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For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. — read the full passage →

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

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

When he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers’ houses increased greatly. — read the full passage →

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice; — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

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

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard, — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. — read the full passage →

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” — read the full passage →

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” — read the full passage →

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; — read the full passage →

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. — read the full passage →

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head. — read the full passage →

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility. — read the full passage →

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward. — read the full passage →

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding. — read the full passage →

“For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up: — read the full passage →

As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by. — read the full passage →

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. — read the full passage →

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

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh. — read the full passage →

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

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. — read the full passage →

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked. — read the full passage →

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; — read the full passage →

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

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. — read the full passage →

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. — read the full passage →

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. — read the full passage →

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. — read the full passage →

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. — read the full passage →

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

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

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

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

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

It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” — read the full passage →

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.” — read the full passage →

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

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ — read the full passage →

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.” — read the full passage →

“You shall have no other gods before me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.” — read the full passage →

and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me”; and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.’”

Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.” — read the full passage →

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. — read the full passage →

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. — read the full passage →

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, — read the full passage →

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, — read the full passage →

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! — read the full passage →

having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet. — read the full passage →

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me. — read the full passage →

and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ — read the full passage →

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

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

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

An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. — read the full passage →

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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

behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; — read the full passage →

Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. — read the full passage →

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. — read the full passage →

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them. — read the full passage →

who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. — read the full passage →

Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings. — read the full passage →

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God. — read the full passage →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. — read the full passage →

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things. — read the full passage →

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

The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; — read the full passage →

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →