(12) Your truth.

Where you grew up, your truth will be the last to be realised.

References:

  • He departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, «Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?» And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, «A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.» So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. (Mark 6:1-5)

  • For even your own brothers, the members of your father’s house, betray you; they have recruited a force against you. Do not believe them, even if they are friendly to you in their words. (Jer 12:6)

  • He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. (John 1:11)

  • Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them. (Mark 6:11)

  • You are righteous, O Lord, and all your deeds are just; All your ways are mercy and truth; you are the judge of the world. (Tob 3:2)

  • Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good;His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations. (Ps 100:4-5)

  • The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are sure. They are upheld forever and ever; they are performed in truth and uprightness. (Ps 111:7-8)

  • because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17)

  • They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth. (John 17:16-19)

  • This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and blood. The Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth. (1 Jphn 5:6)

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Contents of the book "Be Kind!"