Read 1 John 3:16–17 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 1 John 3:16 In these days of multiplied social agencies, it is easy for us Christians to forget our...
Read Galatians 5:1–15 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 It is Christ who has made us free from the bondage of the law. He freed us from the...
Read Hebrews 5:9–10 Once made perfect, [Jesus] became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. Hebrews 5:9 When Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a young preacher in London, his successful ministry aroused the envy of some of the clergy, and they attacked him with various kinds of slander...
Read Ecclesiastes 9:1–4 Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! Ecclesiastes 9:4 Death is not an accident—it is an appointment (Heb. 9:27 KJV), a destiny that nobody but God can cancel or change. Life and death are in the...
Read 1 Peter 4:12–16 Rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. 1 Peter 4:13 It is an honor and a privilege to suffer with Christ and be treated by the world the way it treated Him. “The...
Read Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Isaiah 40:1 “Isaiah is great for two reasons,” wrote William Sanford LaSor in his fascinating book Great Personalities of the Old Testament: “He lived in momentous days, in critical days of international upheaval, and he wrote what many consider to...
Read Hebrews 8:13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. Hebrews 8:13 It is one thing to say, “We will!” and quite another to do it. However, the new covenant does not depend on people’s faithfulness...
Read 1 Peter 3:8–12 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 1 Peter 3:9 As Christians, we can live on one of three levels. We can return evil for good, which...
Read Romans 8:18–39 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 As believers we never need faint in times of suffering because we know that God is at work in the world,...
Read Job 2—3 THREE FRIENDS When Job’s three friends … heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. Job 2:11 All three of Job’s friends were old (Job...