Family and Faith Magazine August-September 2015 | Page 11
PARENTING
Aiming for Excellence in Your School Work
• Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will
be established. Proverbs 16:3
• Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and become a slave.
Proverbs 12:24
• Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work
hard will prosper. Proverbs 13:4
• All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only
to poverty. Proverbs 14:23
• I can do all things through Him (Christ) who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13
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Lazy people want much but get little,
but those who work hard will prosper.
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(Proverbs 13:4)
• Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends
all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds
in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7
Bullying and Peer Pressure
• No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to
man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted
beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also
provide the way of escape, that you may be able to
endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13
• My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.
If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent
blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul; let’s swallow them
alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to
the pit; we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our
houses with plunder; cast lots with us; we will all share the
loot”— my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on
their paths. Proverbs 1:10-15
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• And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the
will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2
• Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the
wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat
of scoffers. Psalm 1:1
And do not be conformed
to this world,but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind,...
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(Romans 12:2)
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