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• Jeremiah 17Bible

  Jeremiah 17 addresses Judah's deep-rooted sin and coming judgment, contrasts the one who trusts in man with the one who trusts in the LORD, records Jeremiah's prayer of lament, and presents the message on Sabbath observance that he proclaimed at the city gates.

• Jeremiah 14Bible

  Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."

• Jeremiah 49Bible

  Jeremiah 49 is part of the oracles against the nations. It proclaims judgment on Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, and Elam, and it also promises future restoration to Ammon and Elam.

• Amos 6Bible

  Amos 6 pronounces woe on the leaders in Zion and Samaria who live at ease and are not grieved by the nation's ruin. It announces that they will be the first to go into captivity and that Israel will be trampled by a foreign nation.

• Micah 2Bible

  Micah 2 pronounces judgment on those who seize the fields and houses of others, indicts both the people who try to silence prophecy and the false prophets, and promises that the remnant of Israel will be gathered again.

• Luke 16Bible

  Luke 16 centers on the Parable of the Unjust Steward and the account of the rich man and Lazarus, addressing the proper attitude toward wealth, the enduring validity of the law, divorce, and destiny after death.

• John 9Bible

  John 9 recounts how Jesus healed a man blind from birth on the Sabbath, and how the Pharisees questioned the healed man and his parents about the event and then cast him out.

• Philemon 1Bible

  Philemon 1 is the entire Epistle to Philemon, a book of a single chapter. It is a short letter in which the imprisoned Paul asks Philemon to receive Onesimus not as a servant but as a beloved brother.

• Hebrews 12Bible

  Hebrews 12 builds on the witnesses of faith in chapter 11 and exhorts readers to run the race with patience, looking unto Jesus. It addresses the meaning of the Lord's chastening, the warning example of Esau, the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, and the kingdom that cannot be moved.

• Hebrews 6Bible

  Hebrews 6 urges readers not to remain with elementary teachings but to press on to maturity, and it warns about those who were once enlightened and then fell away. It then grounds the certainty of hope in the oath God swore to Abraham.

• Zechariah (son of Jeberechiah)People

  Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah, was one of the two "faithful witnesses," together with Uriah the priest, whom Isaiah took when, at God's command, he wrote the name "Maher-shalal-hash-baz" on a tablet (Isaiah 8:2).

• OrebPeople

  Oreb was one of the two princes (leaders) of Midian who were captured and killed by the men of Ephraim during the judge Gideon's war against Midian. He appears in Judges 7 and 8 and is mentioned again in the Psalms and Isaiah as an example of God's overthrow of His enemies.

• TobiasPeople

  Tobias is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.

• JeremiahBible

  Jeremiah is one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophecies and life of the prophet Jeremiah, who ministered during the period when the Kingdom of Judah fell.

• 1 PeterBible

  First Peter is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament, a five-chapter letter that urges Christians scattered amid persecution and suffering to hold fast to hope and to live holy lives.

• JohnPeople

  John was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, the son of Zebedee and the brother of James. He has traditionally been regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, the Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation.

• 2 PeterBible

  Second Peter is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament, a three-chapter letter written in the name of the apostle Peter. It warns against false teachers and urges believers to live godly lives as they await the return of Christ.

• 1 JohnBible

  First John is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament and consists of five chapters. With its declarations that "God is light" and "God is love," it sets out criteria for discerning genuine faith.

• ThomasPeople

  Thomas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He declared that he would not believe until he had seen the risen Jesus for himself, and he then confessed, "My Lord and my God."

• Ecclesiastes 12:1Bible Verses

  An exhortation to remember one's Creator in the days of youth, before the evil days come. It is one of the final exhortations of Ecclesiastes and one of the verses most widely used as a motto for youth ministry.