48 passages · God
Adam names his wife Eve, and God clothes them in skins. He then sends them out of the garden and posts cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
Moses says he has not been told who will go with him, and asks to know God's ways. God promises his Presence will go with them, and Moses insists the people would otherwise not be distinct from other nations.
God tells Moses to cut two new tablets and climb Sinai alone. The LORD descends in a cloud and declares he is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger and forgiving, yet does not overlook guilt. Moses worships and asks him to go with them.
God gives Aaron and his sons words to bless Israel, asking that the LORD bless, keep, show favor and give peace, and so put His name on them.
Moses says Israel will soon cross the Jordan and face strong nations, but God will go ahead of them. He stresses that the land is given because of the nations' wickedness, not Israel's righteousness, since Israel is stubborn.
Boaz tells Ruth to stay in his field, under his workers' protection, and to drink freely. When she asks why a foreigner is favored, he praises her loyalty to Naomi and asks the LORD to reward her.
David comforts Bathsheba and she bears a son named Solomon, whom the LORD loves and names Jedidiah through Nathan.
At the evening offering Ezra kneels and confesses the people's long history of guilt. He also thanks God for giving them a remnant and a measure of new life, even though they remain under Persian rule.
The people ask God to be gracious and bless them so that his ways and salvation become known to every nation. The refrain calls all peoples to praise him, since he judges justly.
David praises the LORD as gracious, compassionate, slow to anger, and good to all He has made. All creation will thank Him and His people will speak of His kingdom, which is everlasting.
The LORD waits to show compassion and will answer when His people cry out. They will hear 'This is the way, walk in it,' throw away idols and receive rich rain and harvest, when God heals His people's wounds.
God invites everyone thirsty or without money to come, buy and eat for free, asking why they spend on what does not satisfy. He offers an everlasting covenant, echoing his promise to David, and says nations will run to Israel.
God traces Jerusalem's origins: a Canaanite-born infant left unwashed and unwanted, whom he found, cared for, and told to live.
God promises to bring Israel home, cleanse them, and give them a new heart and his Spirit so they will follow his laws. They will be his people and remember their past ways with shame.
Instead of ending it, God will speak tenderly and lead her into the wilderness to start over. He will betroth her to Himself forever, and the names of the children reverse: 'No Compassion' and 'Not My People' will be called 'My people'.
God promises to heal their turning away, love them freely and be like dew, so Israel blossoms like a lily and roots like cedars. He asks what Ephraim has to do with idols, since fruit comes from Him.
God says even now the people should return to him with fasting and weeping, tearing their hearts and not their garments. Joel calls everyone, from the aged to the newlywed, to a solemn assembly, where the priests are to plead for God to spare his people.
Displeased that Nineveh was spared, Jonah prays that he fled to Tarshish because he knew God is gracious and relenting, and asks to die. God asks whether he has a right to be angry.
The LORD promises to pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on David's house and Jerusalem, and they will look on the one they pierced and mourn as for an only child. Every clan will mourn separately.
Jesus describes a landowner who hires workers for his vineyard at dawn for a denarius, then keeps hiring more at the third, sixth, ninth and eleventh hours, promising to pay whatever is right.
At evening everyone receives the same denarius, and the all-day workers complain. The owner answers that he has been fair and is free to be generous, so the last will be first and the first last.
The son comes to his senses and decides to return and ask to be a hired servant. His father runs to embrace him, restores him with robe, ring, and sandals, and holds a feast.
The older son hears the celebration, becomes angry, and refuses to join in, complaining of his years of faithful service. The father assures him and says celebrating his brother's return was fitting.
After much discussion, Peter reminds the council that God gave the Spirit to Gentiles just as to Jews, cleansing their hearts by faith. He says both are saved by the grace of Jesus, and Barnabas and Paul then describe God's signs among the Gentiles.
Paul says God's righteousness is now shown apart from the law, given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. All have sinned, and are justified freely by grace through the redemption in Christ.
Paul contrasts Adam's trespass, which led to condemnation, with Christ's act of obedience, which brings justification and life. Where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
Paul rejects the idea that believers should continue in sin so grace may increase. He says that in baptism they were united with Christ in his death so they might live a new life.
Paul contrasts the outcome of the old life, shameful and ending in death, with the outcome of serving God, which leads to holiness and eternal life. He sums it up: sin pays wages of death, but God gives eternal life as a gift.
Paul asks whether God has rejected Israel and answers no, pointing to himself as an Israelite who believes. As in Elijah's day, a remnant chosen by grace remains, while others were hardened.
Paul thanks God for the grace given to the Corinthians, noting they lack no spiritual gift as they await Christ's return, and affirms that God is faithful to sustain them.