NIV, Promises for Graduates

By Zondervan

For every graduate, God offers direction, peace, and wisdom for the road ahead. In this collection of inspirational verses taken from the clear, accessible New International Version of the Bible, over 1,500 Scriptures are arranged into 130 topics such as guidance, prayer, and wisdom, reminding graduates about God’s promises. Promises for Graduates: from the New International Version ebook is perfect for a loved one who is nearing graduation and approaching a new season in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: May 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9780310442332

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Promises for Graduates

From the New International Version

Dedication

You are righteous, LORD,

and your laws are right.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested,

and your servant loves them.

Psalm 119:137, 140

ZONDERVAN

Promises for Graduates from the New International Version

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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Compiler: Snapdragon Editorial Group, Inc

Associate Editor: Tom Dean

Project Manager: Val Buick

Design: Kimberly Visser

Letter to the Graduate

Dear Graduate:

The day you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. You’ve completed the assignments, listened carefully to your teachers, and studied for and passed the exams. Now it’s time to step out of the classroom and into the world.

As you go, be sure to take the Word of God with you. His precious promises are all intended to encourage, enlighten, and enrich your life and keep you on the path to a fulfilling future.

Take this little book with you, too. In it, we have brought together many wonderful promises on the topics you are sure to encounter in the years ahead. Read it and refer to it often. It will give you the edge you need as you begin your next adventure—pursuing your dreams.

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Contents

Dedication

Letter to the Graduate

Acceptance

Accomplishment

Advice & Counsel

Ambition

Answered Prayer

Appearance

Assurance

Attitude

Belief

Bible Study

Blessings

Celebration

Challenge

Change

Character

Church

Comfort

Commitment

Communication

Compassion

Confidence

Conflict

Contentment

Daily Walk

Decisions

Determination

Discipleship

Discipline

Doubt

Encouragement

Eternal Life

Evangelism

Expectations

Faith

Faithfulness

Fear

Fellowship

Finances

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Future

Gentleness

Giving

God’S Faithfulness

God’S Goodness

God’S Love

God’S Mercy

God’S Presence

God’S Will

God’S Word

God’S Deeds

Grace

Grief

Growth

Guidance

Health & Healing

Heaven

Help

Holiness

Holy Spirit

Honesty

Hope

Humility

Identity

Integrity

Jesus Christ

Joy

Justice

Kindness

Kingdom of God

Knowledge

Life

Loneliness

Loving God

Loving Others

Meditation

Ministry

Nature

New Birth

Obedience

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Possessions

Power

Praise & Worship

Prayer

Priorities

Protection

Provision

Purity

Purpose

Quietness & Solitude

Reconciliation

Redemption

Rejection

Repentance

Rest

Restoration

Reward

Righteousness

Sacrifice

Salvation

Satisfaction

Scripture

Security

Seeking God

Self-control

Self-esteem

Service

Sincerity

Speech

Stability

Strength

Stress

Stewardship

Success

Talents & Gifts

Temptation

Thankfulness

Thoughts

Trials

Trouble

Trust

Truth

Understanding

Unity

Unselfishness

Values

Victory

Wealth

Wisdom

Work

Promises For Your Journey

ACCEPTANCE

Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.

Matthew 10:40-42

All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

John 6:37

Yet I am always with you;

you hold me by my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel,

and afterward you will take me into glory.

Whom have I in heaven but you?

And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

Psalm 73:23-25

But now, this is what the LORD says—

he who created you, Jacob,

he who formed you, Israel:

"Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Isaiah 43:1

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—

Ephesians 1:3-5

ACCOMPLISHMENT

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 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 toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

Philippians 3:12-14, 16

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Philippians 3:7-9

LORD, you establish peace for us;

all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

Isaiah 26:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12

ADVICE & COUNSEL

Where there is strife, there is pride,

but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

Proverbs 13:10

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

Psalm 32:8

Listen to advice and accept discipline,

and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

Proverbs 19:20

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 14:26

The way of fools seems right to them,

but the wise listen to advice.

Proverbs 12:15

This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Jeremiah 6:16

"To God belong wisdom and power;

counsel and understanding are his.

Job 12:13

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

Jeremiah 33:3

I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

Psalm 16:7

AMBITION

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Plans are established by seeking advice;

so if you wage war, obtain guidance.

Proverbs 20:18

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.

James 3:16-17

In their hearts humans plan their course,

but the LORD establishes their steps.

Proverbs 16:9

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:10-11

ANSWERED PRAYER

Away from me, all you who do evil,

for the LORD has heard my weeping.

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

Psalm 6:8-9

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

John 16:23-24

Before they call I will answer;

while they are still speaking I will hear.

Isaiah 65:24

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:7-8

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

1 John 5:14-15

He said: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

Jonah 2:2

The LORD is near to all who call on him,

to all who call on him in truth.

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;

he hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 145:18-19

He will respond to the prayer of the destitute;

he will not despise their plea.

Let this be written for a future generation,

that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:

Psalm 102:17-18

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

Jeremiah 33:3

and call on me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

Psalm 50:15

The LORD is far from the wicked,

but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:29

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.

James 5:14-15

APPEARANCE

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and