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Psalm 135:13-14

"Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your fame, O LORD, throughout all generations... [You] will have compassion on [Your] servants."

Proverbs 29:9

"If a wise man contends with a foolish man, Whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no peace."

I Peter 4:2

"... that [I] no longer should live the rest of [my] time in the flesh for the lusts of men [Amplified: human appetites and desires], but for the will of God."

I Peter 4:8

"... above all things have fervent love for one another, for 'love will cover a multitude of sins.'"
Amplified: "intense and unfailing love... forgives and disregards the offenses...."

John MacArthur, Daily Study Bible on I Peter 4:7

"watchful pursuit of holiness": "A mind fixed on His return is purified and enjoys the fullness of fellowship with the LORD" (1205).

Teach me to humble (Amplified: "demote, lower [myself] in [my] own estimation") myself under Your mighty hand and to cast all my care upon You. (Amplified, v. 7: "Casting the whole of [my] care [all my anxieties, worries, concerns, once and for all" .... You care for me affectionately and watchfully.

I Peter 5:10

Perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle me, O LORD.

MacArthur on I Peter 5:6

"One of the evidences of lack of submission and humility is impatience with God in His work of humbling believers" (1208).

II Peter 1:5-8

Virtue (Amplified: excellence, resolution, energy), knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, love--if these things are mine in abundance, I "will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the [Amplified: personal] knowledge of [the] LORD Jesus Christ."

MacArthur on Daniel 3:19-25

"The truth usually includes unexpected complications."

Nebuchadnezzar did not extend to the "fourth man" the invitation to exit the furnace" (1213).

Psalm 18:32

"It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect."

Jeremiah 33:3

"'Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.'"