Shield

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

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.”

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. — read the full passage →

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, — read the full passage →

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. — read the full passage →

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever. — read the full passage →

They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon; — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?” — read the full passage →

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation. — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” — read the full passage →

I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields. — read the full passage →

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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 →

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” — 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 →

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. — read the full passage →

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. — read the full passage →

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south. — read the full passage →