REDEEM THE TIMES 1-17-2021 BY MARY DORIAN
Eph 5:15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),
16 Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil. AMP
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Eph 5:15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. NKJV
Col 4:5 Behave yourselves wisely [living prudently and with discretion] in your relations with those of the outside world (the non-Christians), making the very most of the time and seizing (buying up) the opportunity. AMP
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Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. NKJV
James 4:14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air]. AMP
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James 4:14 But you dont have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes! TPT
James 4:17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin. AMP
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James 4:17 So if you know of an opportunity to do the right thing today, yet you refrain from doing it, youre guilty of sin. TPT
Gal 3:13 Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); AMP
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Gal 3:13 Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he became a curse in our place. For it is written: TPT
Gal 4:5 To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons].
6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! AMP
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Gal 4:5-6 Yet all of this was so that he would redeem and set free all those held hostage to the written law so that we would receive our freedom and a full legal adoption as his children.
6 And so that we would know for sure that we are his true children, God released the Spirit of Sonship into our heartsmoving us to cry out intimately, My Father![a] Youre our true Father! TPT
Ps 72:7 In His [Christ's] days shall the [uncompromisingly] righteous flourish and peace abound till there is a moon no longer. AMP
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Ps 72:7 In the days of his reign the righteous will spring forth with the abundance of peace and prosperity forevermore. TPT
John 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. AMP
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John 19:30 When he had sipped the sour wine, he said, It is finished, my bride![a] Then he bowed his head and surrendered his spirit to God. TPT
Ps 22:31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born that He has done it [that it is finished]! AMP
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Ps 22:31 His generation yet to be born will glorify him. And they will all declare, It is finished! TPT
Matthew 16:3 And, Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Youre so adept at forecasting the weather by looking at the sky, but youre absolutely clueless in reading the obvious signs of the times. TPT
1 Chron 12:32 And of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs; and all their kinsmen were under their command; AMP
Job 33:29 "This is the way God works. Over and over again
30 He pulls our souls back from certain destruction so we'll see the light and live in the light! MSG