“Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your...
This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666. Revelation 13:18 There has been a lot of speculation about the number of the beast. Whatever the mark of the...
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it...
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws. Psalm 119:105-106 God’s Word (The Bible) is a guide for living. The key though is to take an oath and do it...
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the...
I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. John 12:46 Jesus is the light of the world. I cannot imagine what the world would be like without Him, other that utter darkness. I am so grateful...
And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” John 9:2 Kids ask “why?” a lot. Why this, why that. The disciples asked Jesus why a man was born blind. They assumed it was the sin...
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 People get uptight about the idea of being born again. People even joke about “those born-again” Christians...
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness...
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices...
See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire...
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the...
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but...
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19...
If then you regard me a partner, accept him as you would me. But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account; Philemon 1:17-18 Paul appealed to Philemon and asked him to receive his former slave Onesimus back...
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13 God accomplished something amazing, he rescued people from a domain and destiny...
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 In his letter to the church in Ephesus, Paul praised their participation in the gospel and encouraged them...
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 The idea of blessing seems big to God. He is blessed and He has blessed us with every spiritual...
Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. Romans 10:1 Paul wanted the Jewish believers especially to believe in Jesus. So much so, that at one point he said, I would be cursed, so that they would be saved...
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2...