Read 1 Peter 5:12–14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ. 1 Peter 5:14 Peter closed this epistle with a benediction of peace. He opened the letter with a greeting of peace (1 Peter 1:1–2), so the entire epistle points...
Read Job 16—17 If the only home I hope for is the grave … where then is my hope? Job 17:13, 15 People treated Job as if he were the scum of the earth (v. 6). His body was only the shadow of what it had been (v. 7), and...
Read Isaiah 37 The angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eightyfive thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Isaiah 37:36 Sennacherib boasted of his military might and his great conquests. But the king of Assyria forgot that he was only God’s tool for accomplishing...
Read Isaiah 60—62 I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them. Isaiah 61:8 Every seven years, the Jews were to observe a “sabbatical year” and allow the land to rest. After seven sabbaticals, they...
Read Ecclesiastes 3:9–22 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil— this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3:13 When the well-known British Methodist preacher William Sangster learned that he had progressive muscular atrophy and could not get well, he made four resolutions and kept...
Read 1 Corinthians 2:6–10 “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”—but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:9–10 Salvation involves all three persons in the Godhead. No one can be saved...
Read 2 Corinthians 12:7–8 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 2 Corinthians 12:7 When God permits suffering to come into people’s lives, there are several ways they can...
Read 1 Corinthians 15:29–58 Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 The heavenly kingdom is not made for the kind of bodies we now have: bodies of flesh and blood. So when Jesus returns, the bodies of living believers will...
Read Ecclesiastes 5:1–7 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Solomon had visited the courtroom, the marketplace, the highway, and the palace. Now he...
Read 2 Corinthians 1:8–24 In our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 2 Corinthians 1:9 In Greek language, there are ten basic words for suffering, and Paul used five of them in...