1 Corinthians 6:19-20   Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own; you […]

Job 15:9-10   What do you know that we do not know?  What insights do you have that we do not have?  The grey-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older […]

Luke 1:45   [Elizabeth … filled with the Holy Spirit …  exclaimed:] “… … Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfil his promises to her!” As soon as Mary […]

Genesis 47:5   Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you, and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the […]

Romans 16:25-26   Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery […]

Job 11:5-6   Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two […]

Mark 12:12   Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them.  But […]

Genesis 41:42-43  Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger.  He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his […]

Romans 10:18-21  But I ask: Did [Israel] not hear?  Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”  Again I ask: […]

Job 5:17-18  “Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.  For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also […]

Genesis 38:27-29  When the time came for [Tamar] to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.  As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the […]

Romans 4:5   However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. This statement of Paul is central to his […]

Esther 8:1-2   That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews.  And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told […]

Genesis 30:31-33   “What shall I give you?” [Laban] asked.  “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied.  “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending […]

Esther 1:1   This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: Thus begins the only book in the […]

Genesis 23:1-4   Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for […]