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• Malachi 4Bible

  Malachi 4 is the final chapter of the Book of Malachi. It describes the day of the LORD, which will burn up the wicked and heal those who fear Him, urges the people to remember the law of Moses, and promises that Elijah will be sent before that day.

• Ecclesiastes 5Bible

  Ecclesiastes 5 opens with counsel to guard one's words in the house of God and to keep one's vows, goes on to speak of the vanity of loving wealth, and closes with the conclusion that enjoying the portion God gives is a gift.

• Job 32Bible

  Job 32 is the chapter in which the young Elihu first appears, after the debate between Job and his three friends has ended. Elihu is angry with both Job and the three friends, and he declares that, although he is young, he will speak.

• Mark 16Bible

  Mark 16 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Mark. It contains the account of the women hearing the news of Jesus' resurrection at the empty tomb (vv. 1–8) and the account of the risen Jesus appearing, sending out his disciples, and ascending into heaven (vv. 9–20). Because verses 9–20 are absent from some early manuscripts, they are enclosed in brackets in some editions of the Bible.

• Scripture MemorizationChristian Life

  Scripture memorization is the devotional practice of committing passages of the Bible to memory and taking them to heart. Its purpose goes beyond recall to using the memorized Word in meditation, prayer, and evangelism. In Korean Protestant churches it is widely practiced through memory verses in Sunday school, discipleship training, and the training programs of mission organizations.

• 2 CorinthiansBible

  Second Corinthians is the eighth book of the New Testament and the second letter Paul sent to the church at Corinth. It addresses Paul's defense of his apostleship, comfort in suffering, and the collection to aid the church in Jerusalem. Its verse 13:13 (13:14 in many English Bibles) is used as the benediction in worship.

• Letter of JeremiahBible

  The Letter of Jeremiah is a short work presented as a letter from Jeremiah to the Judean captives being carried off to Babylon, warning them against idolatry. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Bible, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• Song of Songs 7Bible

  Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.

• Isaiah 9Bible

  Isaiah 9 contains the promise that a great light will shine on Galilee in its darkness and that a child will be born to sit on the throne of David, followed by repeated pronouncements of judgment against proud Northern Israel.

• John 10Bible

  John 10 is the chapter in which Jesus presents himself as "the door of the sheep" and "the good shepherd." It also recounts how, at the Feast of Dedication in the Jerusalem temple, he declared, "I and my Father are one," and was nearly stoned.

• Revelation 22Bible

  Revelation 22 is the final chapter of the Book of Revelation and of the entire Bible. It opens with a vision of the river of the water of life and the tree of life in the New Jerusalem, and it closes the book with the promise "Surely I come quickly" and the response "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

• Genesis 1Bible

  The first chapter of Genesis, which recounts how God, by His word, made light, the sky, the land and seas, the heavenly bodies, and living creatures over six days, and created male and female in His own image.

• Numbers 16Bible

  Numbers 16 records how Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and 250 leaders rose up against the authority of Moses and Aaron and were swallowed by the earth and consumed by fire. It also tells how, on the following day, a plague broke out because of the congregation's murmuring and was stopped when Aaron made atonement with his censer.

• Luke 21Bible

  Luke 21 is the chapter of the Gospel of Luke that contains the account of the poor widow's offering of two mites and Jesus' eschatological discourse (an extended teaching on the end times), which opens with a prediction of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

• Joel 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Joel describes a locust plague and drought that have devastated the land of Judah, calls the people and priests to lament, fast, and gather in solemn assembly, and proclaims that "the day of the LORD" is at hand.

• Ruth 1Bible

  Ruth 1 tells how the family of Elimelech, having moved to Moab during a famine in the time of the judges, loses all its men, and how Naomi returns to Bethlehem with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth.

• Job 10Bible

  Job 10 is the chapter in which Job, while answering Bildad, turns to appeal directly to God. He asks why the God who formed him with His own hands now destroys him, and he pleads for even a brief respite before he dies.

• John 11Bible

  John 11 is the chapter of the Gospel of John that records Jesus raising Lazarus at Bethany after he had been dead four days, and how this event led the chief priests and Pharisees to plot Jesus' death.

• John 6Bible

  John 6 is the chapter in which Jesus feeds the five thousand on the far side of the Sea of Galilee, walks on the water, and then delivers the "Bread of Life" discourse in the synagogue at Capernaum. It closes with many disciples turning away and Peter making his confession of faith.

• Revelation 20:1–3Bible Verses

  John's vision in which an angel seizes the dragon, that is, Satan, and shuts him in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Because it is the first passage in the Bible to mention the "thousand years," it is the central text in debates over the interpretation of the millennium.