The Dove

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. — read the full passage →

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, — read the full passage →

The dove came back to him at evening and, behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

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.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

“‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

“‘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:

“‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

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

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, — read the full passage →

“‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest:

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

“‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. — read the full passage →

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him anymore.

but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground, — read the full passage →

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. — read the full passage →

He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

I and the Father are one.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! — read the full passage →

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

A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

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.

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. — read the full passage →

“‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. — read the full passage →

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

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.

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. — read the full passage →

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made, — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

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 →

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 him was life, and the life was the light of men.