Doorkeepers

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! — 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.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. — read the full passage →

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. — read the full passage →

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. — read the full passage →

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

But when you see the abomination of desolation,spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? — read the full passage →

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. — read the full passage →

There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. — read the full passage →

The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →