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CRAZYMAKERS. Keeping the Crazymakers From making You crazy part 6. 1. Refuse to Be Offended. Proverbs 19:11. “ A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense .”. Proverbs 12:16.
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CRAZYMAKERS Keeping the Crazymakers From making You crazy part 6
Proverbs 19:11 • “A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlookan offense.”
Proverbs 12:16 • “Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.”
Proverbs 10:12 • “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.”
Luke 23:34 • “Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Matthew 6:14-15 • “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Colossians 3:13 • “bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.”
Proverbs 17:9 • “Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.”
1 Peter 3:9 • “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.”
Matthew 22:15, 18 • Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk… But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?”
2 Corinthians 4:2 • “Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.”
Proverbs 26:21 • “As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.”
2 Corinthians 11:20-21 • “For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. To our shame I say that we were too weak for that!”
Galatians 5:1 • “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
Matthew 15:12-14 • “Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind.”
Romans 12:14, 17-18 • “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse… • “Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”
Romans 12:21 • “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
What Would Happen If We … • Refuse to be offended • Refuse to wait for an apology • Refuse to gossip • Refuse to play their game • Refuse to cave in • INSIST to always take the high ground
“When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” • Proverbs 16:7
