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For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, — read the full passage →

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: — read the full passage →

In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. — read the full passage →

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the Lord turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly. — read the full passage →

And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; — read the full passage →

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. — read the full passage →

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. — read the full passage →

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: — read the full passage →

But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. — read the full passage →

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; — read the full passage →

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. — read the full passage →

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: — read the full passage →

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. — read the full passage →

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. — read the full passage →

Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. — read the full passage →

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. — read the full passage →

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; — read the full passage →

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. — read the full passage →

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. — read the full passage →

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. — read the full passage →

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. — read the full passage →

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: — read the full passage →

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. — read the full passage →

He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. — read the full passage →

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. — read the full passage →

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. — read the full passage →

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. — read the full passage →

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; — read the full passage →

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. — read the full passage →

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. — read the full passage →

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. — read the full passage →

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. — read the full passage →

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: — read the full passage →

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. — read the full passage →

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. — read the full passage →

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. — read the full passage →

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. — read the full passage →

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. — read the full passage →

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. — read the full passage →

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. — read the full passage →

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. — read the full passage →

And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — read the full passage →

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. — read the full passage →

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. — read the full passage →

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; — read the full passage →

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. — read the full passage →

Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. — read the full passage →

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. — read the full passage →

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. — read the full passage →

In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. — read the full passage →

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. — read the full passage →

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. — read the full passage →

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. — read the full passage →

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: — read the full passage →

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. — read the full passage →

Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. — read the full passage →

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. — read the full passage →

Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. — read the full passage →

And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings. — read the full passage →

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. — read the full passage →

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. — read the full passage →

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. — read the full passage →

The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. — read the full passage →

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; — read the full passage →

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! — read the full passage →