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• Ezekiel 45Bible

  Ezekiel 45, part of the vision of the new temple, sets out the allotment of a holy district in the land, the prince's duty to practice justice and maintain honest weights and measures, the people's offerings and the prince's responsibility for the sacrifices, and the purification of the sanctuary and the festival offerings.

• Hosea 5Bible

  Hosea 5 summons the priests, the house of Israel, and the house of the king and pronounces judgment on northern Israel (Ephraim) and southern Judah. It rebukes their reliance on Assyria and closes with God's declaration that He will wait until the people acknowledge their offense and seek Him.

• Matthew 25Bible

  Matthew 25 concludes Jesus' teaching on the end times. It presents, in succession, the parable of the ten virgins, the parable of the talents, and the judgment scene in which the Son of Man separates all nations as sheep from goats.

• Romans 4Bible

  Romans 4 argues that Abraham was justified not by works or by circumcision but by believing God, and that the way of being made righteous by faith is therefore open to both the circumcised and the uncircumcised.

• 1 Corinthians 8Bible

  1 Corinthians 8 addresses the question of eating food offered to idols. Paul places love above knowledge and teaches that one's freedom must not cause a brother who is weak in faith to stumble.

• Revelation 13Bible

  Revelation 13 contains the vision of two beasts that receive authority from the dragon: the beast that rises out of the sea and the beast that comes up out of the earth. The chapter introduces the mark of the beast and the number 666.

• Genesis 32Bible

  Genesis 32 recounts how Jacob, returning to his homeland and fearful of his coming meeting with his brother Esau, prays and sends gifts ahead, then wrestles through the night at the ford of the Jabbok and receives the new name "Israel."

• Genesis 33Bible

  Genesis 33 tells how Jacob meets his brother Esau, who has come with four hundred men. The two embrace and are reconciled. Jacob then travels by way of Succoth to Shechem in the land of Canaan, where he buys a field and builds an altar.

• Deuteronomy 2Bible

  Deuteronomy 2 is part of Moses' retrospective account of the wilderness journey. It recounts how Israel passed by the lands of Edom, Moab, and Ammon without conflict, then defeated Sihon king of Heshbon and took his land.

• Joshua 4Bible

  Joshua 4 records how, after Israel crossed the Jordan River, twelve men, one chosen from each tribe, carried twelve stones from the middle of the river and set them up at Gilgal as a memorial.

• 1 Samuel 7Bible

  1 Samuel 7 recounts how, while the ark of the covenant remains at Kiriath-jearim, Samuel gathers Israel at Mizpah and leads the people in repentance, and how, after the Philistines are defeated, he sets up the Ebenezer stone. The chapter closes with a summary of Samuel's lifelong service as judge over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 12Bible

  First Samuel 12 records Samuel's farewell address before all Israel after Saul became king. Samuel has his integrity publicly affirmed, reviews Israel's history, reminds the people of their sin in asking for a king, and urges king and people alike to serve the LORD.

• 1 Kings 17Bible

  1 Kings 17 is the chapter in which Elijah proclaims a drought to Ahab, is sustained at the brook Cherith by food brought by ravens, and then stays in the house of the widow of Zarephath, where the meal and oil do not run out and her dead son is restored to life.

• Nehemiah 6Bible

  Nehemiah 6 recounts how Nehemiah's enemies try to intimidate him with proposals for a meeting, a slanderous letter, and false prophecy, yet the wall of Jerusalem is completed in fifty-two days.

• Jeremiah 23Bible

  Jeremiah 23 rebukes the shepherds of Judah who scattered the people, promises a "righteous Branch" to be raised up from David, and then delivers an extended indictment of the false prophets whom God did not send.

• Ezekiel 10Bible

  Ezekiel 10 is part of Ezekiel's vision of the Jerusalem temple. It describes the cherubim and the wheels once more and depicts the glory of the LORD departing from the threshold of the temple and moving to the east gate.

• 1 Corinthians 7Bible

  1 Corinthians 7 is the chapter in which Paul answers questions about marriage, celibacy, and divorce that the Corinthian believers had raised in a letter to him. It contains his exhortation to remain in the condition in which one was called, as well as his opinion recommending celibacy in view of the impending distress.

• Revelation 4Bible

  Revelation 4 records John's vision, seen through a door opened in heaven, of the throne of God and the worship offered by the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures around it.

• Isaiah 59:20–21Bible Verses

  These verses conclude Isaiah 59, a chapter that indicts Israel for its sins. They promise that a Redeemer will come to those who turn from transgression, and they announce a covenant in which God's Spirit and words will not depart from them through the generations. The passage is frequently discussed because Paul quotes it in Romans 11 when he speaks of the salvation of "all Israel."

• 1 Corinthians 13:4–7Bible Verses

  First Corinthians 13:4–7 is a passage that begins "Charity suffereth long, and is kind" and uses fifteen verbs to describe what love does and does not do. It is the passage most frequently read at weddings, yet commentators often point out that it was originally addressed to a church quarreling over spiritual gifts.