Luke 18:9-14Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood apart by himself and...
Jeremiah 31: 33The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Psalm 119: 98, 103-104Your commandment is with me all the time and...
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7I wrote a letter to the priests, the prophets, the leaders of the people, and to all the others whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken away as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylonia.“The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those people whom he...
Lamentations 1:1-4How lonely lies Jerusalem, once so full of people!Once honored by the world, she is now like a widow;The noblest of cities has fallen into slavery.All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks.Of all her former friends, not one is left to...
1 Tim 6:6-19 or 15Well, religion does make us very rich, if we are satisfied with what we have. What did we bring into the world? Nothing! What can we take out of the world? Nothing! So then, if we have food and clothes, that should be enough for us. But those who...
1 Timothy 2:1-7First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people; for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence toward God and with proper...