Genesis 37:20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” […]

Romans 6:5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. The crucifixion-and-resurrection of Jesus comes to […]

Job 1:4-5    [Job’s] sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.  When a period of feasting […]

Mark 4:2    [Jesus] taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: … One of the wonderful things about Jesus (apart from the fact that he was willing to […]

Genesis 32:9-12    [Jacob prayed,] “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I […]

Luke 21:1-6    As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.  He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.  “I […]

Habakkuk 1:12-13    O LORD, are you not from everlasting?  My God, my Holy One, we will not die.  O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgement; O Rock, you have […]

1 John 2:1-2    My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.  But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in […]

2 Chronicles 1:14-16    Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.  The […]

Luke 15:20-24    So he got up and went to his father.  But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; […]

Micah 5:2, 4-5a    But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose […]

2 Peter 1:16-18    We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty.  […]

1 Chronicles 22:11-13    “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the LORD your God, as he said you would. May the LORD give you […]

Luke 9:51-56    As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.  And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan […]

Jonah 3:4-5    On the first day, Jonah started into the city.  He proclaimed: “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned.”  The Ninevites believed God.  They declared a fast, and all […]

James 5:19-20    My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way […]