35 passages · Salvation
God tells Noah to come out with his family and the animals so they can spread over the earth and multiply. They all leave the ark.
The prophet pictures wolf with lamb and lion with ox, and a little child leading them, so that nothing harms on God's holy mountain. The earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD.
The desolation lasts until the Spirit is poured out from on high, when the desert becomes fruitful. Justice and righteousness will dwell in the land, bringing peace and quiet confidence.
Blind eyes open, deaf ears hear, the lame leap and the mute shout for joy. Water gushes in the desert, turning dry land into pools and springs.
God promises to answer the thirsty poor by opening rivers and fountains and turning the desert into pools and planted trees. The purpose is that all will know God has done it.
God promises to bring Babylon down and recalls how he once opened a path through the sea. He tells Israel not to dwell on the past because he is doing something new, making a way in the wilderness.
God promises to rebuild the storm-tossed city with precious stones and teach her children himself. She will be secure from oppression, and no weapon formed against her will prosper.
God promises to turn Zion's shame into pride, with peace as her governor and violence gone. He will be her everlasting light, replacing sun and moon, and her righteous people will possess the land forever.
God promises to create new heavens and a new earth and a joyful Jerusalem without weeping or early death. People will enjoy their houses and vineyards, God will answer before they call, and the wolf and lamb will feed together.
God tells Ezekiel that those in Jerusalem say the exiles are far from him, but he has been a sanctuary for them. He will gather them back, give them one heart and a new spirit in place of stone, and they will be his people.
God calls Israel to repent and cast off their transgressions, make themselves a new heart and spirit, and live, since he takes no pleasure in anyone's death.
God promises a covenant of peace, safety from wild beasts, seasonal showers and fruitful land. His people will know he is with them, and he calls them his flock and himself their God.
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.
When God cleanses Israel, the ruined cities will be rebuilt and the desolate land tilled until it is like the garden of Eden. The nations will see this, and towns will fill with people like flocks.
Ezekiel sees water flow from beneath the temple threshold, growing deeper as he is led along it. It turns the Dead Sea fresh and brings life, fish and evergreen trees with healing leaves.
The city's perimeter is described with twelve gates named for the tribes, three on each side. From then on the city's name will be THE LORD IS THERE.
God promises to restore David's fallen tent and to make crops overflow. He will bring Israel back from captivity to rebuild ruined cities and plant them in the land, never to be uprooted again.
On that day there is a unique light at evening, and living water flows out of Jerusalem east and west all year. The LORD will be king over all the earth, and Jerusalem will be raised up and live in safety.
Asked why His disciples do not fast, Jesus compares Himself to a bridegroom whose guests do not fast while He is with them. He adds sayings about patches and wineskins showing the new does not fit the old.
Nicodemus, a Pharisee and Jewish leader, visits Jesus by night. Jesus says one must be born again, or born of water and Spirit, and compares the Spirit's working to the wind.
Paul says believers who share Christ's death will also share his resurrection. Their old self was crucified so they are no longer slaves to sin, and they should consider themselves dead to sin and alive to God.
Paul says present sufferings are small compared with coming glory. Creation itself waits to be freed from decay, and believers, having the Spirit as a first installment, wait for the redemption of their bodies with hope.
In view of God's mercies, Paul urges believers to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice and to be transformed by the renewing of their minds instead of conforming to the world.
Answering how the dead are raised, Paul uses seeds, different kinds of bodies, and the splendor of sun, moon, and stars. The body is sown perishable and raised imperishable, bearing the likeness of the heavenly man.
Paul reveals a mystery: at the last trumpet the dead will be raised imperishable and the living changed, so death is swallowed up in victory. He thanks God for victory through Jesus and urges steadfast work.
Paul says that in Christ a person is a new creation. God reconciled the world to himself in Christ, and Paul and his coworkers are ambassadors urging people to be reconciled.
Writing in large letters, Paul says those pressing circumcision want to boast in the flesh. He boasts only in the cross of Christ, since what matters is a new creation. He closes with peace and mercy and a blessing.
Paul tells them not to live like the Gentiles in futile thinking and hardened hearts. They are to put off their old self and be renewed in mind and put on the new self created in righteousness and holiness.
Paul tells them to put to death sexual immorality, greed, anger, slander and lying, since they have taken off the old self and put on the new, renewed in God's image. In this new humanity, ethnic, social and religious divisions no longer matter, for Christ is all.
Since they have been purified by obedience to the truth, Peter urges deep love for one another. They have been born again through God's living word, which lasts forever while all flesh fades like grass.