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September 24, 2005

Our Favorite GBD Verses

by TulipMama

A member of the GCM message board recently asked other mamas to share some of their favorite grace-based discipline passages from the Bible. Here are a few of them. Feel free to add yours, too!

From elcollins

Isaiah 66:11
"For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breast you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance. For this is what the Lord says: "I will extend peace to her like a river and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you."

From Carol

"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 NIV

From Titus2:5Catholic

Matthew Ch. 18:
"1 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? 2 And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, 3 And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. 6 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea...10 See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven."

From Carol

"What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip (KJV says rod), or in love and with a gentle spirit?" 1 Corinthians 4:21 NIV

From Titus2:5Catholic

Ephesians 6:4
"And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord...6 Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men, but, as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart"

From TulipMama

Galatians 6:1-2
"Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."

From Titus2:5Catholic

Romans 15:1
"Now we that are stronger, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."

From Titus2:5Catholic

Psalm 23:4
"For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me."

From katiekind

The Book of Ephesians. (I was going to quote a verse, and then my eye lit upon a nearby wonderful verse, and then another, and then another....and they are all laced together, Paul-fashion: you can't just pull out one because it's attached to a "therefore".

From Mia

"Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you."

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments."

and I Corinthians 13

From Carol

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40 KJV

Posted by TulipMama at September 24, 2005 08:20 AM

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