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• Romans 2Bible

  Romans 2 declares that those who judge others, as well as Jews who possess the law, cannot escape God's righteous judgment, and it teaches that the true Jew and true circumcision are matters of the heart.

• Galatians 6Bible

  Galatians 6 is the final chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians. It urges believers to restore an erring brother gently and to bear one another's burdens, teaches that a person reaps what he sows, gives a final warning against those who compel circumcision, and closes with Paul's words written in his own hand.

• Galatians 1Bible

  Galatians 1 is the first chapter of Paul's letter to the churches of Galatia. Immediately after the greeting, Paul rebukes believers who have turned to "another gospel." He then defends his apostleship and his gospel as coming not from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ, recounting his activities after his conversion.

• Hebrews 4Bible

  Hebrews 4 uses the disobedience of the wilderness generation as a warning and urges readers to strive to enter God's rest. It also presents the living word of God and Jesus, the great High Priest who understands our weaknesses.

• Ephesians 6Bible

  Ephesians 6 is the final chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. It gives exhortations to children and parents and to servants and masters, calls believers to put on the whole armor of God and to pray, and closes with news that Tychicus is being sent and with a benediction.

• Hebrews 2Bible

  Hebrews 2 opens with a warning not to neglect so great a salvation. It then explains that Jesus, made for a little while lower than the angels, took on flesh and blood and suffered, thereby becoming the Savior of his brethren and a merciful and faithful high priest.

• Revelation 7Bible

  Revelation 7 stands between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals. It contains two scenes: the sealing of God's servants on their foreheads (the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel), and a great multitude clothed in white, which no one can number, praising God before the throne.

• Revelation 11Bible

  Revelation 11 records the measuring of the temple; the two witnesses who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed, and rise again; the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and the opening of the temple in heaven.

• Genesis 18Bible

  Genesis 18 recounts Abraham's hospitality to three visitors at Mamre, where Sarah again hears the promise that she will bear a son. The chapter continues with Abraham interceding with the LORD before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, asking whether the cities would be spared for fifty righteous people, and then for fewer, down to ten.

• Genesis 38Bible

  Genesis 38 interrupts the Joseph narrative with the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. It recounts the conflict over continuing a family line and records the birth of the twins Perez and Zerah.

• Exodus 16Bible

  Exodus 16 recounts how God gave quail in the evening and manna in the morning to the Israelites after they complained in the Wilderness of Sin that they had nothing to eat. By having the people gather a double portion on the sixth day and rest on the seventh, God teaches them the Sabbath.

• Numbers 18Bible

  Numbers 18 distinguishes the duties of the priests from those of the Levites. It establishes the portion the priests are to receive, the tithe given to the Levites, and the "tithe of the tithe" that the Levites in turn offer.

• Deuteronomy 10Bible

  Deuteronomy 10 recounts Moses' receiving of the second tablets of stone and the ark, and exhorts Israel to fear and love the LORD, to circumcise their hearts, and to love the stranger.

• Deuteronomy 18Bible

  Deuteronomy 18 sets out the portion due to the Levitical priests, forbids the divination and necromancy (calling up the spirits of the dead) practiced by the nations of Canaan, and records God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses, together with the criteria for distinguishing true prophets from false ones.

• Joshua 8Bible

  Joshua 8 recounts how, after the Achan incident, Israel captures the city of Ai by means of an ambush, and how Joshua then builds an altar on Mount Ebal and reads the law before the whole congregation.

• Joshua 14Bible

  Joshua 14 opens the distribution of the land west of the Jordan. It sets out the principle by which Eleazar and Joshua divide the land by lot among the nine and a half tribes. It also records how Caleb, at eighty-five, claims the hill country promised to him and receives Hebron as his inheritance.

• Joshua 21Bible

  Joshua 21 records how the Levites received by lot forty-eight cities, together with their surrounding pasturelands, in which to dwell among the inheritances of the other tribes. The chapter closes by summarizing that God had fulfilled all His promises of land and rest.

• Judges 10Bible

  Judges 10 gives brief accounts of the judges Tola and Jair, then describes how Israel again served idols, was oppressed by the Philistines and the Ammonites, and repented. The chapter provides the background for the story of Jephthah.

• 1 Corinthians 15:3–4Bible Verses

  A summary of the gospel stating that Christ died for our sins "according to the scriptures," was buried, and rose again the third day. The passage is regarded as preserving one of the earliest forms of Christian confession in the New Testament and is a central basis of faith in the resurrection.

• Proverbs 9:10Bible Verses

  Proverbs 9:10 declares that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and that the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. As a key verse that brings Proverbs 1–9 to a close, it is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and knowledge.