Being Special

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him? — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— — read the full passage →

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, — read the full passage →

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. — read the full passage →

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.” — read the full passage →

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. — read the full passage →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

He said, “For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name. — read the full passage →

You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

“You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.