Historical Periods

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. — read the full passage →

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. — read the full passage →

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. — 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.”

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

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;

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. — read the full passage →

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

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

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. — read the full passage →

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd. — read the full passage →

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. — 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,

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): — read the full passage →

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

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 →

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 →

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

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.”

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

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim/f + cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10./f* at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

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.

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.”

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.

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

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