Judean Hills

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — 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 saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ — 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 →

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

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

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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 →

He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. — read the full passage →

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

At the time of the offering of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. — read the full passage →

At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”

They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying, — read the full passage →

But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; — read the full passage →

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you; — read the full passage →

Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people. — read the full passage →

“‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:

For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. — read the full passage →

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 →

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” — read the full passage →

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