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Reading plan
…own path. Psalm 40 Rescue David remembers being pulled out of a pit of destruction and given a new song to sing, which becomes his evidence for trusting God with whatever comes next. Rescue in the past is meant to fund…
Devotional
…are not blindsided by shame. Proverbs 16:18 says pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. The two proverbs together form a pattern the whole book returns to: pride is a fool's blindness to its…
Devotional
…to swallow up death forever, and Hosea 13:14, where death's plagues and destruction are addressed directly. He takes prophetic promises originally spoken to Israel and applies them to the resurrection of Christ and of…
Devotional
…consumed... they are new every morning,' chesed proven even amid the destruction of Jerusalem. Psalm 100:5 A shorter parallel statement: the LORD is good, His loving kindness endures forever, and His faithfulness to all…
Devotional
…twist Paul's letters, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Nehemiah 8:8 They read from the book, in the Law of God, clearly, and gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading, an early…
Devotional
…Lord over the fate of Sodom. Genesis 19:15-29 Lot's rescue and Sodom's destruction, judgment and mercy enacted in the same chapter. 2 Peter 2:6-9 God knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and to keep the…
Devotional
…in him." WEB This line sits inside a book written after Jerusalem's destruction, by someone who has just described bitterness, affliction, and being made to sit in darkness like the dead. Contentment here is not written…
Reading plan day
David remembers being pulled out of a pit of destruction and given a new song to sing, which becomes his evidence for trusting God with whatever comes next. Rescue in the past is meant to fund confidence in the present.…
Biblical concept
…better. 2 Corinthians 5:17 The world's future according to Scripture is destruction and replacement with something unrelated, not renewal of what exists. Romans 8 describes creation being delivered and set free, not…
Topic study
…pressure to return to familiar temple worship, most likely before the destruction of the temple in AD 70, though the letter does not name its author or date and both remain genuinely uncertain. The anchor was a common…
Place in Scripture
…2 Kings 25, Ezra 3 to 6, and Josephus, Jewish War Scripture records the destruction and the rebuilding; Josephus describes Herod's enlargement and the fall of the city. Exodus The tabernacle is built so that God may…
Bible question
…denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. WEB God warned about this plainly and repeatedly. Read the warnings before the explanation. 2 Peter 2:1-3 But false prophets also arose…
Bible question
…and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction,' showing that Scripture-twisting was recognized and warned against from the earliest days of the church. Have you ever used a verse in…
Bible question
…snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced…
Bible question
…those who reject the gospel as being 'punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord.' Does the reality of judgment change the urgency with which you pray for and speak to people who do not know…
Bible question
…including secretaries and second drafts, and it survived deliberate destruction. Both facts are in the text itself. Luke, the researcher Luke 1:1-4 Luke was not an eyewitness of Jesus' ministry. He gathered testimony…
Bible question
…Lamentations 3:22-23 Written in the middle of a book that mourns the destruction of Jerusalem, this passage says 'it is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new…
The Sunday Study
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