Mothers guard your children...

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is
 old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 ESV

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"Arise, cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street."
 Lamentations 2:19 ESV

"And these words that I command you today shall be on
your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and
 speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk
 by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be
as frontlets between your eyes." Deuteronomy 6: 6-8

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God Goes With You

 

Description of Clip Art: dark scary house, text "Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you." Deuteronomy 31:6 (ESV)

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Real strength is in the Lord...

"The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms." Deuteronomy 33:27

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"Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your
strength." Nehemiah 8:10

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Scriptures About Lepers

"Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate;
and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die?" 2 Kings 7:3

Description of Illustration: lepers, leprous, skin disease, unclean, drawing of lepers in stained glass design, skin affliction, lepers in Bible times, transparent background

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Initially, infections are without symptoms and typically remain this way for 5 to 20 years. Symptoms that develop include granulomas of the nerves, respiratory tract, skin, and eyes. This may result in a lack of ability to feel pain, thus loss of parts of extremities due to repeated injuries or infection due to unnoticed wounds. Weakness and poor eyesight may also be present. Read more...

"In all cases involving serious skin diseases, be careful to follow the instructions
 of the Levitical priests; obey all the commands I have given them. Remember
what the LORD your God did to Miraim as you were coming from Egypt."
Deuteronomy 23: 8-9

"The LORD furthermore said to him, "Now put your hand into your bosom."
So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his
hand was leprous like snow. The He said, "Put your hand into your bosom
again." So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of
 his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh." Exodus 4: 6-7

"The man is afflicted with a serious skin disease; he is unclean.
The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head."
Leviticus 13:44

"As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers.
They stood at a distance..." Luke 17:12

"A man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to Jesus, knelt down,
and begged him for help. "if you want to," he said, "you can make me clean."
Jesus was filled with pity, and reached out and touched him. "I do want to,"
he answered. "Be Clean! Mark 1: 40-41

And Yeshua said to him, "Take heed that you speak to no one, but
go shew yourself to the priest and bring a gift as Moses
commanded for their testimony." Matthew 8:4

"Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest
shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among
thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly
to swell;" Numbers 5:21

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About lepers in modern culture.

Scriptures about false witness or testimony...

"If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you." 1 Peter 4:14 and "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me." Matthew 5:11

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"And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." Deuteronomy 5:20 and "So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:5

"How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood." Job 21:34 and "...then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment," 2 Peter 2:9

"With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered." Proverbs 11:9 and "...until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." Ephesians 4:13

"For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit." Psalm 35:20 and "Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him." Jeremiah 9:8

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Scriptures for those without a home...

"If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD you God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be." Deuteronomy 15:7-8

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"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49 and "And he answered them, "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise." Luke 3:11

"He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor, his righteousness endures forever, his horn is exalted in honor." Psalm 112:9 and "But if anyone has the world' goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and truth." 1 John 3:17-18

"Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." Philippians 2:4 and "And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." Matthew 25:40

"If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday." Isaiah 58:10 and "In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." Matthew 5:16

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Cherubim Know He Is Holy...

"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is Our God,
the LORD is One!" Deuteronomy 6:4

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"Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them,
"You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy." Leviticus 19:2

"Exalt the LORD our God and worship
at his footstool, holy is he." Psalm 99:5

"Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for he is
aroused from his holy habitation." Zechariah 2:13

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Christ's Temptation...

"But Jesus answered, 'The scripture says, 'Man cannot live on bread alone.'"
 Luke 4:4 and Cross Reference "He made you go hungry, and then he
gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before.
 He did this to teach you that man must not depend on bread alone to sustain him,
but on everything that the LORD says." Deuteronomy 8:3

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"Jesus answered, 'The scripture says, 'Worship the Lord your God
 and serve only him!'" Luke 4:8 and Cross Reference "Have reverence
for the LORD your God, worship only him, and make your
promises in his name alone." Deuteronomy 6:13

"But Jesus answered, 'The scripture says, 'Do not put the Lord
your God to the test.'" Luke 4:12 and Cross Reference
"Do not put the LORD your God to the test,
as you did at Massah." Deuteronomy 6:16

Young scalawags and scripture

"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by
 it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted
that the Lord is good." 1 Peter 2:2-3

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"Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you
 sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you
 lie down and when you get up." Deuteronomy 6:7

"See that you do not despise one of these little ones.
For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the
 face of my Father in heaven." Matthew 18:10

"Start children off on the way they should go, and even
 when they are old they will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6

"Through the praise of children and infants you have
 established a stronghold against your enemies,
 to silence the foe and the avenger." Psalm 8:2

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Fruits for Celebrating Tu BiShvat

"When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it you must not destroy its trees by putting ax to them, because you can get food from them. You must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you? Deuteronomy 20:19

Description of Illustration: illustrations of olive, grapes and figs for Jewish holidays, full color, some have transparent backgrounds, text "Deuteronomy 20:19

In the Middle Ages, Tu BiShvat was celebrated with a feast of fruits in keeping with the Mishnaic description of the holiday as a "New Year." In the 16th century, the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of Safed and his disciples instituted a Tu BiShvat seder in which the fruits and trees of the Land of Israel were given symbolic meaning. The main idea was that eating ten specific fruits and drinking four cups of wine in a specific order while reciting the appropriate blessings would bring human beings, and the world, closer to spiritual perfection.

Plate of ripe, red grapes

Collection of figs

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Give Generously

"Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart;
 then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all
 your work and in everything you put your hand to."
Deuteronomy 15:10

Description of Illustration: hand, dollar bills, scriptures about giving, drawing

"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into
 your lap a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and
 running over. For by your standard of measure it will be
 measured to you in return." Luke 6:38

"He who gives to the poor will never want,
but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses."
 Proverbs 28:27

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The Words Which

"Which Things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." 1 Corinthians 2:13

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"These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red Sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban and Hazeroth, and Dizahob. Deuteronomy 1:1

"And He said unto them, these are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the laws of Moses and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me." Luke 24:44 (KJB)

Deuteronomy 6:5

Description of Illustration: contemporary red heart and scripture "you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and heart and with your entire being and will all your might." Deuteronomy 6:5

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Vintage Mite Boxes Shaped Like Churches

"Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD
 you God which he has given you." Deuteronomy 16:17 (ESV)

Description of Illustration: church shaped mite boxes from the previous century, orange or red bricks printed on the sides, steeple, slot for coins over the door, tiny church windows

       The term mite box (also alms box or poor box) refers to a box that is used to save coins for charitable purposes. Contemporary mite boxes are usually made of cardboard and given out to church congregations during the Lente season. The mite boxes are collected by the church and donations are given to the poor. Mite boxes are popular with children because they can fill them with small change and it teaches them the principle of giving to the poor. The Mite box giving promotes the spirit of contributing based on the intent to help others and not on the monetary amount.

       The origin of the mite box is very old. In 2 Kings 12:9, the priest Jehoiada bored a hole in the lid of a chest and placed it near the first altar, however this was to fund maintenance rather than alms.
Pope Innocent III at the end of twelfth century allowed some mite boxes to be placed in temples so that the faithful people may at any time dispose their alms.

The term mite, according to the dictionary, is defined as any of the following:

1. a very small contribution or amount of money, such as a widow's mite.
2. a very small object, creature, or particle.
3. a coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.

       An alms box is a strong chest or box often fastened to the wall of a church to receive offerings for the poor.
       The etymology of the word mite comes through Middle English and Middle Dutch from the Middle Low German mīte, a small Flemish coin or tiny animal. In biblical times a mite or lepton was a small coin of almost no worth.

"He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives and spares not."
 Proverbs 21:26 (King James 2000)

"He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have
 many a curse." Proverbs 28:27 (King James 2000)

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Deuteronomy 24:21

 

Description of the Illustration: black and white, An old man sitting in a bend wood rocker, looking up from his paper, to listen to his elderly wife. She holds a small pea between her fingers and quotes a scripture from the Bible. old-fashioned kitchen, turkey on the table, window, shot gun, old buckets, apron, scripture "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow." Deuteronomy 24:21

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