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• Job 13Bible

  Job 13 is the middle portion of Job's reply to Zophar (chapters 12–14). Job rebukes his friends as "physicians of no value" and resolves to lay his case directly before God and seek an answer from Him.

• Daniel 6Bible

  Daniel 6 recounts how Daniel, who defied King Darius's decree by continuing to pray three times a day, was cast into the lions' den and yet emerged unharmed. The chapter ends with Darius issuing a decree that honors the God of Daniel.

• Zechariah 9Bible

  Zechariah 9 opens the second half of the Book of Zechariah (chapters 9–14). It proclaims judgment on the surrounding nations, announces a humble king who comes riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey, and promises the release and restoration of the prisoners.

• Acts 20Bible

  Acts 20 is the chapter in which Paul, having completed his third missionary journey and setting out for Jerusalem, restores to life the young man Eutychus, who had fallen to his death at Troas, and at Miletus delivers a farewell address to the elders of the church at Ephesus.

• Ruth 3Bible

  Ruth 3 is the chapter in which Ruth, following Naomi's instructions, goes to the threshing floor at night and asks Boaz to take up the responsibility of a kinsman-redeemer, and Boaz promises with an oath to do so.

• Job 2Bible

  Job 2 is the chapter in which Job, struck with sore boils over his entire body in a second trial, still does not sin with his lips, and in which his three friends come and sit with him in silence for seven days.

• Job 14Bible

  Job 14 is the chapter in which Job laments to God the brevity and trouble of human life. Contrasting a tree, which sprouts again after it is cut down, with a human being, who dies and does not rise again, he raises the question of hope beyond death.

• Job 12Bible

  Job 12 begins Job's reply to Zophar's first speech. Job mocks his friends' wisdom and offers an extended hymn to the sovereignty of God, who both establishes and overthrows the world.

• Proverbs 28Bible

  Proverbs 28 belongs to the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah. Its 28 verses are brief sayings that contrast the righteous and the wicked, the poor and the rich, and rulers and the law.

• Daniel 9Bible

  Daniel 9 is the chapter in which Daniel reads Jeremiah's prophecy of seventy years, fasts, and offers a prayer confessing the sins of his people. He then receives from Gabriel the revelation of the "seventy weeks."

• Mark 10Bible

  Mark 10 is the chapter in which Jesus, on the road up to Jerusalem, teaches about divorce, little children, wealth and eternal life, and service; foretells his passion for the third time; and restores the sight of Bartimaeus at Jericho.

• John 14Bible

  John 14 is the opening portion of the farewell discourse that Jesus delivered to his disciples at the Last Supper. It contains the promise of a place in the Father's house, the declaration that he is "the way, the truth, and the life," the promise of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, and the gift of Christ's peace.

• James 1Bible

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• Judges 13Bible

  Judges 13 recounts how, during forty years of Philistine oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared to the wife of Manoah of the tribe of Dan to announce the birth of a Nazirite son, and how Samson was born.

• Proverbs 9Bible

  Proverbs 9 is the final chapter of the introductory section of Proverbs (chapters 1–9). In it, personified Wisdom and the foolish woman each prepare a feast and call out to the simple, setting before them a choice between the way of life and the way of death.

• Ezekiel 11Bible

  Ezekiel 11 is the final chapter of the vision of the Jerusalem temple (chapters 8–11). It recounts the judgment on the leaders who remained in Jerusalem, the promise of a new heart to the exiles, and the departure of the glory of God from the city.

• Ezekiel 23Bible

  Ezekiel 23 is a prophetic parable that likens Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, and Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, to two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, who played the harlot. Through this image it indicts their alliances with foreign nations and their idolatry, and it pronounces judgment upon them.

• Ezekiel 25Bible

  Ezekiel 25 is the first chapter of the oracles against the foreign nations (chapters 25–32). It pronounces judgment on Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia for rejoicing over Judah's downfall or for taking vengeance on Judah.

• Amos 7Bible

  Amos 7 contains three of Amos's visions (locusts, fire, and a plumb line), along with the account of Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, who tries to silence Amos's prophecy and in turn receives a word of judgment.

• Romans 12:9–10Bible Verses

  Paul's exhortation to love without hypocrisy, to hate evil and hold fast to what is good, and to show brotherly affection and mutual honor among believers. Because these verses open the entire series of exhortations on love in Romans 12:9–21, they are frequently cited in discussions of the ethics of the church community.