1 Corinthians 10:18-22  Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?  Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or […]

Job 20:1-3  Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.  I hear a rebuke that dishonours me, and my understanding inspires me to […]

Luke 5:39  And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, “The old is better.” All three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) record Jesus’ little ‘parables’ […]

Exodus 1:12-13  But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly.    The 430 years the descendants […]

1 Corinthians 4:11-13  To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.  We work hard with our own hands.  When we are […]

Luke 2:10-14 But the angel said to [the shepherds], “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.  Today in the town of […]

Job 12:1-2  Then Job replied: “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!  But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior […]

Genesis 45:7-8  But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.  “So then, it was not […]

Romans 14:19  Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. The people in the fellowship of believers in Rome who were receiving this […]

Esther 9:3-4 And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them. Mordecai was prominent in […]

Mark 12:13-14a  Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words.  They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a […]

Romans 8:33-36  Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?  It is God who justifies.  Who then is the one who condemns?  No one. Christ Jesus who died – more than […]

Genesis 39:5  From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing […]

Esther 3:4  Day after day [the royal officials] spoke to [Mordecai] but he refused to comply [with the king’s order to kneel down and pay honour to Haman].  Therefore they told Haman […]

Mark 6:19-20  So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him.  But she was not able to, because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a […]

Genesis 34:29-31  They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.  Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble […]