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Isaiah 26
[Bible]Isaiah 26 opens with a song to be sung "in that day" in the land of Judah. It speaks of the peace of those who trust in the Lord, judgment on the proud, prayer in distress, and the promise that the dead will live again.
1 John 4:18
[Bible Verses]1 John 4:18 is a verse teaching that when God's love is made perfect in the believer, the fear of judgment is removed. It is frequently cited in discussions of the assurance of salvation and in connection with the Wesleyan doctrine of "perfect love."
Mark 10:2-12
[Bible Verses]The passage in which the Pharisees ask Jesus whether divorce is lawful, and Jesus answers by appealing to the order of creation: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." It is among the texts most frequently cited in discussions of marriage, divorce, and remarriage, and interpreters differ over whether it allows any exceptions.
Revelation 10
[Bible]Revelation 10 is the chapter set between the sixth and seventh trumpets. A mighty angel comes down holding an open little book, and John, after taking and eating the book, is commanded to prophesy again.
Isaiah 25:8
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 25:8 is a prophecy within Isaiah 24–27 promising that God will destroy death forever and wipe away the tears from all faces. Taken up by Paul and by the Book of Revelation, the verse is read as a leading Old Testament text for the hope of the resurrection and of the last things.
Amos 4
[Bible]Amos 4 is a prophecy that rebukes the luxury-loving leaders of northern Israel and their hollow worship, and warns a people who did not return to God despite repeated calamities to "prepare to meet thy God."
Deuteronomy 12
[Bible]Deuteronomy 12 is the first chapter of the Deuteronomic Code. It commands the destruction of Canaanite places of worship, requires that sacrifices and tithes be offered only at the one place God chooses, and prohibits eating blood.
Jeremiah 13
[Bible]In this chapter Jeremiah hides a linen girdle by the Euphrates and later recovers it ruined, a symbolic act showing that Judah's pride will be marred. Together with the parable of the wine bottles, the chapter warns that the royal house and Jerusalem will be carried into captivity.
Ezekiel 32
[Bible]Ezekiel 32 is the final chapter of the oracles against the nations in the Book of Ezekiel. It contains two laments over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and depicts Pharaoh descending to Sheol to lie with the nations that perished before him.
Amos 6
[Bible]Amos 6 pronounces woe on the leaders in Zion and Samaria who live at ease and are not grieved by the nation's ruin. It announces that they will be the first to go into captivity and that Israel will be trampled by a foreign nation.
Isaiah 27
[Bible]Isaiah 27 is a prophecy that "in that day" the LORD will punish Leviathan, guard Israel as his vineyard, and summon his scattered people with a great trumpet to worship in Jerusalem.
Qumran Community
[History]The Qumran community was a Jewish sectarian group that lived at Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea, from about the second century BC to the middle of the first century AD. Scholars commonly associate it with the Essenes. It is generally regarded as the community to which the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the surrounding caves belonged.
Coats of Skins
[Bible]The coats of skins are the garments that God made to clothe Adam and Eve after they ate the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:21). They stand in contrast to the aprons of fig leaves and have been interpreted both as a sign of God's care and as a foreshadowing of atonement.
Matthew 7:7
[Bible Verses]Matthew 7:7, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you," is a promise concerning prayer. The verse is cherished as an encouragement to persistent prayer, though reading it as a promise that one will receive whatever one asks for has been debated.
John 3:36
[Bible Verses]John 3:36 states that whoever believes in the Son (Jesus) has eternal life now, while the wrath of God remains on whoever does not obey the Son. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and obedience and of eternal life as a present reality.
Deuteronomy 5
[Bible]Deuteronomy 5 is the chapter in which Moses recalls for Israel the covenant made at Mount Horeb, restates the Ten Commandments, and recounts how the people asked Moses to serve as their mediator.
Ecclesiastes 4
[Bible]Ecclesiastes 4 records the Preacher's reflections on the oppression and envy he has seen under the sun, on solitary toil, and on the fleeting nature of power, and teaches that two are better than one.
Isaiah 23
[Bible]Isaiah 23 is an oracle announcing the fall of Tyre and Sidon, the Mediterranean trading cities. It closes by declaring that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years and then rise again, and that its profits will be set apart for the LORD.
Isaiah 25
[Bible]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.
Jeremiah 51
[Bible]Jeremiah 51 continues the prophecy of chapter 50 announcing the fall of Babylon. At the close of the chapter, Jeremiah gives Seraiah a book containing these words and instructs him to read it in Babylon and then cast it into the Euphrates River.