Early Rising

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

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.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. — read the full passage →

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

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

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

Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. — read the full passage →

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

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

When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. — 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.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →

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

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.