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Isaiah 43:18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” After I had been in prison long enough to be free of all [...]

Philippians 3:13-14 “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on [...]

2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus was made sin with our sinfulness, so that we could be made [...]

Romans 5:9 “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” I have heard the word “justified” explained as “just-as-if-I’d” never [...]

Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” In the poor spiritual and emotional state I lived for so long prior to being born [...]

James 4:7-8 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you…” While I was in prison, people often told me to [...]

2 Corinthians 10:5 “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” In prison, there [...]

Colossians 3:2-3 “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” Wrong “mindsets” are available in abundance in prison. To [...]

Philippians 4:8-9 “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or [...]

Ephesians 4:22-23 “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your [...]