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.
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.
ruin and misery mark their ways,
But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.
Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?
The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord ’s.
So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the Lord .
To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.
The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.
He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord , “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord .’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord , the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.