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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
A believer who cannot describe sin biblically 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…
Bible Memory collection
Every list of gifts in the New Testament comes with the same purpose attached: the good of the church. Learn these and you have the rule for reading the rest. 1 Peter 4:10 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…
Bible Memory collection
Most wrong thinking about our lives begins with wrong thinking about God. These passages let God describe himself in his own words. Exodus 34:6-7 God passes before Moses and names himself compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving yet not leaving guilt…
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The gospel is news before it is advice. These passages give you the message in its apostolic shape, so you can tell it without drifting into moral improvement. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 Paul hands on what he received as of first importance: Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was…
Bible Memory verse
God passes before Moses and names himself compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving yet not leaving guilt unaddressed. This is the Bible's most quoted self description of God, echoed across the Old Testament. Mercy and justice are both his. Psalms…
Bible Memory verse
In the middle of a book of grief over a ruined city, Jeremiah says the Lord's loving kindnesses do not cease, that his compassion does not fail, and that they are new every morning: great is his faithfulness. The setting matters. This is not written from comfort, but from the ruins of Jerusalem.…
Bible Memory verse
In view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. It makes ordinary obedience an act of worship, and it begins with mercy rather than duty. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Hebrews 13:15-16 Colossians 3:17 Father, in view of your…
Bible Memory verse
Paul names gifts that differ according to the grace given: prophecy, service, teaching, exhortation, giving, leading, showing mercy, each to be done according to its own measure. The list is practical and mostly unspectacular. Most service in a church looks like this: giving generously, leading…
Bible Memory verse
When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous works we had done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, poured out richly through Jesus Christ, so that justified by grace we would become…
Chapter study
Psalm 23 is one of the most quoted passages in the Bible and one of the least observed. Many people carry it in memory without ever slowing down to notice how carefully every sentence is arranged. David is not writing…
Verse study
טוֹב וָחֶסֶד יִרְדְּפוּנִי tov vachesed yirdefuni Hebrew Radaf means to pursue or chase, the word used of armies and avengers. Chesed is loyal covenant love, sworn commitment rather than warm feeling. A reversal hiding…
52 Week Journey
Judgment and mercy are not opposites fighting for control of God's character. Scripture holds them together in the same sentences, sometimes the same verse, refusing to let either one cancel the other. God judges sin…
Devotional
Psalm 96:13 Let all the trees of the woods sing for joy before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the truth with his peoples. WEB The psalm ends not…
Daily reading
Read Lamentations 3 whole, all sixty-six verses, before you read a word of commentary. The turn at verse 21 only lands if you have sat through verses 1 to 20 first. How long the complaint runs before hope is named, and…
Devotional
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. WEB After a book that has tested pleasure, wisdom, work and wealth and found each one…
Devotional
Matthew 12:36-37 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. WEB Jesus is not…
Devotional
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. WEB This psalm is attributed, in its heading, to David after Nathan…
Devotional
Jonah 4:2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow…
Devotional
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and…
Devotional
Exodus 34:6-7 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving…
Devotional
James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. WEB James writes this after warning against favoritism, and the principle he states cuts both ways: those who show…
Devotional
Leviticus 19:15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness. WEB The command cuts both ways.…
Devotional
1 Peter 4:10-11 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. WEB Peter assumes that every believer has received something worth putting to…
Devotional
Genesis 18:25 May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do…
Devotional
Genesis 18:32 He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.” WEB Abraham is interceding for Sodom, a…
Devotional
Genesis 7:23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those…
Devotional
Matthew 9:36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. WEB The gospels repeatedly tell you what Jesus saw before…
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…
Devotional
Exodus 20:1-2 God spoke all these words, saying, "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." WEB Before a single commandment is given, God identifies Himself by what…
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…
Devotional
Romans 12:19 Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.” WEB Paul quotes Deuteronomy 32:35 to instruct believers…
Devotional
Romans 3:25-26 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his…
Reading plan day
David wrote this after his sin with Bathsheba was exposed, and he does not soften what he did or bargain with God. He simply asks for mercy, for a clean heart, and for the joy of salvation to be restored, which is the…
Reading plan day
Jesus refuses to condemn a woman his accusers wanted to stone, and later tells the crowd that the truth will set them free. Both moments reveal the same thing: Jesus deals in mercy and truth together, never one without…
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
2 Corinthians 12:9 He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. WEB…
Christian Living
Lamentations 3:22-23 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. WEB lamentations 3 These lines sit…
Bible question
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. WEB Let God answer this before anyone comforts you or frightens you about it. 1 John…
Bible question
Ephesians 4:32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. WEB God speaks about forgiveness before we explain it, and his words set a standard no…
Bible question
Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. WEB This is the passage where Paul answers the question directly,…
Bible question
Ephesians 2:8-9 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. WEB Grace should be heard from God before it is defined by…
Bible question
1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. WEB Rather than starting with a list of behaviours, Scripture gives definitions. Three passages define sin from three angles. 1 John 3:4-6…
Bible question
Exodus 34:6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, WEB Scripture does not begin with a definition of God…
The Sunday Study
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