Verses that hit home yesterday

Titus 1:16 

They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.
They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

James 1:2-4 

Trials and Temptations

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 3:13 

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

James 3:16 

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:17 

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

1 Peter 2:19-20 

For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

1 Peter 5:10 

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.