Luke 1:5-7  In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant […]

Romans 15:1-2  We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.  Each of us should please our neighbours for their good, to build […]

Genesis 46:33-4  When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’ you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’  Then you […]

Job 10:8-9  “Your hands shaped me and made me.  Will you now turn and destroy me?  Remember that you moulded me like clay.  Will you now turn me to dust again?” One of the […]

MARK 7:5-8  So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled […]

Mark 13:12-13  “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child.  Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.  Everyone will hate you because of me, but […]

Genesis 40:1-5  Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer […]

Romans 9:30-32  What then shall we say?  That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the […]

Job 4:12-14  “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.  Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, fear and trembling seized […]

Genesis 35:9-12   After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.  God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; […]

Romans 3:1-2   What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?  Much in every way!  First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very […]

Esther 7:8-10   Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining.  The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest […]

Mark 1:4-5   And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  The whole Judean countryside and all the people of […]

John 3:16   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Christmas is […]

Haggai 1:1:5-6   Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.  You have planted much, but harvested little.  You eat, but never have enough.  You drink, but never have your […]

Revelation 2:4  Yet I hold this against you:  You have forsaken the love you had at first. The Church at Ephesus was the first one referred to in the ‘Letters to the […]