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Bible Memory collection
Temptation is not sin, and it is not unbeatable. Scripture gives both the escape route and the sympathetic priest who walked it first. 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation is beyond what others have faced, God is faithful, and he will provide a way out so you can endure it. Hebrews 2:18 Because Jesus…
Bible Memory collection
…truth. Deception is the enemy's usual method, so these passages are the usual answer. John 8:44 Jesus says the devil was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because he is a liar and the father of lies. Jesus names lying as the devil's native speech. Matthew 4:4 Answering…
Bible Memory verse
Jesus says the devil was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because he is a liar and the father of lies. Jesus names lying as the devil's native speech. It tells you what to expect. Temptation usually arrives as a plausible sentence rather than as an obvious evil.…
Bible Memory verse
Answering the tempter, Jesus quotes Deuteronomy: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God's mouth. He meets a real temptation with a remembered verse. It is the reason Bible memory belongs in this category at all. Jesus used Scripture he already knew, in a…
Bible Memory collection
Before you memorise what Jesus does, memorise who he is. These passages guard the church from a smaller Christ than the Bible gives. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John opens his gospel before Genesis 1 opens. John 14:6 Jesus answers Thomas:…
Chapter study
…shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' The promise is spoken to a church that has just sacrificially given, and it is explicitly tied to that generosity. It is not a general…
Devotional
…connecting reverence to rest as well as protection. John 4:14 The water Jesus gives becomes a spring of water welling up to eternal life, a similar image with its source named directly in Christ. What snare has…
Devotional
…alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" WEB Jesus says this to the devil after forty days without food, at the exact moment hunger would make bread from stones seem like the most reasonable…
Devotional
…Lord. The doubling in Proverbs suggests this was a real and recurring temptation in the marketplace, worth naming more than once. Leviticus 19:35-36 Just balances, just weights, and just measures commanded, tied to the…
Devotional
…human effort to divine ability. This is the fitting end to a week on temptation and endurance. Watching, praying, resisting and enduring are all real and required, but they are not the final ground of confidence. The…
Devotional
…6:9-10 The love of money as a root of all kinds of evil, and the temptations that come with wanting to be rich. Luke 12:15 Jesus' warning that life does not consist in the abundance of possessions, spoken before the…
Devotional
…day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. WEB Jesus has just described signs, wars, and the coming of the Son of Man in verses full of detail. Then he stops and says plainly that the day and hour…
Devotional
…for a season before they bear fruit. Weariness in doing good is a named temptation, not a rare failure. The harvest is promised, not guaranteed on a schedule. Lord, keep me from growing weary in the good You have given…
Devotional
…by humbling yourselves under God's mighty hand. Matthew 4:10-11 Jesus resists the devil with Scripture in the wilderness, and the devil leaves him. What would it look like this week to submit to God first, before trying…
Devotional
…at the end of a passage about anxiety over food, drink and clothing. Jesus does not tell His hearers that these needs do not matter. He tells them what to put first, and promises the rest will follow. Seeking the…
Devotional
…Holy Spirit. James 1:2-4 Count it all joy when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 2 Corinthians 4:17 Our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us…
Devotional
…alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" WEB Jesus is led into the wilderness by the Spirit, fasts forty days, and is hungry. The tempter's first move targets that exact need: if you are the Son…
Devotional
James 1:12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him. WEB James 1:12 pronounces a blessing on the one who…
Devotional
…a lion in the road. The repetition suggests this is a common, ordinary temptation worth naming plainly. The book also balances diligence with wisdom about its limits. Psalm 127:1-2 warns that unless the Lord builds the…
Devotional
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. WEB Jesus says this to Peter, James and John after finding them asleep while He prayed in anguish…
52 Week Journey
…James 1:2-3 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. WEB Faith That Obeys Abraham went out not knowing where he went. Hebrews 11:8…
Chapter study
…shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The mountain of provision became the mountain of the temple, and the temple's whole calendar of substitutes was fulfilled just outside those…
Chapter study
…and Christian tradition has long associated the Torah with Moses, and Jesus refers to the writings of Moses (John 5:46-47). The events belong to the earliest period of the biblical narrative, before any dating scheme…
52 Week Journey
…loss or opposition that tests whether faith will hold. The other is temptation, the pull from within to satisfy a good desire in a wrong way, or a wrong desire at all. Scripture treats them as related, since both are…
Chapter study
John 15 is spoken in motion. Jesus has just finished the Passover meal with His disciples, and John 14 ends with the words 'arise, let us go hence.' Many readers take that sentence as the close of a scene rather than as…
Chapter study
…a reader from turning the psalm into mere moral effort. Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus teaches two gates, two roads, two trees and two foundations in one sermon. The two ways structure of Psalm 1:6 is taken up directly in his…
Chapter study
…as a shepherd about his own God, and the New Testament then shows Jesus taking the shepherd role for Himself in John 10:11. Psalm 23 is not a coded prophecy. It is a true description of the Lord's care which Christ…
Biblical concept
Temptation in Scripture is the pull toward evil. James 1:13 to 14 states the source plainly: God tempts no one, and each person is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire and enticed. Scripture also speaks of…
Biblical concept
…justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. The ground is his work, and the means is faith. Deuteronomy 25:1 Judges are instructed to justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,…
Biblical concept
…The incarnation holds together two claims Scripture never lets go of: Jesus is fully God and fully human. Colossians 2:9 says the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily, and Hebrews 2:17 says he was made like his…
Christian Living
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that…
Topic study
…a covenant conversation, its posture is not performance. In Matthew 6:6 Jesus tells his disciples to go into their room and shut the door. The Father is not impressed by the volume, the vocabulary or the audience. He is…
Place in Scripture
…voice cries, in the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD. Matthew 4:1 Jesus is led up by the Spirit into the wilderness. Read Matthew 4 next to Deuteronomy 8 and the pattern is deliberate. Israel was in the wilderness…
Biblical concept
…1 Corinthians 10:13 says a way of escape is provided with the temptation, and Genesis 4:7 speaks of ruling over sin, so Scripture does not present the pull as leaving a person with no option. 1 Corinthians 10:13 Genesis…
Biblical concept
…look at. John 1:1 John opens his whole gospel with this title before Jesus is even named, so that every later scene is read in light of who this person eternally is. John 1:1 States in one breath that the Word is…
Topic study
…Peter calls it a living hope, and he grounds it in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The empty tomb is not an illustration of hope. It is the evidence on which hope stands. Revelation: the final hope…
Bible question
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that…
Bible question
…fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic…
Bible question
…shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. WEB Peter offers a generous limit and Jesus dismantles the…
Bible question
…Experienced fishermen were convinced they were about to drown, and Jesus was asleep in the boat. Their fear was reasonable, and their conclusion that he did not care was not. Jesus stilled the wind with a word and then…
Bible question
…WEB This is one of the few questions the disciples asked out loud, and Jesus answered it directly. Read his answer before any advice about prayer. Matthew 6:6-13 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and…
Bible question
1 Timothy 6:9-10 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a 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…
Bible question
…law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; WEB Fall short…
Bible question
…was. He was religious, sincere and stuck. God sent Philip to explain Jesus from that very passage, and the man believed and was baptised on the road. The gospel is not a new subject added to the Bible. It is the…
Bible question
…itself. Luke, the researcher Luke 1:1-4 Luke was not an eyewitness of Jesus' ministry. He gathered testimony from those who were and wrote an ordered account. The result is treated as Scripture by the church, and Paul…
Bible question
…Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law. WEB An apostle writes about doing what…
Bible question
…pain, he is measuring it against something heavier. John 11:33-35 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid…
Bible question
…is an invitation to check. Luke 24:36-43 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a…
Bible question
…prayer, and Scripture gives you the words for it. The Canaanite mother Jesus seemed to ignore Matthew 15:22-28 She asked Jesus to heal her daughter and he answered her nothing at all. Then the disciples asked him to…
Bible question
…The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all…
Bible question
…my God!” WEB Read three passages before any argument. One is a claim Jesus made, one is what his hearers understood by it, one is what a disciple said to his face. John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell…
Bible question
…brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.” Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. WEB The initiative…
Bible question
…sign of God's absence, and it still deserves to be told to him plainly. Jesus, left by everyone Matthew 26:56 His friends fell asleep while he prayed, then all of them forsook him and fled. On the cross he cried out the…
Bible question
…is no gap and no waiting room, only a change of address. Luke 23:43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” WEB Today you will be with me in paradise. Jesus tells a dying man…
Bible question
…anything made that has been made. WEB John does not begin the life of Jesus at Bethlehem. He begins before creation, and he says three things in one sentence: the Word already was, the Word was with God, the Word was…
Bible question
…knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. WEB Jesus said more about the Holy Spirit on the night before his death than anywhere else. Start there rather than with experience. John 14:16-17 I…
Bible question
…that which was lost.” WEB Three sentences of stated purpose, two from Jesus and one from Paul. Read them before any explanation, and notice that each one names the people he came for. Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came…
Bible question
…justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of…
Bible question
…he would not believe without touching the wounds. He had walked with Jesus for years and still could not accept the news secondhand. Jesus came back a week later specifically for him and offered his hands and side. He…
Bible question
…title has a history. Read where it comes from, then hear it spoken over Jesus, then hear how his hearers took it. Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your…
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