Isaiah 13:9-11   See, the day of the LORD is coming – a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger – to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.  The […]

Numbers 10:9-10   When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets.  Then you will be remembered by the […]

Hebrews 7:15-16   And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as […]

Song of Songs 6:8-9   Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the […]

Psalm 42:10   My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long,  “Where is your God?” One Sunday morning I was talking to a young […]

Numbers 6:22-27   The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: “‘“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make […]

2 Thessalonians 3:6-7 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live […]

Proverbs 28:4-5 Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.  Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully. […]

Psalm 16:1, 8 Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. … … I keep my eyes always on the LORD.  With him at my right hand, I […]

Leviticus 11:43-45  Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures.  Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.  I am the LORD your God; consecrate […]

1 Thessalonians 2:1-2  You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results.  We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but […]

Proverbs 22:2, 9  Rich and poor have this in common:  The LORD is the Maker of them all. … … The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with […]

Psalm 5:1-2  Listen to my words, LORD, consider my lament.  Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In this Psalm, and those around […]

Leviticus 5:5-6  … when anyone becomes aware that they are guilty in any of these matters, they must confess in what way they have sinned.  As a penalty for the sin they […]

Philippians 2:14-16a  Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”  Then you will shine among […]

Proverbs 14:1-2, 34  The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.  Whoever fears the LORD walks uprightly, but those who despise him are […]