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one … …

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NRSVUE[16] Rejoice always, [17] pray without ceasing, [18] give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. https://bible.com/bible/3523/1th.5.16-18.NRSVUE I wish I knew just where it’s at at the moment, but my wife once gave me an apt, simple painting of a boy whose ice […]

Romans 8:31-39 NRSVUE[31]  What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? [32] He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? [33] Who will bring any charge […]

Esther 4:1-17 NRSVUE[1]  When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry; [2] he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. […]