Everyday words
Strive
Start with Genesis 6:3, where the Bible uses the word strive in a real sentence: “Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 6:3
“Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.””
2. Deuteronomy 25:11
“When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,”
3. Judges 11:25
“Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?”
4. 1 Samuel 2:10
“Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.””
5. Job 33:13
“Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?”
6. Proverbs 3:30
“Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.”
7. Isaiah 41:11
“Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.”
8. Jeremiah 22:15
““Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 6:3
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
said,“MySpiritnotstrivewithmanbecausehealsoisflesh;sohisdayswillbeonehundredtwentyyears.”