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Bible Memory collection
The New Testament spends most of its space here. These passages are the ones believers reach for in ordinary decisions. Micah 6:8 God has shown what is good: to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus names the greatest commandment as loving God with all your…
Bible Memory collection
Jesus did not tell his disciples to stop wanting greatness. He told them where it is found. These passages hold that redefinition together. Mark 10:43-45 Whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wants to be first shall be servant of all, for even the Son of Man…
Bible Memory verse
As each has received a gift, serve one another with it as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. The word for manager is the household steward, someone trusted with what belongs to another. It removes both pride and excuse. What you have is not yours to boast in and not yours to…
Bible Memory verse
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. The command to hand over anxiety sits inside a command to humble ourselves, which means anxiety is often the sound of trying to carry what only…
Bible Memory verse
God gives more grace, for he resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. James quotes Proverbs, and both Peter and he apply it to life in the church. It shows that pride is not merely unattractive but opposed by God himself, and that humility is where grace lands. Proverbs 3:34 1 Peter 5:5-6…
Bible Memory verse
God has shown what is good: to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. It compresses a whole ethic into one line, and it puts humility with God at the centre of public justice. Hosea 6:6 Matthew 23:23 Isaiah 1:17 Lord, make me just in my dealings, merciful in my judgments, and…
52 Week Journey
Humility is one of the few virtues that vanishes the moment you claim it. The Bible does not present it as low self-esteem or self-hatred. It presents it as an accurate view of yourself before God, and a willingness to…
Devotional
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. WEB Psalm 51 is David's prayer after Nathan confronted him over Bathsheba and Uriah. It is one of the…
Devotional
Psalm 141:3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. WEB David does not resolve to control his own tongue by willpower. He asks Yahweh to set the watch and keep the door, treating restraint of…
Devotional
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. WEB Paul writes this right after describing how to restore someone caught in a fault, in verse 1. Bearing burdens is not abstract goodwill; it…
Devotional
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility. WEB Proverbs draws a straight line between the fear of Yahweh and humility, and another between humility and honor. This is not a formula for…
Devotional
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” WEB…
Daily reading
Read Matthew 11 whole. The invitation arrives after John's doubt and after towns that refused, which makes the gentleness in verse 29 remarkable. Jesus answers John's doubt with evidence rather than rebuke. Come to me,…
Daily reading
Read 2 Corinthians 12. It is Paul's strangest boast, because the thing he stops hiding is the thing that keeps him close to God. He asked three times, which is the same number as Gethsemane. Sufficient is present…
Devotional
Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have. WEB The disciples' first reaction to the risen Jesus is fear, supposing…
Devotional
Philippians 2:6-7 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a bondservant, being made in the likeness of men. WEB Paul places…
Devotional
John 13:4-5 He arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them…
Devotional
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, WEB This verse follows directly from yesterday's, and it moves humility from a posture toward people to a posture…
Devotional
Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. WEB Of all the things Jesus could have said about Himself when inviting the exhausted…
Devotional
Psalm 34:18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. WEB This verse does not say God is near to those who have recovered from their broken heart. It says He is near to…
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Genesis 3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. WEB The serpent's temptation was not primarily about fruit. It was about status. Eve and…
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2 Timothy 2:15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. WEB Paul assumes it is possible to handle Scripture badly, which is why…
Devotional
Exodus 3:7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. WEB Before Moses receives his commission, God…
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Genesis 16:13 She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?” WEB Hagar is a servant driven into the wilderness by Sarah's harsh…
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Mark 10:14-15 But Jesus, when he saw it, was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you,…
Devotional
Psalm 23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. WEB David, who was himself a shepherd before he was king, describes the LORD in the same terms he once used for his own work with sheep. The image is deliberately…
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Philippians 2:9-10 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the…
Devotional
Philippians 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. WEB Paul is not primarily teaching doctrine here; he is asking the Philippians to think like…
Devotional
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? WEB Micah answers Israel's question about how to please God, a…
Devotional
Matthew 20:26-27 It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, WEB Jesus does not tell His disciples…
Reading plan day
Zechariah pictures Israel's king arriving not on a warhorse but humble, riding on a donkey, which is exactly how Jesus enters Jerusalem centuries later. The kind of king this is matters as much as the fact that he…
Reading plan day
Mary's song of praise, known as the Magnificat, celebrates a God who scatters the proud, brings down rulers from their thrones, and lifts up the humble. It announces from the very start that Jesus' coming would reverse…
Biblical concept
Israel began with God as king. Gideon refuses the crown by saying the LORD will rule over you (Judges 8:23), and when the people later demand a king like the nations, God tells Samuel they have not rejected you, they…
Biblical concept
This is the title Jesus uses of himself more than any other. In Ezekiel the phrase simply means a human being, but in Daniel 7 one like a son of man comes with the clouds and receives an everlasting kingdom from the…
Biblical concept
The incarnation is the entry of the eternal Son of God into human life as a real human being. John 1:14 states it in a single sentence: the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory. Philippians 2:6…
Christian Living
Philippians 2:3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; WEB philippians 2 Paul does not ask for low self-esteem. He asks for a mind that is free…
The Sunday Study
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