1-3 On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt, the whole company of Israel moved on from Elim to the Wilderness...

Friend, don’t go along with evil. Model the good. The person who does good does God’s work. The person who does evil falsifies God,...

Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals;...

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. 12And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for...

If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of...

I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at...

There were a lot of people, especially those from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, who did not eat the Passover meal because...

When you win, we plan to raise the roof and lead the parade with our banners. May all your wishes come true! Psalm 20: 5 The...

Out of respect for Christ, be courteously reverent to one another. Ephesians 5:21 The Message Respect is something we all appreciate...

Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry....

Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah and Rachel and the two maidservants....

In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is,...

God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing...

It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about...

Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got...

7-8 God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their...

18 The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34: 18 NRSV As our nation honored our fallen...

31-33 So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you’re eating to God’s glory, after all, not to please...

53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. 54 When they got out of the boat, people at once...

Friends come and friends go, but a true friend sticks by you like family. Proverbs 18: 24 The Message Friendship is important...