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Living in the World

My Verse Collection · all 88 questions · Chapter 7 (Q78–88)

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Q78What kind of friend should I be?

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A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 17:17 · WEB
See also (another 5 verses)
  • A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 18:24
  • The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.Proverbs 27:6
  • Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.Proverbs 27:9-10
  • Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.Proverbs 27:17
  • Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.John 15:13-14

Q79How should I treat my neighbor?

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He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Luke 10:27 · WEB
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  • Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you. Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.Proverbs 3:27-29
  • He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.Proverbs 14:21
  • Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.Proverbs 24:28
  • Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.Romans 15:2
  • Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.Ephesians 4:25

Q80Why do we work?

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The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Genesis 2:15 · WEB
See also (another 5 verses)
  • God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Genesis 1:28
  • On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.Genesis 2:2
  • To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”Genesis 3:17-19
  • For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.” For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
  • For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.Ephesians 2:10

Q81How should I go about my work?

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Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Colossians 3:22-25 · WEB
See also (another 3 verses)
  • Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.1 Corinthians 10:31
  • He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’ “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”Matthew 25:20-21
  • Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.Proverbs 22:29

Q82What should I watch for at work?

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Do all things without complaining and arguing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Philippians 2:14-15 · WEB
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  • It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.Matthew 20:26-28

Q83Have I made an idol of my work?

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Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

Colossians 3:2-4 · WEB
See also (another 2 verses)
  • “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.”Matthew 6:24
  • Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.Isaiah 41:29

Q84How should I think about money?

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Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 · WEB
See also (another 5 verses)
  • “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”Matthew 6:19-21
  • Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.Proverbs 23:4-5
  • Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.Matthew 19:24
  • Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.Luke 12:33
  • Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.Ecclesiastes 5:18-19

Q85If God has blessed me, why is my life still hard?

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I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.

John 16:33 · WEB
See also (another 5 verses)
  • For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job 5:6-7
  • Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?1 Peter 3:13
  • In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.Ecclesiastes 7:14
  • That no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
  • The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.Nahum 1:7

Q86I am in trouble right now. What do I do?

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Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:3-6 · WEB
See also (another 6 verses)
  • God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Psalm 46:1
  • Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.Psalm 50:15
  • Rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,Romans 12:12
  • Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.2 Corinthians 1:3-7
  • But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.” But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear, having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ. For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing what is right than for doing evil.1 Peter 3:14-17
  • But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.Hebrews 10:32-36

Q87How should I face death?

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He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.

Revelation 21:4 · WEB
See also (another 5 verses)
  • It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.Ecclesiastes 7:2
  • God is to us a God of deliverance. To the LORD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.Psalm 68:20
  • For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.Philippians 1:21
  • But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 15:54-57
  • The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.Revelation 20:13-14

Q88What does Scripture say about this life and the next?

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These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Matthew 25:46 · WEB
See also (another 6 verses)
  • Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.Matthew 10:28
  • But he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.Mark 10:30
  • In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.John 14:2
  • If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.1 Corinthians 15:19
  • For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.1 Timothy 4:8
  • But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.Revelation 21:8
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