Building A Tower

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

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.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; — read the full passage →

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

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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 →

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” — read the full passage →

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead. — read the full passage →

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! — read the full passage →

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. — read the full passage →

Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.

It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

They said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

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.”

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.