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• Jeremiah 32Bible

  Jeremiah 32 tells how Jeremiah, imprisoned while the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem, bought a field in his hometown of Anathoth. Through this symbolic act, his prayer, and God's answer, the chapter promises restoration after judgment and an everlasting covenant.

• Jeremiah 42Bible

  Jeremiah 42 is the chapter in which the people left in Judah after the assassination of Gedaliah ask Jeremiah to seek the LORD's direction for them. God promises to protect them if they remain in the land of Judah, and He warns that if they go to Egypt, they will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

• Ezekiel 9Bible

  Ezekiel 9 describes a scene of judgment on Jerusalem that Ezekiel saw in a vision. A mark is set on the foreheads of those who sigh and cry over the city's abominations, the rest are ordered to be struck down, and the judgment begins at the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 18Bible

  Leviticus 18 commands the people of Israel not to follow the customs of Egypt and Canaan. It contains laws prohibiting sexual relations with close relatives, adultery, offering children to Molech, same-sex intercourse, and bestiality.

• Isaiah 25Bible

  Isaiah 25 contains a song of praise to the LORD who saves and a prophecy promising a feast that he will prepare for all peoples on Mount Zion, together with the destruction of death. The chapter closes with the downfall of proud Moab.

• Numbers 25Bible

  Numbers 25 records how Israel, while at Shittim, committed whoredom with the women of Moab and worshiped Baal-peor, bringing a plague upon the people. Phinehas stopped the plague and received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, and God commanded Israel to strike Midian.

• Leviticus 3Bible

  Leviticus 3 sets out the procedure for the peace offering, presented from the herd or the flock (cattle, sheep, or goats). It declares that all the fat belongs to the LORD and closes with a perpetual statute forbidding the eating of fat and blood.

• Leviticus 5Bible

  Leviticus 5 sets out the sin offering for faults recognized after the fact, such as withholding testimony, touching something unclean, or swearing a rash oath, along with provisions that scale the offering to a person's means. It then establishes the guilt offering for trespasses against the holy things and for sins committed in ignorance.

• Ezekiel 5Bible

  In this chapter Ezekiel performs a symbolic act, shaving his head and beard and dividing the hair into three parts, which God then interprets as the judgment that will fall on Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 58Bible

  Isaiah 58 rebukes merely outward fasting and declares that the fast God delights in is to set the oppressed free and to care for one's poor neighbors. The chapter closes with an exhortation to honor the Sabbath.

• Job 36Bible

  Job 36 opens Elihu's final speech (chapters 36–37). Elihu declares that God instructs people through suffering and that His greatness is beyond human understanding, and he extols God's power by pointing to natural phenomena such as rain and lightning.

• Romans 9Bible

  Romans 9 is the chapter in which Paul pours out his grief over his fellow Israelites and, drawing on Old Testament quotations, explains God's promise and election, His mercy and sovereignty, and the righteousness that comes by faith.

• 2 Corinthians 12Bible

  Second Corinthians 12 recounts Paul's experience of being caught up to the third heaven and his "thorn in the flesh," records his confession that when he is weak he is strong, and announces his planned third visit to the church at Corinth.

• Job 19Bible

  Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.

• Job 13:15Bible Verses

  In this verse Job declares that, even at the risk of death, he will defend his ways before God. Because of a variant reading in the Hebrew text, translations divide between "I have no hope" and "I will trust in him," and the verse is frequently discussed.

• Epistle to PhilemonBible

  The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament. In this short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses, the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.

• Job 9Bible

  Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.

• Deuteronomy 32Bible

  Deuteronomy 32 records the song, known as the "Song of Moses," that Moses delivered before the assembly of Israel. God then tells Moses to climb Mount Nebo and view Canaan, but declares that he will not enter the land and will die there.

• Philippians 2:5-8Bible Verses

  A passage stating that Christ, though equal with God, "made himself of no reputation" (literally, "emptied himself"), took upon him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death on the cross. It is the New Testament's most concentrated presentation of Christ's humiliation and became the starting point of the kenosis debate.

• Proverbs 23:29–35Bible Verses

  A passage in Proverbs that uses six questions and vivid description to warn of the calamities that befall those given to drink. In Korean Protestant churches it is frequently cited as grounds for abstinence from alcohol, and interpreters debate whether it teaches abstinence or moderation.