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As i watch the race, i think of the time 10 years old i raced go-carts & the college age tenant helped me remove my helmet, all full of flattery. i had lapped everybody 3 times. he asked how i got so good. i blamed it on video games. it started out a good race earlier, but i fell asleep. i slept through yesterday's rocket launch up the road because i got up at 3a. Was that race God's telling me to pursue racing? i've always thought Granny's lying my promised truck was a dream was God's telling me to quit school & write 16/6.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutrace,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
2 Timothy 4:8
in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutthink,
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
2 Timothy 4:8
in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;read more.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutyears .
Revelation 21:5
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Micah 7:7
7 But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Isaiah 54:1-5
1 “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD. 2 “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. 3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. 4 “Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. 5 For your Maker is your husband— the LORD Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 40:31
31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutraced,
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 144
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Acts 17:26 ESV / 77
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Romans 2:11 ESV / 75
For God shows no partiality.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 63
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutcollege age,
Proverbs 8:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes. For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire …
2 Peter 3:15-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our …
1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 12 helpful votes. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the …
Galatians 1:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am …
whatdoestheBiblesayabouttenant,
Genesis 49:26 ESV / 2
The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Genesis 18:25 ESV / 2
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
whatdoestheBiblesayabouthelped,
Matthew 5:42 - Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Romans 15:1 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Proverbs 3:27 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do [it].
Acts 20:35 - I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutremove,
Ezekiel 16:42
42 Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.
1 Timothy 3:10
10 They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
Hebrews 10:36
36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised
whatdoestheBiblesayabouthelmet,
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 2
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Deuteronomy 4:19 ESV / 2
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutfull of flattery,
1 Kings 20:4
The king of Israel replied, “It is according to your word, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.”
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2 Samuel 9:8

Again he prostrated himself and said, “What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?”
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Daniel 6:7
All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutlapped,
Numbers 12:1-15 ESV / 2
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. ...
Exodus 40:1-38 ESV / 2
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil. And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. ...
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutgood,
Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 4
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Psalm 77:12-14 ESV / 4
I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.
Psalm 73:1 ESV / 4
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalm 53:2-3 ESV / 4
God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
Psalm 19:1-13 ESV / 4
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ...
2 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 4
Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutblamed,
Ecclesiastes 7:16 ESV / 3
Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Job 1:20-22 ESV / 3
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 2
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
Job 31:33 ESV / 2
If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutvideo games,
Hebrews 5:10-14 ESV / 5
Being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Colossians 3:1-4:18 ESV / 5
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
Colossians 1:1-2:23 ESV / 5
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 5
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutgood race,
Where did the idea of different races come from? What does the Bible say?
I am a coconut. That phrase may anger you if you’re sensitive to issues of race. Or it may make you laugh because you can relate.
I am a Latino. Or is it Hispanic? Mexican–American? Technically, I’m Mexican–Indian–American with a little German mixed in there. My skin is dark brown, but I am much more accustomed to being in a predominantly Anglo community.
My first language is English. I was not allowed to speak Spanish as a child. My best friends were Anglos. My girlfriends were all Anglos. I dated a Latina in college and married her. When I failed in that marriage, I remarried an Anglo woman.
Like I said, I’m a coconut—brown on the outside, white on the inside.
Did you notice that I mixed race, ethnicity, and nationality when trying to describe myself? That’s because they are easily mixed. However, there are just a few races while there are several more ethnicities and many, many more nationalities.
Anthropology, sociology, genetics, political science, and many other disciplines use these categories to study their subjects. They strive to identify physical differences and the impact they have on everything from blood type to intelligence levels. Science has defined three types of race: Caucasian (white race), Negroid (black race), and Mongoloid (yellow race).1 Every human being belongs to one of these three races.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutearlier,
Acts 10:30 ESV / 3
And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
Acts 9:24 ESV / 3
But their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,
John 1:13 ESV / 3
Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:1 ESV / 3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutfell asleep,

Isaiah 53:4-6 ESV / 2
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 51:17 ESV / 2
Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering.
Psalm 115:17 ESV / 2
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.
1 Kings 19:4 ESV / 2
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Genesis 15:12 ESV / 2
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. w
hatdoestheBiblesayaboutslept,
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Psalm 23
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1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutlaunch,
When will the world end?
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
The end will come when mankind has been sufficiently warned by a global proclamation of God’s Kingdom​—a world government that will replace human rulership. (Daniel 7:13, 14) Jesus Christ said: “This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14) That preaching work, which reflects God’s justice and mercy, is part of a composite “sign” marking the time of the end. The sign also includes international warfare, earthquakes, famine, and disease.​—Matthew 24:3; Luke 21:10, 11.
Besides foretelling world events, the Bible also gives us a social profile of “the last days.” We read: “Critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, . . . disobedient to parents, . . . without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, . . . lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God.”

*​—2 Timothy 3:1-5.

The present wicked world will soon ‘pass away.’​—1 John 2:17
All those conditions mark the era that began about the time of World War I in 1914. Moreover, since that year, God’s Kingdom has been announced in every corner of the earth, and Jehovah’s Witnesses count it an honor to be closely identified with this work. In fact, their main journal is entitled The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah’s Kingdom.
whatdoestheBiblesayabout got up,Luke 5:24

But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.”
John 5:8

Jesus *said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.”
Acts 9:34

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed.” Immediately he got up.
Luke 22:46

and said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
Acts 9:6

but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”
Matthew 26:46

Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”

Mark 14:42

Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”
John 14:31

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.
Acts 10:13
A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”
Acts 11:7
I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’
whatdoestheBiblesayaboutpath
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 3
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 3
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 2
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.