Isaiah 55:8-11 (CJB) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yehovah. “As high as the sky is above the earth are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For just as rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return […]
Jeremiah 29:11-14 (CJB) For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Yehovah,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future. When you call to me and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek […]
Romans 8:31-35 (CJB) What, then, are we to say to these things? If Yehovah God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare even his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all — is it possible that, having given us his Son, he would not give […]
1 Corinthians 13:3-7 (CJB) I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful, not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love […]
Psalm 59:15-18 (CJB) They return at nightfall, snarling like dogs as they go around the city. They roam about, looking for food, prowling all night if they don’t get their fill. But as for me, I will sing of your strength; in the morning I will sing aloud of your grace. For you are my […]
Ephesians 6:11-18 (CJB) Use all the armor and weaponry that Yehovah God provides, so that you will be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary. For we are not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the […]
James 1:5-8 (CJB) Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach; and it will be given to him. But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind. Indeed […]
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 (CJB) So from now on, we do not look at anyone from a worldly viewpoint. Even if we once regarded the Messiah from a worldly viewpoint, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has […]
Isaiah 1:15-18 (CJB) “When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; no matter how much you pray, I won’t be listening; because your hands are covered with blood. “Wash yourselves clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing evil, learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the […]
John 16:1-7 (CJB) “I have told you these things so that you won’t be caught by surprise. They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving Yehovah God! They will do these things because they have understood neither the Father nor […]