The Bible

THE BIBLE
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THE OLD TESTAMENT

The Books of the Law

Gn 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Ex 20:2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Lv 19:2 ... Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Nb 1:2 Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

Dt 26:18 And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.

The Historical Books

Js 1:2 Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them�to the Israelites.

Jg 21:25 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

Ru 1:16 But Ruth replied, �Don�t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.

1 Sm 17:49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead...

2 Sm 5:10 And he [David] became more and more powerful, because the LORD God Almighty was with him.

1 Ki 10:23 King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.

2 Ki 24:14 He [Nebuchadnezzar] carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans�a total of ten thousand...

1 Ch 28:3 But God said to me [David],�You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.�

2 Ch 36:20 He [Nebuchadnezzar] carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

Er 1:5 Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites ... prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Ne 2:17 ...Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.

Es 4:14 ... And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

The Poetical Books

Jb 1:22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Ps 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

Pr 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Ec 1:2 �Meaningless! Meaningless!� says the Teacher.�Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.�

So 8:6 ... for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

The Major Prophets

Is 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities...

Jr 9:16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known...

Lm 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean...

Ek 1:10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.

Dn 6:22 My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions...

The Minor Prophets

Hs 3:1 The LORD said to me, �Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress...�

Jl 1:4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten...

Am 5:24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Ob 10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you [Edom] will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

Jh 1:17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah ...

Mc 6:8 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.

Na 1:14 The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: �You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods...�

Hk 1:6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Zp 1:2 �I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,� declares the LORD.

Hg 1:14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel ... They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,

Zc 9:9 ... See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Ml 3:1 I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me...

THE NEW TESTAMENT

The Gospels

Mt 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Mk 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Lk 9:23 Then he said to them all: �Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.

Jn 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The Early Church

Ac 1:8 ...you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

The Pauline Epistles

Rm 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Cr 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

2 Cr 12:9 But he said to me, �My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.� Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ�s power may rest on me.

Ga 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Ep 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Pp 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Co 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.

1 Th 5:16 Rejoice always.

2 Th 3:10 ...�The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.�

1 Tm 3:2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.

2 Tm 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Tt 1:12 One of Crete�s own prophets has said it: �Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.�

Pm 16 no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother...

The Other Epistles

He 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Jm 2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

1 Pt 5:8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

2 Pt 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies...

1 Jn 3:23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

2 Jn 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.

3 Jn 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.

Jd 21 keep yourselves in God�s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

The Prophetic Book

Rv 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, �Yes, I am coming soon.� Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

Gn 1:1	In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Ex 20:2	I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Lv 19:2	... Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
Nb 1:2	Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
Dt 26:18	And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.

Js 1:2	Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them�to the Israelites.
Jg 21:25	In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.
Ru 1:16	But Ruth replied, �Don�t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
1 Sm 17:49	Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead...
2 Sm 5:10	And he [David] became more and more powerful, because the LORD God Almighty was with him.
1 Ki 10:23	King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
2 Ki 24:14	He [Nebuchadnezzar] carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans�a total of ten thousand...
1 Ch 28:3	But God said to me [David],�You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.�
2 Ch 36:20	He [Nebuchadnezzar] carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
Er 1:5	Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites ... prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Ne 2:17	...Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.
Es 4:14	... And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

Jb 1:22	In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.
Ps 150:6	Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
Pr 1:7	The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ec 1:2	�Meaningless! Meaningless!� says the Teacher.�Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.�
So 8:6	... for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

Is 53:5	But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities...
Jr 9:16	I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known...
Lm 1:8	Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean...
Ek 1:10	Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.
Dn 6:22	My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions...

Hs 3:1	The LORD said to me, �Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress...�
Jl 1:4	What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten...
Am 5:24	But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Ob 10	Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you [Edom] will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.
Jh 1:17	And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah ...
Mc 6:8	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.
Na 1:14	The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: �You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods...�
Hk 1:6	I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
Zp 1:2	�I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,� declares the LORD.
Hg 1:14	So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel ... They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,
Zc 9:9	... See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Ml 3:1	I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me...

Mt 5:17	Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Mk 10:45	For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Lk 9:23	Then he said to them all: �Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
Jn 3:16	For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Rm 5:8	But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Cr 13:13	And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
2 Cr 12:9	But he said to me, �My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.� Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ�s power may rest on me.
Ga 5:1	It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Ep 4:32	Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Pp 4:6	Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Co 3:23	Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.
1 Th 5:16	Rejoice always.
2 Th 3:10	...�The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.�
1 Tm 3:2	Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.
2 Tm 4:7	I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Tt 1:12	One of Crete�s own prophets has said it: �Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.�
Pm 16	no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother...

He 11:6	And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Jm 2:26	As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
1 Pt 5:8	Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
2 Pt 2:1	But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies...
1 Jn 3:23	And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
2 Jn 8	Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
3 Jn 11	Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
Jd 21	keep yourselves in God�s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.