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Bible Memory verse
God keeps in perfect peace the mind that is steadfast, because it trusts in him. It links peace to where your mind rests. Peace is guarded, not manufactured. Philippians 4:7 Colossians 3:2 Psalms 112:7 Keep my mind stayed on you, Lord, and guard it with the peace only you give.
Bible Memory verse
…waiting as the way strength is renewed, which is the opposite of how we usually try to recover. Isaiah 40:29 Psalms 27:14 2 Corinthians 4:16 Lord, I am tired. I will wait on you rather than push harder. Renew my strength.
Bible Memory verse
…makes it sturdier than the poster version: the promise held inside catastrophe, not instead of it. Isaiah 43:1-2 Deuteronomy 31:6 Psalms 46:1 Lord, you are with me and you uphold me. That is enough for today.
Bible Memory verse
…it. It sets an honest expectation. Through is the key word, not around. Daniel 3:25 Psalms 66:12 Isaiah 41:10 Lord, I am passing through this. Be with me in it, since you have not taken it away.
Bible Memory verse
Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and that by his wounds we are healed. Peter and Philip both read these words as speaking of Jesus. It is the Old Testament's…
Bible Memory verse
We all like sheep have gone astray, each turning to his own way, and the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. It defines sin as self direction and puts the remedy in the same verse. Everyone wandered, one bore it. Romans 3:23 1 Peter 2:25 Psalms 119:176 Lord, I have wanted my own way. Thank…
Bible Memory verse
…word to intensify it, so a threefold repetition is the strongest statement the language can make. Isaiah sees the holiness of God before he hears his own commission. Learn this verse and you learn where worship begins: not with what God does for you, but with who he is apart from you. Revelation…
Bible Memory collection
…the passages believers text each other at midnight. They are short, sturdy and worth having ready. Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters God will be with you, and the flames will not consume you. He does not promise absence of fire, but presence in it. Galatians 6:9 Do not grow weary in…
Bible Memory collection
…will misunderstand grace. These verses keep the diagnosis honest and hopeful at the same time. Isaiah 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray, each turning to his own way, and the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. 1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth…
Bible Memory collection
…teach you to speak of it in Scripture's own language of substitution, peace and finished work. Isaiah 53:5 Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and that by his…
Bible Memory collection
…and grace is astonishing. Carry these passages and the rest of the Bible reads differently. Isaiah 6:3 The seraphim call to one another that the Lord of Armies is holy, holy, holy, and that the whole earth is full of his glory. Hebrew repeats a word to intensify it, so a threefold repetition is the…
Bible Memory collection
…of him. These are three of the clearest places where the New Testament shows that reading at work. Isaiah 53:5 Seven centuries before Calvary, Isaiah writes that he was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and that by…
Reading plan
…Salvation Peace This plan draws from two sets of writers: the prophets Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Malachi, and then the gospel writers Matthew, Luke and John. Reading them side by side is the whole point.…
Chapter study
…for each household at Passover, a lamb led silently to slaughter in Isaiah 53, and finally a man identified as the Lamb of God in John 1:29. This is foreshadowing of the responsible kind. We are not reading Christ into…
Chapter study
…This is also how the prophets speak of offerings brought without faith. Isaiah 1:11-17 records God refusing sacrifices from hands full of violence, and 1 Samuel 15:22 says obedience is better than sacrifice. God…
Chapter study
…true vine. Israel had long been pictured as God's vine, in Psalm 80, in Isaiah 5, in Jeremiah 2 and Ezekiel 15, almost always in the context of a vineyard that disappointed its owner. Jesus does not claim to be a better…
Chapter study
…for he careth for you,' with the added reason that God Himself cares. Isaiah 26:3 'You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you,' an Old Testament anticipation of the same…
Chapter study
…superscription, which is the evidence for its anonymity. Ruth 3:2 and Isaiah 41:15-16 Biblical descriptions of threshing and winnowing, the practice behind the chaff image in verse 4. BDB and HALOT, standard Hebrew…
Chapter study
…than rewarding it. Psalm 42:5 David addressing his own downcast soul. Isaiah 53:6 'All we like sheep have gone astray,' the drift this verse answers. Luke 15:5 The shepherd who carries the found sheep home on his…
Chapter study
…it. God ordains all things, including hard providences Passages such as Isaiah 45:7 and Lamentations 3:37-38 place even calamity within God's rule, so that nothing falls outside His purpose. Yet James 1:13 insists He…
Dig Deeper
…with the same verb Paul uses, and the same remedy: your Father knows. Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you. The Old Testament version of verses 7 and 8 together. John 14:27…
Bible study
…about your life 1 Peter 5:6-7 - Casting all your anxieties on him Isaiah 26:3 - You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you John 14:27 - My peace I give to you Psalm 55:22 - Cast your burden on the Lord…
Bible study
…used of hunters. Goodness and covenant love hunt the believer down. Isaiah 40:11 - He tends his flock like a shepherd Ezekiel 34:11-16 - I myself will search for my sheep John 10:11 - I am the good shepherd Hebrews…
Dig Deeper
…hedging, digging out stones, building a tower and a winepress in Isaiah 5:1 to 2, and pruning in Leviticus 25:3 to 4 where vines are pruned in ordinary years and left alone in the sabbath year. So vinedressing, with its…
Book of the Bible
Isaiah has 66 chapters.
Biblical concept
…to expect both a near fulfilment and a final one. Prophets Joel, Amos, Isaiah and Zephaniah describe it as darkness, reckoning and rescue. Prophets Malachi promises a messenger before the great and dreadful day. Gospels…
Biblical concept
…through the redemption in Christ means someone did pay a real price. Isaiah 53:11 had already anticipated this shape centuries earlier, saying the righteous servant would justify many by bearing their iniquities…
Biblical concept
…against the LORD's commands. Prophets A shoot from the stump of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1), a righteous branch (Jeremiah 23:5), and a king coming humble on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9). Gospels Announced as the one who will…
Biblical concept
…turns aside death, the pattern Paul later applies directly to Christ. Isaiah 53:7 Describes a man led like a lamb to slaughter for the sins of others, centuries before it was fulfilled. John 1:29 John the Baptist names…
Biblical concept
…and the pattern of light overcoming darkness begins on the first page. Isaiah 9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. John 1:5 The light shines in darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.…
Biblical concept
…Jeremiah 2:13 They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters. OT Isaiah 55:1 Come to the waters, without money and without price. OT Ezekiel 47:9 Everything lives where the river goes. NT John 4:14 A well of water…
Biblical concept
…that opposition to God's king is opposition to God himself. Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord anoints the speaker to bring good news, a passage Jesus reads aloud and applies to himself. Luke 4:18 Jesus stands in the…
Biblical concept
…and a new earth are promised, with God dwelling among his people. Isaiah 65:17 God promises through Isaiah that he will create new heavens and a new earth, so complete a renewal that the former things will not even be…
Biblical concept
…on him. Psalm 23:5 You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows. Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me. Psalm 23:5 is often read as a soothing image, but the shepherd's oil…
Biblical concept
…Daniel speaks of many who sleep in the dust of the earth awaking. Isaiah tells a people who had watched their nation die that the dead shall live. The New Testament resurrection of Christ answers a hope the Old…
Word and phrase
…before God can be credited through faith rather than earned by deeds. Isaiah 64:6 Names the problem plainly: even our righteous acts are like filthy rags, ruling out self-made righteousness. Romans 3:21-22 Announces a…
Biblical concept
…Leviticus 17:11 The reason blood is central, given by God Himself. Isaiah 1:11-17 Sacrifice without justice and mercy is refused. Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Hebrews 10:12 One sacrifice for…
Biblical concept
…Exodus 14:13 Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD. Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid. Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under…
Biblical concept
…with favour. Psalm 23:1 The whole psalm rests on this one relationship. Isaiah 40:11 The strength of God in the previous verse becomes the tenderness of a shepherd carrying lambs. Ezekiel 34:11-16 God takes the flock…
Biblical concept
…advance of a pierced, suffering figure in passages such as Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53:5 He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. Matthew 27:35 And they crucified him, and parted…
Biblical concept
…under him. OT Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. OT Isaiah 40:11 He carries the lambs in his arms. OT Ezekiel 34:11 I myself will search for my sheep. NT John 10:11 The good shepherd gives his life…
Biblical concept
…and the New Testament writers read the incarnation as its fulfilment. Isaiah 9:6 Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God. John 1:14 The Word became…
Biblical concept
…tended runs through the Old Testament long before Jesus takes it up. Isaiah 5:7 The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel. John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,…
Biblical concept
…active and personal, creating in Genesis 1 and never returning empty in Isaiah 55. John draws on that background and then goes further by saying this Word became a man. Genesis 1:3 Psalm 33:6 Isaiah 55:11 If Jesus is…
Biblical concept
…the incarnation directly, though the promise behind it goes back to Isaiah's child called Immanuel. John 1:14 The single clearest statement in Scripture that God the Son took on a real human body. Isaiah 7:14 Centuries…
Biblical concept
Isaiah turns the whole nation into a vineyard and then tells you what it means: the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant planting (Isaiah 5:7). God planted,…
Bible question
…wrong motives, unrepented sin in Psalm 66:18, cherished injustice in Isaiah 1, and how a man treats his wife in 1 Peter 3:7. These are diagnostic, not condemning, and they are far more specific than a vague sense of…
Bible question
…to cleanse from all unrighteousness, and all leaves nothing outside. Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red…
Bible question
…truth but that it is truth, and he asks that it do work in them. Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.” WEB The claim includes durability. Scripture expects to outlast…
Bible question
…will not allow your holy one to see corruption, quoted in Acts 2:27. Isaiah 53:10-11 The servant crushed, and then seeing the result and being satisfied. What it secures Romans 4:25 Delivered up for our sins and raised…
Bible question
…is achievement. God takes the offence seriously before he releases it Isaiah 53:5 Divine forgiveness is not indulgence. It is costly. The wrong was named, weighed and paid for at the cross. Any account of forgiveness…
Bible question
…says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” Quoting Isaiah 28:16, Paul grounds the promise in Scripture rather than in his own authority. Whoever believes, without qualification of nationality or history,…
Bible question
…which makes trust a decision made inside fear rather than after it. Isaiah 26:3-4 You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an…
Bible question
…tries to wear down a god. Unconfessed sin and unforgiveness matter Isaiah 59:1-2 God's hand is not too short to save nor his ear dull; sin has separated. 1 Peter 3:7 says a husband's treatment of his wife can hinder…
Bible question
…Death and of Hades. First and last is the self-description of Yahweh in Isaiah 44:6. Here it is said by the one who was dead, and the angel of Revelation 19:10 refuses the worship that Christ accepts. The one holding…
Bible question
…of the Lord in people who met God and were changed by what they saw. Isaiah in the temple Isaiah 6:1-8 He saw the Lord high and lifted up and immediately said he was undone, a man of unclean lips. Nobody had accused him…
Bible question
…given is not that anxiety is shameful but that God genuinely cares. Isaiah 41:10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will…
Bible question
Isaiah 41:10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. WEB Read the…
Bible question
…Loneliness is answered first with a presence, not with a plan. Isaiah 41:10 Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold…
Bible question
…suffering was not the end of the story. John's vision draws heavily on Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. The new heaven and new earth of Revelation 21:1 echoes Isaiah 65:17. The river and tree of life echo Ezekiel 47 and…
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