Genesis 49:22-25   “Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.  With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.  […]

1 Corinthians 2:1-5   When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.  For I resolved […]

Job 13:17-18   Listen carefully to my words; let your ears take in what I say.  Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated. In spite […]

Mark 14:61-64   But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.  Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”  “I am,” said Jesus. […]

Genesis 43:26-28 When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.  He asked them how […]

Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Through the Apostle Paul, God gives us three simple commands in this verse!  When I say ‘simple’, I mean […]

Job 7:20-21 “If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men?  Why have you made me your target?  Have I become a burden to you?  Why […]

Mark 10:13-16 People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.  When Jesus saw this, he was indignant.  He said to them, “Let […]

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 […]