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• Song of Songs 6Bible

  Song of Songs 6 contains a question about where the departed beloved has gone, the woman's declaration of their mutual belonging, the man's song praising the woman as his one and only love, and a passage that calls to the "Shulamite."

• Judges 5Bible

  Judges 5 is a poem celebrating the victory of Deborah and Barak over Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army. It contrasts the tribes that joined the battle with those that stayed away, praises Jael, and closes by noting that the land had rest for forty years.

• Daniel 2Bible

  Daniel 2 is the chapter in which Daniel receives from God, reveals, and interprets King Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great image. It centers on the vision of an image made of gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay that is broken in pieces by a stone cut out without hands, together with the interpretation of that vision.

• Acts 10Bible

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• Proverbs 30Bible

  Proverbs 30 contains the words of Agur the son of Jakeh. It consists of questions about the Creator, a declaration of the purity of God's word, a prayer asking for neither poverty nor riches, and observational sayings grouped in the pattern of "three things, yea, four."

• Acts 18Bible

  In Acts 18, Paul meets Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth, stays there a year and six months teaching, returns to Antioch, and then sets out again. The chapter closes with Apollos, who has come to Ephesus, learning the way of God more perfectly from Priscilla and Aquila.

• Acts 21Bible

  Acts 21 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey, goes up to Jerusalem despite warnings, meets with James and the elders, and is arrested by a Roman chief captain after a riot breaks out in the temple.

• Song of Songs 4Bible

  Song of Songs 4 is a love song in which the bridegroom praises the bride's eyes, hair, lips, neck, and other features by comparing them to scenes from nature and to spices, and likens her to a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. In the final verse the bride invites her beloved into her garden.

• Deuteronomy 33Bible

  Deuteronomy 33 is a poem in which Moses blesses the tribes of Israel one by one before his death. It opens with the appearing of the LORD, moves through blessings on the individual tribes, and closes with praise to the God who saved Israel.

• Revelation 18Bible

  Revelation 18 opens with an angel's proclamation that the great city Babylon has fallen. Through the laments of the kings of the earth, the merchants, and the seafarers, and through the symbolic act of casting a millstone into the sea, the chapter depicts Babylon's complete destruction.

• Ezekiel 19Bible

  Ezekiel 19 is a lament, or funeral song, composed for the kings of Judah, whom it calls "the princes of Israel." Through two images, a lioness with her cubs and a vine planted by the waters, it mourns the downfall of the royal house.

• Job 25Bible

  Job 25 contains the third and final speech of Job's friend Bildad. It exalts God's power and majesty and asserts that no human being can be righteous or pure before God. At six verses, it is the shortest speech in the dialogues of the Book of Job.

• ObadiahBible

  Obadiah is one of the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and, with a single chapter of twenty-one verses, the shortest book in the Old Testament. It prophesies God's judgment on Edom and the restoration of Zion.

• Epistle of JudeBible

  The Epistle of Jude is the twenty-sixth book of the New Testament. It is a brief, single-chapter letter that warns against false teachers and urges believers to keep the faith, and it is classified among the General (Catholic) Epistles.

• Genesis 4Bible

  Genesis 4 recounts the offerings of Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve; the first murder; Cain's punishment and descendants; and the birth of Seth. The chapter contains 26 verses.

• Job 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Job introduces Job, a righteous man of the land of Uz. After Satan's challenge, Job loses all his possessions and children in a single day, yet he blesses the LORD and does not sin.

• Mark 2Bible

  The second chapter of the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus forgives and heals a paralytic in Capernaum, calls Levi the tax collector, and disputes with the scribes and Pharisees over fasting and the Sabbath.

• Job 2:10Bible Verses

  In this verse Job answers his wife, who has urged him in his suffering to curse God, with the words "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" The verse is often cited in discussions of faith amid suffering. Interpreters debate how Job's wife should be assessed and what the phrase "with his lips" means.

• Romans 10:4Bible Verses

  A verse in which Paul calls Christ "the end of the law." It is frequently discussed because one's understanding of the relationship between law and gospel depends on whether the Greek word telos is read as "end" or as "goal."

• Romans 9:18–23Bible Verses

  In this passage Paul uses the analogy of the potter and the vessels to explain God's sovereignty in both showing mercy and hardening. It is one of the texts most frequently cited in the debate over predestination and free will.