Creative

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

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:

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.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. — read the full passage →

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy, — read the full passage →

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord; — read the full passage →

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did. — read the full passage →

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. — read the full passage →

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!” — read the full passage →

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. — read the full passage →

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. — read the full passage →

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. — read the full passage →

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. — read the full passage →

He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. — read the full passage →

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, — read the full passage →

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; — read the full passage →

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

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. — read the full passage →

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. — read the full passage →

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; — read the full passage →

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. — read the full passage →

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” — read the full passage →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. — read the full passage →

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” — read the full passage →

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, — read the full passage →

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — read the full passage →

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. — read the full passage →

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; — read the full passage →

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.” — read the full passage →

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

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 →

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; — read the full passage →

Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. — 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. — read the full passage →

Then Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. — read the full passage →

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old. — read the full passage →

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! — read the full passage →

Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, — read the full passage →

They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house, — read the full passage →

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.” — read the full passage →

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!” — read the full passage →

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants; — read the full passage →

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. — read the full passage →

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. — read the full passage →

It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build, — read the full passage →

“You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it. — read the full passage →

You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. — read the full passage →

“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made. — read the full passage →

You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

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.” — read the full passage →

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep 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.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

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

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.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.