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Psalm 71
[Bible]Psalm 71 is an individual lament without a superscription. The psalmist, who has trusted God from youth, pleads not to be cast off in old age and vows to declare God's righteousness and salvation to generations to come.
Psalm 70
[Bible]Psalm 70 is a brief five-verse lament in which a petitioner pursued by enemies cries out to God for swift deliverance. Its content is nearly identical to Psalm 40:13–17.
The Bondage of the Will
[Doctrine & Theology]The Bondage of the Will is a 1525 book by Martin Luther refuting Erasmus's On Free Will, and the name also refers to the position it argues. It holds that the will of fallen humanity is bound by sin and cannot choose salvation of itself, and that salvation depends entirely on the grace of God.
Song of Songs 7
[Bible]Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.
Letter of Jeremiah
[Bible]The Letter of Jeremiah is a short work presented as a letter from Jeremiah to the Judean captives being carried off to Babylon, warning them against idolatry. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Bible, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
[Bible Verses]Ecclesiastes 12:8 concludes the main body of the book. It repeats the opening declaration of Ecclesiastes 1:2, "Vanity of vanities," to sum up the transience of life under the sun. The verse is often cited as the thematic statement of the whole book, and interpreters understand "vanity" in several ways.
John 20:31
[Bible Verses]A verse in which the author of the Gospel of John states the purpose of the book: that readers might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they might have life through his name. It is frequently cited as a key to reading the Gospel of John as a whole.
Ecclesiastes 12:13–14
[Bible Verses]The closing words of Ecclesiastes, which declare that to fear God and keep His commandments is the whole duty of man and that God will bring every work into judgment. The passage is frequently cited as a condensed statement of the book's conclusion, and its relationship to the main body of the book is also debated.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
[People]Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024) was a Peruvian Catholic priest and theologian whose book A Theology of Liberation (1971) earned him the title "father of liberation theology."
John 21
[Bible]John 21 is the final chapter of the Gospel of John. The risen Jesus appears to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, gives them a large catch of fish, and eats breakfast with them. He then asks Peter three times whether he loves him and entrusts his sheep to him. The chapter closes with the book's concluding words.
Daniel 7:1-8
[Bible Verses]In this passage Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea and a little horn springing up among ten horns. Because interpreters disagree about which kingdoms the four beasts represent and who the little horn is, the passage is frequently cited in discussions of eschatology.
Deuteronomy 19:15
[Bible Verses]Deuteronomy 19:15 is an Old Testament legal provision directing that guilt not be established on the testimony of a single person but confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. The New Testament cites it several times, and it is frequently invoked in discussions of church discipline and of procedures for handling accusations.
Ecclesiastes 12
[Bible]The final chapter of Ecclesiastes urges readers to remember their Creator in the days of youth, before old age and death arrive. It closes the book with the conclusion that fearing God and keeping His commandments is the whole duty of man.
John 20
[Bible]John 20 opens with Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb and recounts the appearances of the risen Jesus to Mary, to the disciples, and to Thomas. The chapter closes with a statement of the book's purpose.
Theophilus
[People]Theophilus is the person to whom the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles addresses each book at its opening. Both books are dedicated to him, and in the Gospel of Luke he is called "most excellent Theophilus."
Francis Collins
[People]Francis Collins (born 1950) is an American geneticist and physician. He led the Human Genome Project and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He promoted theistic evolution through his book *The Language of God* and through the BioLogos Foundation, which he founded.
Jeremiah 16
[Bible]Jeremiah 16 is the chapter in which God forbids Jeremiah to marry or to enter houses of mourning and feasting, making his life a sign of the judgment coming on Judah. The chapter also promises both a day of return from exile and a day when the nations will turn to the LORD.
Ezekiel 24
[Bible]Ezekiel 24 records the word that came to Ezekiel on the day the king of Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem. Through the parable of the rusted pot and the sign of the prophet's refusal to mourn openly at his wife's death, it announces the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
2 Samuel 12
[Bible]In this chapter the prophet Nathan exposes David's sin through a parable, and David confesses. The first child Bathsheba bore to David dies, Solomon is born, and David captures Rabbah, the royal city of the Ammonites.
1 Chronicles 16
[Bible]1 Chronicles 16 records the day David placed the ark of the covenant in the tent he had pitched for it, offered sacrifices, and blessed the people. The chapter also contains the Levites' song of thanksgiving and the assignment of worship personnel to two sites, Jerusalem and Gibeon.