Daily Scripture Blog

Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

Habakkuk 2:4 (New Living Translation)

See, he is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous will live by his faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 (New International Version)

Look at that man, bloated by self-importance—
full of himself but soul-empty.
But the person in right standing before God
through loyal and steady believing
is fully alive, really alive.

Habakkuk 2:4 (The Message)

Tags: Trust

Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other;
let us show the truth by our actions.

1 John 3:18 (New Living Translation)

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1 John 3:18 (New International Version)

My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love.

1 John 3:18 (The Message)

Tags: love

by Rick Warren

Love is something you do. Do you really love someone? Let’s see how you act toward that person. You show love by what you do, not just by what you feel.

Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It’s also more than sentimentality, like so many of today’s songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No, not at all. Because love is an action; love is a behavior.

Over and over again, in the Bible, God commands us to love each other. And you can’t command an emotion. If I told you “Be sad!” right now, you couldn’t be sad on cue. Just like an actor, you can fake it, but you’re not wired for your emotions to change on command. Have you ever told a little kid, “Be happy!” I’m trying, daddy!

If love were just an emotion, then God couldn’t command it. But love is something you do. It can produce emotion, but love is an action.

The Bible says, “Let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions” (1 John 3:18 NLT). We can talk a good act: “I love people.” But do we really love them? Do you really love them? Our love is revealed in how we act toward them.

Tags: love

But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.

Romans 2:10 (New Living Translation)

But glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 2:10 (New King James Version)

But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. Being a Jew won’t give you an automatic stamp of approval.

Romans 2:10 (The Message)

Tags: peace

God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (New Living Translation)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version)

God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (The Message)

Tags: grace