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"As long as Uzziah sought the LORD, God gave him success. ... But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall." --2 Chronicles 26:5b,16a (NIV)

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"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all." --2 Cor 4:17 (NIV)

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"When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, 'He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.'” – Genesis 5:28-29 (NIV)

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"Know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." --Acts 4:10-12 (NIV)

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"The Lord said to Moses, 'Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.'" – Exodus 34:1 (NIV)

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"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things." --Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NIV)

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"Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." --Matthew 6:33 (NIV)

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"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." --1 John 4:18

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"I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." --Isaiah 12:1-2

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"This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him." --Acts 2:23-24 (NIV)

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"Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" --Amos 5:24 (NIV)

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"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." --Romans 12:3-5 (NIV)

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Just a little something to help start the new year off on the right foot...

No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.  --Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)

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"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our 'God is a consuming fire.'"--Hebrews 12:28-29 (NIV)

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^"Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth," --Luke 1:11-14 (NIV)

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“And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven” -- Luke 1:76-78 (NIV)

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"Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." --Ephesians 5:2 (NIV)

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"Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless -- not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it." --Titus 1:7-9 (NIV)

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"You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder." – James 2:19 (NIV)

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“I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.” -- Isaiah 43:11-12 (NIV)