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ALL STAR BIBLE VERSION PERMISSIONS 6WB Scripture quotations marked (6WB) are from the 6 Word Bible Copyright © 2018 by Dave Davidson, Used by Permission.

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No doubt you’ve noticed the verses in this book are “selected”. Consider these various verse versions as members of an All-Star team with the teams as different bible translations. In this case the All-Star players are picked by a youth pastor for purpose of delivering bible verses in a fresh new effective way.

After much bible study thought and God fearing prayer these verses were selected to help you Surge Up with God’s Word. I pray that reading this ALL STAR mosaic of translations will be a catapult cayalyst in boosting your personal bible study.

So enjoy this batch of All-Star verses coupled with Verse Rehearse Verse Memes. I pray the verse variety and the images designed in the Verse Memes will best equip you for a Memory Assiciation Path (M.A.P.) in a lifelong journey of best remembering and implementing the truths found in God’s word.

Dave Davidson 2018

James 1 ALL STAR BIBLE version 1 From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to

all God's people scattered over the whole world. GNT 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of

many kinds,3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. NIV 7 Don't assume double-minded doubters receive anything from the Lord. SURGE 8 Double-minded men have unstable ways. 6WB

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: KJV 10 But let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field. CSB 11 For as the sun rises with its scorching heat the grass withers, flowers fall, and beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. SURGE

13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. ESV 15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death. CSB 16 Don't be deceived, my dear brothers. 6WB 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, shinning down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. POETTREE 18 God decided to give us life through the word of truth. Out of all creation we became his prized possession.

19 Everyone understand this: Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. SURGE 20 Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose. GNT 21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror. NIV 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. CSB 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law of freedom not as a nonchalant audience, but abiding as a effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. SURGE

26 If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. NLT 27 God's views of pure religion is caring for overlooked orphans and wary widows while keeping your soul spotless from the polluted world. SURGE

Verse Rehearse Verse Frames are inspired by Dueternonomy 6:9 “Write them on the doorframes of your home…” There are things in your home just waiting to become a M.A.P. Memory Associated Path for bible familiarization. James 1:23 is the match for mirror.

James 2 ALL STAR BIBLE version 1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus

Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. NAS 2 Suppose a rich man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes comes to your meeting, and a poor man in ragged clothes also comes. 3 If you show more respect to the well-dressed man and say to him, "Have this best seat here," but say to the poor man, "Stand over there, or sit here on the floor by my feet," GNT 4 Aren't you discriminating against people and using a corrupt standard to make judgments? GW 5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him? WEB 6 Yet you have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court? CSB 7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? NKJ 8 You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: "Love others as you love yourself." MSG 9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. NRS 10 Whoever keeps the entire law, yet stumbles at one point, becomes accountable for all of it. 11 The same who God said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." So if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you are a lawbreaker. SURGE 12 Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom. CSB 13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. ESV

14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can that faith save him? HNV 15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? CSB 17 So faith without works is dead. 6WB 18 But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." NAS

19 You believe there's one God. Good! Even demons believe that... and shudder. POETTREE 20 How foolish! Can’t you see that faith without good deeds is useless? NLT 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ESV 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works. RSV 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness," and he was called a friend of God. SURGE 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. ESV 25 Likewise, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works welcoming hospitality to spies and diverting them in a different direction? SURGE 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. NAS

James 3 ALL STAR BIBLE version 1 Not many should become

teachers, my brothers knowing the responsibility of receiving a stricter judgment. SURGE 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is mature, able also to control the whole body. CSB 3 Bridle bits in horse mouths

enable us to lead by navigating control. SURGE 4 And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. CSB 5 So too the tongue is a tiny part of the body, yet it boasts wildly. Consider how it only takes a spark to set a whole forest ablaze! SURGE 6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. NIV 7 People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. NLT 8 But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. HNV 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. NRS 10 Blessing and cursing from the same mouth... Say it ain't so. SURGE 11 Can fresh water and salt water flow out of the same spring? NIRV 12 Can a fig tree yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more than salt water can yield fresh water. SURGE

13 Are any of you wise and understanding? Show that your actions are good with a humble lifestyle that comes from wisdom. CEB 14 But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, don't boast and attack the truth with lies! CJB 15 Earthly demonic thinking ain't from heaven. 6WB 16 For Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil. CEBA 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. NAS 18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. NIV

The BFV (Best Fruit Verse) and most famous bible verse about fruit is certainly Galatians 5:22,23 (Verse Date for May 22nd & 23rd). So consider James 3:18 as a cousin BFF (Best Friends Forever) concept further expounding on dynamics of the fruit of the Spirit. Attaching a verse to a stronger memory association verse is a M.A.P. Memory Association Path.

James 4 ALL STAR BIBLE version 1 What causes quarrels and squabbles among you? Is it

not passions waging war within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet, but you cannot own. So you bicker and brawl. You do not have because you do not ask God. SURGE 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. NAS 4 You unfaithful people! Don't you know that love for this [evil] world is hatred toward God? Whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. GW 5 Don't assume Scripture is vain saying, "The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires." 6 God generously gives grace. As Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” SURGE 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. CEB 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. NIV

11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. ESV 12 There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? CSB

13 Some of you say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money." NCV 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. NIV 15 Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” CSB 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. NRS 17 So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it. SURGE

Second only the spritual cause and effect of Galatians 6:7 is this epic repentence verse in James 4:8. I have used this verse a few

times a year every year of my life when counseling a friend on foundational basics of Christianity. If your feel far from God guess

who moved. You did. That’s who. “Come near to God” and “wash”. Move it. Repentence is spiritual disenfectant. James 4:8

is a lifetime takeaway. Learn it. Live it. Verse Rehearse it.

The sister verse for James 4:17 is Genesis 4:7 (NIV) … But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;

it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. Learn it. Live it. Verse Rehearse it.

James 5 ALL STAR BIBLE version 1 Wake up rich people. Weep and wail over miseries coming upon

you. SURGE 2 Your riches rotted. Clothes moth munched. 6WB 3 Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days. LEB 4 All the workers you've exploited and cheated cry out for judgment. The groans of the workers you used and abused are a roar in the ears of the Master Avenger. MSG 5 You have lived in a land of luxury indulging yourselves, hearts high on the hog for a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed innocent people, who gave no resistance.

7 Be patient brothers until the Lord's return. See how farmers wait for their precious crops to grow. They wait patiently for fall and spring rains. SURGE 8 You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

9 Brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door! CSB 10 For examples of patience in suffering, dear brothers and sisters, look at the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. NLT 11 We consider those who endure to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance. You saw that the Lord ended Job's suffering because the Lord is compassionate and merciful. GW

12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “yes” mean “yes,” and your “no” mean “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment. CSB

13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. ESV 15 The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. NRS 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. SURGE 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ESV 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. WEB

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Here are Verse Rehearse Dates for the month of March…

March 6th for example is the Verse Rehearse Date that matches James 3:6. This match begs doing a selfie photo shoot every year sticking your tongue out. Better yet try to recite the verse on this day while sticking your tongue out. We’ve all have had to spit out food that was burning our mouth so associate James 3:6 with any tongue shenanegans.

Regardeless of multiple meme images or Verse Rehearse Verse Hacks like Verse Dates, the more cross references M.A.P.s, (Memory Association Paths) the better. Think of it like crosstraining.

When reading the “faith” chapter in Hebrews 11 one name usually sticks out as “one of these things is not like the other”. Rahab is that surprise name on election day ballots. Rahab is that shocking March Madness buzzer bracker beater. She is the green M&M® that makes even rock bands notice her. So use that anomaly for associating the memory of James 2:25 for recall.

It’s not every day that a prostitute gets a shoutout for doing the right thing, but everyday God offers his saving grace that solves our sin as the right way. The book the James does three such shoutouts… Job, Elijah, and Rahab. Be on the lookout for M.A.P.s

Surge Up with God's Word – Verse Rehearse Verse Dates are full color Daily Bible Verse memes identically matching date and

numerical verse address for easier familiarization. Enjoy verses for all 12 months from both the North American and International calendar dates. This is no ordinary common verse of the day

approach. The date and verse match every day!