Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NIV This famous commandment was given to the Israelites by Moses as directed by the voice and word of God. According to Jesus Christ,...
If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. Matthew 18:15 WEB Chapter eighteen of Matthew’s gospel begins with a question from a disciple to Jesus., “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”...
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. Mark 12:29-30 KJV We serve...
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John 1:18 KJV To beget is to sire or become the father of a child. Begat is the past tense of this word. Begotten is the past participle of beget. It is an adjective which is a...
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Isaiah 14:12 KJV This verse comes from a passage of prophecy predicting the downfall of the satanically inspired King of Babylon. It denotes the judgment of death...
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 NIV Micah is known as one of the minor prophets in the Old Testament. Chapter one begins with a message of judgment for corruption and...
Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. James 5:13 NIV The Book of James is a short letter separated into only five chapters. Chapter five begins with warnings to the rich who oppress the innocent. It continues, encouraging the faithful to...
For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16 WEB Paul and his co-writer Timothy begin their letter to the...
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Jeremiah 31:31 KJV Jeremiah was one of the last great prophets in the Old Testament. After the scattering of the northern ten tribes of Israel, God sent Jeremiah to warn...
The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. Acts 4:32 WEB This verse describes the level of commitment and unity present in the early church, the things in...
They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. Nehemiah 8:8 WEB Nehemiah was a secular Jewish leader. He was not a prophet or a priest but participated in rebuilding the city of Jerusalem. Nehemiah lived in the time of the exile...
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 7:21 WEB Scripture is clear that salvation comes by faith alone. As Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-10, “for by grace you have been saved through faith,...
