Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
