Romans 4:7-11 “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.  Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”  Is this blessedness only for […]

Esther 8:17 In every province and in every city, wherever the edict of the king went, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating.  And many people […]

Genesis 31:22-24 On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.  Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the […]

Matthew 27:54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son […]

Genesis 27:36-37 Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob?  He has deceived me these two times:  He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!”  Then he asked, “Haven’t you […]

Acts 24:2-6 When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented his case before Felix: “We have enjoyed a long period of peace under you, and your foresight has brought about reforms in […]

Nehemiah 13:6-7 But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king.  Some […]

Jude 1:4   For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you.  They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into […]

2 Chronicles 8:16   All Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid until its completion. So the temple of the LORD was […]

Luke 21:12-15   “But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you.  They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings […]

Habakkuk 1:3-4 Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrong?  Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.  Therefore the law is […]

1 John 4:16-18 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love.  Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.  In […]

2 Chronicles 1:4-6 Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it […]

Luke 15:28-30 The older brother became angry and refused to go in.  So his father went out and pleaded with him.  But he answered his father, “Look! All these years I’ve […]

1 Chronicles 28:1-2a David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the […]

Micah 4:2, 10 Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD , to the house of the God of Jacob.  He will teach […]