Scripture, Opened

Every challenge on this site leans on Scripture. This is where we open it — the text in context, the words that carry the weight, what the passage establishes, what it does not establish, and how the church has read it, including where the church has disagreed.

Two kinds of page live here, and they are labelled honestly. Full treatments carry all five sections. Short notes give context, the claim, and one clear limit — they are not dressed up as more than that.

Full treatments

100 passages cited most often on this site.

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 15:14 — if christ is not raised, proclamation and faith are empty
• 1 Corinthians 15:17 — if christ is not raised, faith is futile
• 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 — the earliest formula: died, buried, raised, according to scripture
• 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 — the resurrection appearances and the chain of witnesses
• 1 Corinthians 15:6 — paul appeals to five hundred living witnesses of the resurrection
• 1 Corinthians 1:23 — a crucified Messiah, offense to one expectation and nonsense to another
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 — a vice list undone by the past tense of verse eleven

1 John

• 1 John 2:2 — an advocate whose offering is not bounded by one community
• 1 John 4:8 — God is love, defined by the sending of the Son
• 1 John 5:14 — confidence in prayer rests on asking according to his will

1 Peter

• 1 Peter 2:24 — Christ bearing sins in his body, quoted from Isaiah's servant
• 1 Peter 3:15 — ready to give an account of hope, with gentleness
• 1 Peter 3:15-16 — commands readiness to defend the hope with gentleness

1 Timothy

• 1 Timothy 1:10 — vice list placing slave-dealing and sexual sin outside sound doctrine
• 1 Timothy 2:4 — god's saving desire stated, and its scope disputed

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 5:21 — god makes the sinless one sin for the guilty

2 Peter

• 2 Peter 1:16 — denies fabricated myths and claims eyewitness of Christ's majesty
• 2 Peter 1:21 — prophecy traced to the Spirit's carrying, not human initiative
• 2 Peter 3:15-16 — paul's letters called scripture, and hard to understand
• 2 Peter 3:9 — the delay of the day read as patience rather than slackness

2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 2:25 — correcting opponents gently, with repentance left to God
• 2 Timothy 3:16 — scripture as god-breathed and useful for formation

Acts

• Acts 17:11 — luke commends a synagogue that tested the preaching
• Acts 17:26-27 — one human origin, ordered times, and a God who is near
• Acts 17:28 — grounds human life and motion in God, quoting pagan poets
• Acts 2:22 — peter grounds the sermon in public, attested works
• Acts 2:23 — the cross as both divine plan and human guilt

Colossians

• Colossians 1:16 — grounds creation's origin and goal in the Son

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 21:23 — a hanged body is a curse, buried the same day
• Deuteronomy 29:29 — a boundary drawn between what God hides and what God reveals

Ephesians

• Ephesians 2:8-9 — salvation as gift, with boasting excluded and works relocated

Exodus

• Exodus 21:16 — a capital statute against seizing and selling a person
• Exodus 3:14 — the divine name given at the burning bush

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 33:11 — an oath that god takes no pleasure in death

Galatians

• Galatians 2:11 — paul records a public rebuke of peter at antioch
• Galatians 2:9 — the pillars extend right hands to Paul's Gentile mission
• Galatians 3:28 — baptismal unity in Christ across the sharpest social divides

Genesis

• Genesis 18:25 — abraham appeals to the judge of all the earth
• Genesis 1:1 — the opening sentence: God as origin of heaven and earth
• Genesis 1:27 — the image of God given to male and female alike
• Genesis 1:31 — the completed creation declared very good
• Genesis 50:20 — joseph names two intentions running through one event

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 1:13 — a prophet charges god with silence before injustice

Hebrews

• Hebrews 11:1 — faith described as confidence about what is not seen
• Hebrews 11:3 — faith grasps that the visible world was framed by a word
• Hebrews 1:1-2 — god's speech in the prophets and now in a son
• Hebrews 1:3 — describes the Son as radiance, imprint, and upholder
• Hebrews 4:15 — a high priest tested in every respect, yet without sin
• Hebrews 7:25 — a priest who lives always to intercede, saves completely

Isaiah

• Isaiah 40:8 — human life fades while god's word stands
• Isaiah 53:5 — vicarious wounds: the servant bears what the community deserved

James

• James 1:13 — james denies that god entices anyone toward sin
• James 2:10 — argues one transgression makes a person liable to the whole law

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 29:13 — a promise that exiles who seek god will find him

John

• John 10:18 — the shepherd's authority to lay down his life and take it
• John 10:28 — eternal life held in a hand no one can snatch from
• John 10:35 — an aside on the unbreakable authority of scripture
• John 14:26 — jesus promises the spirit will teach and remind
• John 14:6 — the way, the truth and the life, exclusive claim
• John 15:5 — fruitfulness located in union, not in the branch's own resources
• John 1:1 — the Word with God and the Word was God
• John 1:1-3 — the word was God, and all things came to be through him
• John 1:12 — receiving christ grants the right to become god's children
• John 1:14 — the prologue's hinge: the Word became flesh and pitched his tent
• John 20:28 — Thomas's confession of the risen Jesus as Lord and God
• John 20:30-31 — the gospel states its own purpose for writing
• John 3:16 — God's manner of loving the world in the giving of the Son
• John 6:35 — jesus names himself the bread that ends hunger
• John 6:37 — all the Father gives will come, and none be cast out
• John 6:44 — no one comes unless the Father draws him
• John 6:45 — the Father's teaching is what produces the coming
• John 7:17 — willing to do God's will as the condition for knowing
• John 8:58 — before Abraham was, I am

Luke

• Luke 12:47-48 — graded judgment according to knowledge and what was entrusted
• Luke 1:1-4 — a historian's preface claiming ordered, eyewitness-sourced research
• Luke 24:27 — the risen Jesus reads Israel's scriptures as being about himself

Matthew

• Matthew 22:39 — the second great commandment, love of neighbor as self
• Matthew 26:52 — forbids armed resistance at the arrest in Gethsemane
• Matthew 28:20 — the commission closes with a promise of presence
• Matthew 5:44 — commands love and prayer for enemies, grounded in God's generosity

Micah

• Micah 5:2 — the ruler to come from the small town of Bethlehem

Philippians

• Philippians 2:8 — obedience that runs all the way to a cross

Proverbs

• Proverbs 18:17 — the first account sounds right until the other party speaks

Psalm

• Psalm 119:160 — the sum of God's word is truth, his rules endure
• Psalm 13:1 — opens lament with the charge that God has forgotten
• Psalm 19:1 — the heavens declare glory without words
• Psalm 90:2 — contrasts God's age-spanning existence with the mountains' birth

Revelation

• Revelation 21:4 — god wipes every tear in the renewed creation

Romans

• Romans 1:19-20 — creation leaves humanity without excuse, not without need
• Romans 1:20 — created things show god's power, leaving no excuse
• Romans 1:4 — the resurrection as the son's public installation
• Romans 2:14-15 — gentiles show a law written on the heart
• Romans 2:15 — the law's work written on Gentile hearts, conscience testifying
• Romans 3:23 — all sinned and fall short of god's glory
• Romans 3:25-26 — the cross as the public demonstration of god's justice
• Romans 5:8 — love demonstrated in the timing of Christ's death for sinners
• Romans 6:23 — sin's wage and God's gift, set side by side
• Romans 8:20-22 — creation subjected to futility, yet straining toward liberation
• Romans 8:28 — a claim about god's purpose in suffering, carefully bounded
• Romans 8:32 — an argument from the greater gift to the lesser

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1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 21:5 — a larger count, and satan as the instigator

1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 10:4 — the rock that followed them was Christ
• 1 Corinthians 11:23 — received from the lord, delivered to you
• 1 Corinthians 13:12 — seeing in a mirror, dimly, for now
• 1 Corinthians 13:2 — gifts without love amount to nothing
• 1 Corinthians 14:25 — the outsider falls down and confesses God is present
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 — the gospel paul received and passed on
• 1 Corinthians 15:14-15 — if christ is not raised, faith is empty
• 1 Corinthians 15:20 — firstfruits of those who sleep
• 1 Corinthians 15:3 — received tradition: died for sins, according to scripture
• 1 Corinthians 15:4 — an early formula: buried, raised, appeared
• 1 Corinthians 15:50 — flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
• 1 Corinthians 15:7-8 — appearances to james and to paul
• 1 Corinthians 15:9 — the least of the apostles, by grace
• 1 Corinthians 1:10-13 — one body, divided by names
• 1 Corinthians 1:18 — the cross is folly and power at once
• 1 Corinthians 1:2 — called to be saints, with all who call on him
• 1 Corinthians 1:22-23 — signs for Jews, wisdom for Greeks, Christ crucified
• 1 Corinthians 1:9 — called into fellowship with his Son
• 1 Corinthians 2:14 — the natural person cannot receive the things of the Spirit
• 1 Corinthians 3:1 — infants in christ, not yet able to hear
• 1 Corinthians 3:6 — planting, watering, and the God who gives growth
• 1 Corinthians 4:5 — do not judge before the Lord comes
• 1 Corinthians 6:19 — the body is a temple of the indwelling Spirit
• 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 — a slogan about celibacy, and a correction
• 1 Corinthians 7:12 — paul distinguishes his own judgment
• 1 Corinthians 8:12 — wounding a weak conscience is sin against Christ
• 1 Corinthians 8:6 — one God the Father, one Lord Jesus Christ

1 John

• 1 John 1:5 — God is light, and no darkness in him
• 1 John 1:8-9 — confession and the faithfulness of god to forgive
• 1 John 1:9 — confession and the faithfulness of God to forgive
• 1 John 2:19 — they went out, because they were not of us
• 1 John 3:15 — hatred is already murder's root
• 1 John 3:20 — when the heart condemns, God is greater
• 1 John 3:4 — sin is defined as lawlessness, not as taste
• 1 John 4:1 — test the spirits, not every claim is from God
• 1 John 4:14 — the Father sent the Son as Savior of the world
• 1 John 4:16 — God is love, and the one who abides
• 1 John 4:2 — confessing that jesus christ has come in the flesh
• 1 John 4:2-3 — test the spirits by the confession of flesh
• 1 John 4:20 — love of the unseen God and the seen brother
• 1 John 5:11-12 — eternal life is in his Son
• 1 John 5:20 — the true God and eternal life, in his Son
• 1 John 5:7 — the trinitarian clause absent from the greek
• 1 John 5:9 — God's testimony about his Son is greater

1 Peter

• 1 Peter 1:17 — a Father who judges impartially, so live in fear
• 1 Peter 2:2 — newborns longing for unadulterated milk
• 1 Peter 2:22 — he committed no sin, nor was deceit found in him
• 1 Peter 3:18 — Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous
• 1 Peter 3:20 — noah's eight saved through water
• 1 Peter 5:2 — shepherding willingly, not for shameful gain
• 1 Peter 5:3 — examples rather than lords over the flock

1 Thessalonians

• 1 Thessalonians 1:10 — waiting for his Son from heaven, who delivers
• 1 Thessalonians 1:9 — you turned from idols to serve a living God
• 1 Thessalonians 4.16-5:2 — the Lord's descent and the day like a thief
• 1 Thessalonians 4:14 — if Jesus died and rose, God brings the dead
• 1 Thessalonians 4:15 — we who are alive will not precede the dead
• 1 Thessalonians 4:7 — called not for impurity but in holiness
• 1 Thessalonians 5:10 — whether awake or asleep, we live with him
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21 — test everything, hold fast the good

1 Timothy

• 1 Timothy 1:13 — shown mercy because the opposition was ignorant
• 1 Timothy 1:15 — christ came to save sinners, of whom i am foremost
• 1 Timothy 1:15-16 — christ came to save sinners, of whom i am foremost
• 1 Timothy 1:17 — to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, be honor
• 1 Timothy 2:11-15 — order in the assembly, and a difficult clause
• 1 Timothy 2:5 — one god, one mediator, the man christ jesus
• 1 Timothy 3:11-13 — the character required of women in service
• 1 Timothy 3:16 — a compact confession of the mystery of godliness
• 1 Timothy 3:6 — not a recent convert, or he may become proud
• 1 Timothy 4:4 — everything God created is good
• 1 Timothy 5:18 — the laborer deserves his wages
• 1 Timothy 5:8 — provision for one's household as duty
• 1 Timothy 6:10 — the love of money as a root
• 1 Timothy 6:16 — alone immortal, dwelling in unapproachable light
• 1 Timothy 6:5 — godliness treated as a means of gain

2 Chron

• 2 Chron 29:28 — the whole assembly worships until the offering ends

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 10:5 — every thought taken captive to christ
• 2 Corinthians 11:13 — false apostles dressed as apostles
• 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 — grace sufficient, power made perfect in weakness
• 2 Corinthians 12:8-9 — grace sufficient, power made perfect in weakness
• 2 Corinthians 12:9 — power made perfect in weakness
• 2 Corinthians 13:14 — grace, love, and fellowship in the closing blessing
• 2 Corinthians 13:4 — crucified in weakness, alive by God's power
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 — in Christ, a new creation
• 2 Corinthians 5:19 — god in christ reconciling the world to himself
• 2 Corinthians 5:7 — walking by faith rather than by sight
• 2 Corinthians 5:8 — absent from the body, at home with the lord

2 Peter

• 2 Peter 1:1 — a disputed grammatical case for calling jesus god
• 2 Peter 1:19 — a lamp in a dark place
• 2 Peter 1:20-21 — prophecy came from god, not from men
• 2 Peter 2:3 — exploited with fabricated words, for greed
• 2 Peter 2:4 — angels who sinned are held for judgment
• 2 Peter 2:5 — Noah, a herald of righteousness, preserved
• 2 Peter 3:8 — divine time and the delay of the promise

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 12:23 — I shall go to him, he will not return
• 2 Samuel 24:9 — eight hundred thousand and five hundred thousand

2 Thessalonians

• 2 Thessalonians 1:9 — judgment described as eternal destruction
• 2 Thessalonians 2:13 — chosen from the beginning for salvation

2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 2:13 — he remains faithful, he cannot deny himself
• 2 Timothy 2:15 — present yourself approved, rightly handling the word
• 2 Timothy 3:15 — scriptures known from childhood, wise for salvation

Acts

• Acts 10:25-26 — peter refuses to be worshipped by cornelius
• Acts 10:43 — all the prophets witness that believers are forgiven
• Acts 10:44-48 — the Spirit falls on Gentiles before baptism
• Acts 11:18 — the jerusalem church falls silent and glorifies god
• Acts 12:2 — james killed, the first of the twelve
• Acts 14:14-15 — we also are men, and there is a living god
• Acts 15:20 — four requirements laid on Gentile believers
• Acts 15:28-29 — the council's letter and its short list
• Acts 16:14 — the lord opened lydia's heart to listen
• Acts 16:31 — believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved
• Acts 17:17 — paul arguing daily in synagogue and marketplace
• Acts 17:24 — the maker of all does not live in handmade temples
• Acts 17:24-25 — the God who needs nothing, made everything
• Acts 17:25 — a god who gives, and therefore needs nothing
• Acts 17:26 — one origin for the nations, times and borders disposed
• Acts 17:30 — ignorance overlooked, and a command to all to repent
• Acts 17:30-31 — overlooked ignorance, a command to repent
• Acts 17:31 — a fixed day, an appointed judge, proven by resurrection
• Acts 1:3 — forty days of appearances and teaching on the kingdom
• Acts 1:8 — power, witnesses, to the end of the earth
• Acts 20:33-34 — no one's silver, and hands that worked
• Acts 22:3 — raised here, taught by gamaliel, zealous
• Acts 2:29-32 — David's tomb and the resurrection witness
• Acts 2:32 — we are all witnesses of the resurrection
• Acts 2:38 — repentance, baptism, and the promise of the spirit
• Acts 2:5-11 — each group hears the same speech in its own tongue
• Acts 4:12 — no other name given for salvation
• Acts 4:13 — unlettered men recognised as having been with jesus
• Acts 5:3-4 — lying to the Spirit, lying to God
• Acts 5:40-42 — rejoicing after a flogging, teaching without pause
• Acts 7:22 — Moses trained in all the wisdom of Egypt
• Acts 7:55-60 — stephen's vision, and a prayer like his master's
• Acts 8:1-3 — saul's violence scatters the jerusalem church
• Acts 8:26-39 — an ethiopian official reads isaiah and is baptised
• Acts 9:15 — a chosen vessel for gentiles, kings, and israel

Amos

• Amos 3:7 — nothing without revealing it to the prophets
• Amos 5:21 — feasts hated, assemblies not delighted in
• Amos 7:14-15 — a herdsman taken from the flock, not a prophet's son

Colossians

• Colossians 1:15-17 — image of the invisible god, firstborn of creation
• Colossians 1:16-17 — all things created and held together in him
• Colossians 1:17 — before all things, and holding all things together
• Colossians 1:27 — Christ in you, the hope of glory
• Colossians 2:10 — filled in him, who is the head of every power
• Colossians 2:15 — the cross as public victory
• Colossians 2:2-3 — all the treasures of wisdom hidden in Christ
• Colossians 2:6 — as you received him, so walk in him
• Colossians 2:8 — a warning against a philosophy that takes captives
• Colossians 2:9 — in him the fullness of deity dwells bodily
• Colossians 3:24 — serving Christ, and an inheritance as reward
• Colossians 4:1 — masters answerable to a master in heaven
• Colossians 4:14 — Luke the beloved physician sends greetings
• Colossians 4:6 — speech gracious and seasoned with salt

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 10:19 — love the stranger, because you were strangers
• Deuteronomy 12:31 — not the way the nations worship
• Deuteronomy 13:1-5 — a true sign does not validate a false message
• Deuteronomy 15:12-15 — release in the seventh year, and remember egypt
• Deuteronomy 17:6 — two or three witnesses, never one
• Deuteronomy 18:10 — a boundary against divination and consulting the dead
• Deuteronomy 18:20 — presumption in speaking for god
• Deuteronomy 18:22 — the test of a prophecy that fails
• Deuteronomy 19:19 — the false witness receives his own sentence
• Deuteronomy 1:39 — little ones who do not yet know good and evil
• Deuteronomy 21:18-21 — the stubborn son brought to the elders
• Deuteronomy 23:15-16 — do not return an escaped slave
• Deuteronomy 24:16 — each dies for his own sin, in israel's courts
• Deuteronomy 25:4 — do not muzzle the ox as it treads
• Deuteronomy 30:19 — life and death set before you, choose life
• Deuteronomy 34:7 — moses died full of years and vigour
• Deuteronomy 6:4 — the LORD is one, and Israel is to hear
• Deuteronomy 8:2 — forty years to test what was in the heart

Ephesians

• Ephesians 1:4-5 — chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world
• Ephesians 1:5 — adoption as the purpose of election
• Ephesians 2:1-3 — dead in trespasses, children of wrath
• Ephesians 2:10 — workmanship created in Christ for good works
• Ephesians 2:13 — those far off brought near by blood
• Ephesians 2:8 — saved by grace, through faith, as gift
• Ephesians 4:15 — speaking the truth in love, growing into Christ
• Ephesians 4:21 — the truth that is in Jesus, as you were taught
• Ephesians 5:25 — husbands told to love as Christ loved the church
• Ephesians 6:9 — masters answer to a master in heaven

Exodus

• Exodus 12:37 — six hundred thousand on foot, out of Rameses
• Exodus 19:5-6 — a treasured possession, a kingdom of priests
• Exodus 20:13 — the command against unlawful killing
• Exodus 21:26-27 — the slave released for an eye or a tooth
• Exodus 34:6 — merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love
• Exodus 4:22 — israel named as the firstborn son
• Exodus 4:31 — the people bow when they hear they are seen

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 18:20 — the son not bearing the father's iniquity
• Ezekiel 18:23 — no pleasure in the death of the wicked
• Ezekiel 18:32 — no pleasure in anyone's death
• Ezekiel 28:12-15 — the seal of perfection in Eden
• Ezekiel 37:12 — graves opened, exiles brought home

Galatians

• Galatians 1:11-12 — the gospel came by revelation, not by tradition
• Galatians 1:13-14 — paul's former life as a persecutor
• Galatians 1:8-9 — a curse on any other gospel, repeated
• Galatians 2:1-10 — a second visit, and the right hand of fellowship
• Galatians 2:11-14 — paul confronts peter at antioch over table
• Galatians 2:16 — not by works of law, but through faith
• Galatians 2:21 — if righteousness came by law, Christ died for nothing
• Galatians 2:6 — the leaders added nothing to me
• Galatians 3:1-3 — having begun by the Spirit, now perfected by the flesh
• Galatians 3:24 — the law as guardian until Christ came
• Galatians 5:6 — what counts is faith working through love
• Galatians 6:2 — bear one another's burdens and fulfill his law

Genesis

• Genesis 11:1-9 — the city that feared scattering and was scattered
• Genesis 15:16 — the Amorites' iniquity not yet complete
• Genesis 15:6 — abram believed, and it was counted to him
• Genesis 1:11-12 — plants bearing seed after their kind
• Genesis 1:16-17 — two lights and the stars, made and placed
• Genesis 1:2 — the Spirit over the face of the deep
• Genesis 1:21 — god creates the sea creatures and birds
• Genesis 1:24-25 — living creatures after their kinds
• Genesis 1:26-27 — let us make humankind in our image
• Genesis 1:3 — god speaks, and light is
• Genesis 1:4 — god sees the light and calls it good
• Genesis 22:1 — the narrator tells us it is a test
• Genesis 22:12 — the angel's verdict at the moment of the stop
• Genesis 22:13 — a ram in the thicket, offered in his place
• Genesis 22:5 — we will worship and we will come back to you
• Genesis 22:8 — God will provide, said on the way up the mountain
• Genesis 24:26 — the servant bows when the prayer is answered
• Genesis 29:31 — the lord opens the womb of the unloved wife
• Genesis 2:16-17 — the one tree withheld, and the stated warning
• Genesis 2:17 — the command and its stated penalty
• Genesis 2:24 — one flesh, and the leave-taking that precedes it
• Genesis 2:4 — the generations of heaven and earth
• Genesis 3:17 — the ground cursed because of the man
• Genesis 3:22 — expelled lest he take from the tree of life
• Genesis 41:57 — all the earth came to egypt for grain
• Genesis 4:14 — cain fears that whoever finds him will kill him
• Genesis 4:17 — cain builds a city and names it for his son
• Genesis 5:4 — adam had other sons and daughters
• Genesis 6:11-13 — the earth was corrupt and filled with violence
• Genesis 6:3 — a limit set before the flood
• Genesis 6:5-6 — grief and regret before the flood
• Genesis 6:6 — grief and regret before the flood
• Genesis 9:12-13 — the bow in the cloud, a sign of the covenant
• Genesis 9:13 — the bow in the cloud as covenant sign

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 1:2-3 — how long, and the answer is worse
• Habakkuk 1:6 — god raises up babylon as an instrument of judgment

Hebrews

• Hebrews 10:12 — one offering, then seated at the right hand
• Hebrews 10:24-25 — do not neglect meeting, but provoke love
• Hebrews 10:26 — no sacrifice remains for deliberate sin
• Hebrews 10:4 — animal blood cannot take away sins
• Hebrews 11:19 — abraham reckoned god able to raise the dead
• Hebrews 11:29 — by faith they crossed, and Egypt was drowned
• Hebrews 11:7 — by faith Noah, warned, built the ark
• Hebrews 12:2 — looking to the one who begins and completes faith
• Hebrews 1:5-13 — a chain of quotations exalting the Son above angels
• Hebrews 1:6 — let all god's angels worship him
• Hebrews 1:8 — the son addressed as god, throne forever
• Hebrews 2:11 — one who sanctifies and those sanctified are one
• Hebrews 2:14 — he shared flesh and blood to disarm death
• Hebrews 2:17 — a merciful and faithful high priest for the people
• Hebrews 2:9 — lowered for a little while, crowned through suffering
• Hebrews 4:12 — the word is alive and it judges
• Hebrews 4:13 — no creature hidden from the eyes of god
• Hebrews 5:8 — he learned obedience through suffering
• Hebrews 6:20 — a forerunner entered behind the curtain
• Hebrews 6:4-6 — renewal impossible after falling away
• Hebrews 7:22 — jesus the guarantee of a better covenant
• Hebrews 7:24 — a priesthood that does not pass to a successor
• Hebrews 7:27 — no repeated sacrifice, because he offered himself once
• Hebrews 8:13 — the old covenant growing old and vanishing
• Hebrews 8:6 — mediator of a better covenant on better promises
• Hebrews 9:14 — the blood of Christ cleanses the conscience
• Hebrews 9:27 — appointed once to die, then judgment

Hosea

• Hosea 11:1 — Israel called out of Egypt as a son
• Hosea 11:10 — the roar that summons exiles home
• Hosea 11:11 — trembling like birds from egypt and assyria
• Hosea 11:8 — how can I give you up, ephraim
• Hosea 3:5 — returning to seek the lord and david their king
• Hosea 6:6 — steadfast love desired, not sacrifice

Isaiah

• Isaiah 11:1 — a shoot from the stump of jesse
• Isaiah 14:12-14 — the pride of a tyrant brought down
• Isaiah 1:11 — multiplied sacrifices, and a refusal to look
• Isaiah 1:18 — come, and let us settle the case
• Isaiah 40:12 — creator measures the waters in his hand
• Isaiah 40:22 — he stretches the heavens like a curtain
• Isaiah 40:26 — he calls the stars each by name
• Isaiah 43:10 — witnesses, and a God who is alone
• Isaiah 44:28 — cyrus named as god's shepherd
• Isaiah 44:6 — first and last, no god besides me
• Isaiah 44:8 — is there a God besides me?
• Isaiah 45:15 — a God who hides himself
• Isaiah 45:18 — formed to be inhabited, not empty
• Isaiah 45:18-25 — turn to me and be saved, all ends of earth
• Isaiah 45:5 — there is no God besides me, spoken to Cyrus
• Isaiah 46:10 — declaring the end from the beginning
• Isaiah 46:9-10 — declaring the end from the beginning
• Isaiah 53:3 — despised and rejected, a man of sorrows
• Isaiah 53:4-5 — borne griefs, carried sorrows, wounded for transgressions
• Isaiah 53:4-6 — he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows
• Isaiah 53:5-6 — wounded for our transgressions, sheep gone astray
• Isaiah 55:8-9 — god's thoughts higher than ours, in a call to return
• Isaiah 57:15 — the high and lifted up, with the contrite
• Isaiah 5:20 — woe to those who call evil good
• Isaiah 64:6 — our righteousness like a soiled garment
• Isaiah 8:17 — waiting on a god who hides his face
• Isaiah 9:6 — a child born with royal titles

James

• James 1:14-15 — desire conceives, sin is born, death follows
• James 1:18 — god's own will gives new life
• James 1:2-3 — joy in trials, because testing produces endurance
• James 1:21 — receive the word already planted
• James 1:27 — religion measured by widows, orphans, and unstained conduct
• James 2:17 — faith without works is dead
• James 2:19 — even the demons believe, and they shudder
• James 2:23 — abraham's trust reckoned as righteousness
• James 2:5 — the poor chosen to be rich in faith
• James 4:1 — quarrels traced to warring desires
• James 4:1-3 — quarrels from desires, and prayers badly asked
• James 4:3 — you ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly
• James 4:6 — God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 17:9 — the heart beyond knowing, and its cure
• Jeremiah 23:5 — a righteous branch raised for david
• Jeremiah 32:17 — nothing too hard for the maker of heaven
• Jeremiah 32:27 — the God of all flesh, asking his own question
• Jeremiah 7:31 — child sacrifice in the valley, never commanded

Job

• Job 14:4 — who can bring clean from unclean
• Job 15:14 — eliphaz asks whether anyone born can be clean
• Job 19:25 — i know that my redeemer lives
• Job 1:1 — a blameless man in the land of uz
• Job 1:12-19 — the losses permitted, and reported one by one
• Job 1:21 — the Lord gives and takes, and Job worships
• Job 1:8 — the accuser is asked to consider job
• Job 25:4 — bildad's last word, and it is a question
• Job 38:4 — where were you when the foundations were laid
• Job 38:7 — morning stars singing at the earth's foundation
• Job 42:6 — job's final word, dust and ashes
• Job 42:7 — the friends rebuked, job vindicated
• Job 9:2 — how can a mortal be righteous before god
• Job 9:33 — no arbitrator to lay a hand on both

John

• John 10:10 — the thief steals, the shepherd gives abundance
• John 10:11 — the good shepherd lays down his life
• John 10:14 — the good shepherd knows his own
• John 10:25 — the works I do in my Father's name testify
• John 10:27 — my sheep hear and follow
• John 10:27-28 — my sheep hear, and none can snatch them
• John 10:30 — unity with the Father, heard as blasphemy
• John 10:30-33 — i and the father are one, and stones taken up
• John 10:33 — the charge that he made himself god
• John 10:7 — i am the door of the sheep
• John 10:9 — entering by me, saved, and finding pasture
• John 11:25 — i am the resurrection and the life
• John 11:25-26 — resurrection moved from a date to a person
• John 11:35 — Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus
• John 11:6 — jesus delays two days before going to lazarus
• John 12:17 — the crowd that saw Lazarus raised kept testifying
• John 12:26 — where I am, there my servant will be
• John 12:32 — lifted up, he will draw all people
• John 12:37 — signs seen, and still no belief
• John 12:46 — light into the world, so believers need not stay dark
• John 13:34-35 — a new command, love as i have loved you
• John 13:35 — known by love for one another
• John 14:1-4 — many rooms, a place prepared, and a way
• John 14:11 — believe for the works' sake
• John 14:14 — ask in my name, and i will do it
• John 14:15 — love for Christ shows itself in keeping his commands
• John 14:21 — love measured by keeping the commandments
• John 14:27 — peace given, not as the world gives
• John 15:1 — the true vine, and the father as vinedresser
• John 15:11 — his joy in them, and their joy made full
• John 15:20 — a servant is not greater than his master
• John 15:26 — the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father
• John 15:27 — you also testify, because you were with me
• John 16:12-13 — the Spirit will guide you into all the truth
• John 16:13 — the Spirit of truth will declare what is to come
• John 16:30 — now we believe that you came from God
• John 16:33 — in the world tribulation, in him peace
• John 16:8 — the spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, judgment
• John 17:2 — authority over all flesh, given to give life
• John 17:20-21 — jesus prays for those who will believe through their word
• John 17:24 — a prayer to be with him and see his glory
• John 17:5 — glory shared before the world existed
• John 17:8 — they received the words and believed you sent me
• John 18:36 — my kingdom is not from here
• John 18:37 — everyone who is of the truth hears my voice
• John 19:30 — it is finished, and he bowed his head
• John 1:17 — grace and truth came through Jesus Christ
• John 1:18 — no one has seen God; the Son reveals him
• John 1:29 — the Lamb of God who takes away sin
• John 1:46 — can anything good come from nazareth
• John 20:19 — the risen jesus stands among the fearful
• John 20:21 — sent as the father sent the son
• John 20:25 — unless i see, i will never believe
• John 20:27 — see my hands, put your hand here
• John 20:29 — blessed are those who have not seen
• John 20:31 — written so that you may believe and live
• John 21:17 — Peter grieved, and told to feed the sheep
• John 21:24 — the disciple who wrote, and the we who vouch
• John 21:25 — more than the world could contain
• John 2:14-16 — tables overturned in his Father's house
• John 2:15-16 — the temple cleared of trade
• John 2:19 — destroy this temple and I will raise it
• John 2:19-21 — destroy this temple, raised in three days
• John 3:16 — god loved the world and gave the son
• John 3:16-17 — god loved the world and gave
• John 3:16-18 — God loved the world and gave the Son
• John 3:17 — sent not to condemn but to save
• John 3:18 — judgment already in force on unbelief
• John 3:19-20 — loving darkness, and fearing the light
• John 3:35 — the Father loves the Son and gives all things
• John 3:4 — a teacher hearing new birth as physical
• John 4:11 — the well is deep, and he has no bucket
• John 4:24 — God is spirit, and worship in spirit
• John 4:42 — we know this is truly the Savior of the world
• John 5:22 — judgment handed to the Son, not retained
• John 5:23 — honor the son as the father is honored
• John 5:26-27 — life in himself, and authority to judge
• John 5:27 — authority to judge because he is Son of Man
• John 5:36 — the works themselves testify on his behalf
• John 5:37 — the Father has testified, though you have not heard him
• John 5:39 — you search the Scriptures, and they testify of me
• John 5:40 — you will not come to me to have life
• John 6:28-29 — the work God requires is believing
• John 6:38 — not my own will, but the will of the sender
• John 6:40 — everyone who looks and believes has life
• John 6:41 — grumbling at the bread come down from heaven
• John 6:48 — i am the bread of life
• John 6:51 — the living bread is my flesh
• John 6:53-54 — eating flesh and drinking blood in the discourse
• John 6:54 — life tied to eating his flesh and drinking his blood
• John 6:60 — a hard saying, and who can hear it
• John 6:63 — the Spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing
• John 6:65 — no one can come unless it is granted
• John 6:66 — many turned back and stopped walking with him
• John 7:37 — if anyone thirsts, let him come and drink
• John 7:5 — his own brothers did not believe
• John 7:53-8 — the woman taken in adultery
• John 8:12 — i am the light of the world
• John 8:18 — I testify of myself, and the Father testifies
• John 8:24 — unless you believe that i am he
• John 8:32 — knowing the truth, and the freedom it gives
• John 8:56-59 — before abraham was, i am
• John 8:59 — stones taken up after the i am saying
• John 8:7 — the sinless one may throw first
• John 9:2-3 — whose sin, and the answer that refuses the question
• John 9:3 — not this man's sin, but God's work
• John 9:35-38 — the healed man believes and worships
• John 9:5 — light of the world while i am here

Jonah

• Jonah 4:11 — pity for nineveh and its animals

Joshua

• Joshua 10:13 — the sun stood still, and a book is cited
• Joshua 11:21-22 — the anaqim removed except from three cities
• Joshua 15:13-14 — caleb drives the anaqim from hebron

Jude

• Jude 1:6 — angels who abandoned their position

Judges

• Judges 13:5 — a nazirite from birth who begins to save
• Judges 21:25 — no king in israel, each doing what was right

Leviticus

• Leviticus 17:11 — the life in the blood, given for atonement
• Leviticus 18:21 — do not give your children to Molech
• Leviticus 18:6 — none shall approach close kin to uncover nakedness
• Leviticus 20:13 — a capital offense in israel's holiness code
• Leviticus 25:39-43 — a brother who sells himself is not a slave
• Leviticus 7:15-18 — eaten the same day, or not accepted

Luke

• Luke 10:16 — whoever rejects you rejects the one who sent me
• Luke 10:18 — a vision of satan falling
• Luke 10:19 — authority over serpents and scorpions
• Luke 10:22 — the Son reveals the Father, and chooses whom
• Luke 10:35 — the Samaritan pays and promises to return
• Luke 10:7 — stay put and eat what is set before you
• Luke 12:48 — to whom much was given, much will be required
• Luke 12:51 — not peace but division, and he means it
• Luke 13:24 — strive to enter before the door closes
• Luke 13:4 — the tower at siloam and the wrong inference
• Luke 13:4-5 — the tower at Siloam, and repentance for all
• Luke 14:25-33 — counting the cost before following
• Luke 14:26 — hating family as a saying about priority
• Luke 16:19-31 — the rich man, Lazarus, and the great chasm
• Luke 16:31 — moses and the prophets as sufficient warning
• Luke 17:26-27 — as in the days of Noah, so will it be
• Luke 18:13 — god, be merciful to me, a sinner
• Luke 18:13-14 — the tax collector goes home justified
• Luke 18:9 — told to those who trusted themselves
• Luke 18:9-14 — two men, two prayers, one justified
• Luke 19:10 — the son of man came to seek the lost
• Luke 19:10 — the Son of Man came to seek the lost
• Luke 19:41 — Jesus weeps over the city he is entering
• Luke 1:42 — blessed among women, and blessed her child
• Luke 22:36 — sell your cloak and buy a sword
• Luke 22:42 — not my will but yours be done
• Luke 22:44 — agony, and sweat like blood
• Luke 23:3 — you say that I am, answered to Pilate
• Luke 23:34 — a prayer for forgiveness from the cross
• Luke 23:43 — today you will be with me in paradise
• Luke 23:46 — committing the spirit into the Father's hands
• Luke 24:39 — a spirit does not have flesh and bones
• Luke 24:44 — the law, the prophets, and the psalms fulfilled
• Luke 24:45 — minds opened to understand the scriptures
• Luke 24:46-47 — suffering, resurrection, and a mission to nations
• Luke 2:1 — luke frames the birth inside imperial history
• Luke 2:32 — light for the gentiles, glory for israel
• Luke 2:7 — a firstborn laid in a feeding trough
• Luke 4:18 — anointed to announce good news to the poor
• Luke 4:21 — today this scripture is fulfilled
• Luke 4:43 — I must preach the kingdom to other towns also
• Luke 5:20 — he saw their faith and said, your sins are forgiven
• Luke 7:48 — a pronouncement of forgiveness to a silent woman
• Luke 9:35 — a voice from the cloud names the chosen Son
• Luke 9:54-55 — a rebuke of fire from heaven

Malachi

• Malachi 1:2-3 — jacob loved, esau hated, as election language
• Malachi 3:6 — constancy as the reason israel survives

Mark

• Mark 10:45 — a ransom for many, not seats of honor
• Mark 11:22 — have faith in god, not in technique
• Mark 11:24 — believe you have received it, and it will be yours
• Mark 13:32 — the day and hour known only to the Father
• Mark 14:36 — the prayer in the garden, not my will
• Mark 14:61-64 — the high priest asks, and the answer brings a charge
• Mark 14:66-72 — peter's three denials in the high priest's courtyard
• Mark 15:34 — a cry from the psalm, at the ninth hour
• Mark 16:1 — women come with spices at dawn
• Mark 16:1-8 — the empty tomb and the fear that silenced them
• Mark 16:15 — proclaim the gospel to the whole creation
• Mark 16:9-20 — the longer ending and its textual standing
• Mark 1:15 — the time is fulfilled, the kingdom is near
• Mark 2:15-17 — jesus at table with tax collectors and sinners
• Mark 2:28 — the son of man as lord of the sabbath
• Mark 2:5-7 — a forgiveness claimed, and blasphemy charged
• Mark 3:28-29 — every blasphemy forgiven except one
• Mark 5:41 — taking her hand and calling her up
• Mark 6:5 — not many mighty works in his own town
• Mark 7:34 — a sigh, a word, and opened ears

Matthew

• Matthew 10:37 — loving family more than jesus
• Matthew 11:20-24 — woes on towns that saw and did not turn
• Matthew 11:22 — more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you
• Matthew 11:27 — no one knows the Father except the Son
• Matthew 11:28 — come to me, all who are weary, and rest
• Matthew 12:22-24 — a healing, and a charge about its source
• Matthew 12:32 — two ages, and speech that is not forgiven
• Matthew 13:24-30 — wheat and weeds growing together
• Matthew 14:33 — those in the boat worship and confess
• Matthew 15:4 — the commandment upheld against a tradition loophole
• Matthew 16:15 — who do you say that I am
• Matthew 16:17 — flesh and blood did not reveal this
• Matthew 16:18 — on this rock I will build my church
• Matthew 17:5 — the beloved Son, and the command to listen
• Matthew 18:11 — the Son of Man came to save the lost
• Matthew 18:20 — two or three gathered, and christ among them
• Matthew 18:3 — turning and becoming like a child
• Matthew 19:12 — some are eunuchs for the kingdom's sake
• Matthew 19:14 — let the children come to me
• Matthew 19:26 — impossible with men, possible with God
• Matthew 19:8 — a concession because of hard hearts
• Matthew 1:21 — he will save his people from their sins
• Matthew 1:25 — Joseph kept her apart until the birth
• Matthew 1:8 — a genealogy that skips three kings
• Matthew 20:28 — came to serve, not to be served
• Matthew 21:31 — the tax collectors go in ahead of you
• Matthew 22:37 — love God with heart, soul, and mind
• Matthew 23:12 — the reversal of the exalted and the humble
• Matthew 24:24 — false signs and the deception of the elect
• Matthew 24:35 — my words will not pass away
• Matthew 24:37 — the days of noah as a pattern of surprise
• Matthew 25:41 — eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels
• Matthew 25:46 — the same word for both destinations
• Matthew 26:69-75 — Peter denies three times and weeps
• Matthew 26:75 — peter remembered and wept bitterly
• Matthew 27:45-53 — darkness, the curtain, and opened tombs
• Matthew 27:51-53 — the curtain torn and the tombs opened
• Matthew 27:52-53 — tombs opened at the crucifixion, saints appearing in the city
• Matthew 27:53 — raised bodies appear in the holy city
• Matthew 28:13 — the guards were paid to say the body was stolen
• Matthew 28:17 — they worshipped, and some doubted
• Matthew 28:18 — all authority given, therefore go
• Matthew 28:18-20 — all authority, therefore go and make disciples
• Matthew 28:19 — baptizing into a threefold name, all nations
• Matthew 28:19-20 — go, baptize, teach, and I am with you
• Matthew 2:1-6 — magi from the east, and a king in Bethlehem
• Matthew 2:11 — gold, frankincense, and myrrh in bethlehem
• Matthew 2:15 — out of Egypt, quoted as fulfilled
• Matthew 2:2 — where is the child born king of the jews
• Matthew 3:17 — the voice names the beloved Son at baptism
• Matthew 4:1-11 — tested in the wilderness, answered with scripture
• Matthew 4:10 — worship and service belong to God alone
• Matthew 4:4 — not by bread alone but by god's word
• Matthew 5:17 — not to abolish but to fulfill
• Matthew 5:17-18 — not to abolish the law but to fulfill it
• Matthew 5:18 — not one letter until all is accomplished
• Matthew 5:21-22 — contempt is answerable to judgment
• Matthew 5:21-26 — anger stands under the same command
• Matthew 5:29-30 — hyperbolic urgency about occasions of sin
• Matthew 5:48 — be complete, as your Father is complete
• Matthew 5:9 — blessed are the peacemakers, called sons of God
• Matthew 6:9-13 — the pattern prayer jesus taught his disciples
• Matthew 7:13-14 — the narrow gate and the hard way
• Matthew 7:16 — known by fruit, not by claim
• Matthew 7:21 — not everyone who says Lord will enter
• Matthew 7:21-23 — not everyone who says Lord, Lord
• Matthew 7:23 — knowing Christ is more than religious performance
• Matthew 7:3-5 — the log and the speck
• Matthew 7:7 — persistent prayer grounded in the father's character
• Matthew 7:9 — a father gives bread, not stone
• Matthew 8:11 — many from east and west at the table
• Matthew 8:12 — the sons of the kingdom cast out
• Matthew 8:20 — nowhere to lay his head
• Matthew 8:22 — the urgency that outranks burial duty
• Matthew 9:1-7 — forgiveness spoken first, healing as its evidence

Micah

• Micah 5:1-2 — a ruler from bethlehem, small among judah
• Micah 6:8 — justice, kindness, and a humble walk

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 9:6 — you alone are the LORD, maker of all

Numbers

• Numbers 23:19 — god is not a man, that he should lie

Philippians

• Philippians 1:11 — fruit of righteousness, to the glory of God
• Philippians 1:29 — believing and suffering are both granted
• Philippians 2:12-13 — work out, because god works in you
• Philippians 2:3 — humility that counts others significant
• Philippians 2:5-11 — the mind of Christ in self-emptying obedience
• Philippians 2:5-8 — the mind of christ, emptied and obedient
• Philippians 2:6-11 — emptied, obedient to death, then given the name
• Philippians 2:6-7 — he emptied himself, taking servant form
• Philippians 2:7 — he emptied himself, taking a servant's form
• Philippians 3:5 — paul's own credentials, listed and then counted loss
• Philippians 3:7 — former gains counted as loss for Christ
• Philippians 3:9 — not my own righteousness, but one from God
• Philippians 4:6 — anxiety answered by prayer with thanksgiving

Proverbs

• Proverbs 14:12 — a way that seems right and ends in death
• Proverbs 15:3 — the eyes of the lord in every place
• Proverbs 16:18 — pride before the fall, as a proverb
• Proverbs 16:9 — the heart plans, the lord directs the steps
• Proverbs 21:1 — the king's heart in the lord's hand
• Proverbs 8:17 — wisdom found by those who seek her

Psalm

• Psalm 102:25-27 — the heavens perish, you remain
• Psalm 107:29 — he stilled the storm and the waves were hushed
• Psalm 115:8 — those who make idols become like them
• Psalm 117:2 — great love, enduring faithfulness, and praise
• Psalm 119:105 — a lamp for the feet, not the whole road
• Psalm 119:130 — opened words give light to the inexperienced
• Psalm 138:6 — the lofty god who regards the lowly
• Psalm 139:13 — god formed the psalmist in the womb
• Psalm 139:14 — fearfully and wonderfully made, a reason for praise
• Psalm 139:7-8 — nowhere to flee from god's presence
• Psalm 145:17 — righteous in all his ways, kind in all his works
• Psalm 145:9 — good to all, merciful over all his works
• Psalm 14:1 — the fool's denial in the heart
• Psalm 16:11 — the path of life and joy in god's presence
• Psalm 19:1-3 — the heavens speak without words
• Psalm 19:1-4 — the heavens declare, without words
• Psalm 22:1 — my God, my God, why have you forsaken me
• Psalm 22:16-18 — pierced hands and feet, garments divided
• Psalm 33:6 — the heavens made by a word, the host by breath
• Psalm 50:13 — does God eat the flesh of bulls
• Psalm 50:9 — no bull taken from your house
• Psalm 51:4 — against you only have I sinned, and done evil
• Psalm 74:14 — leviathan crushed in an old act of deliverance
• Psalm 85:10 — steadfast love and faithfulness meet together
• Psalm 90:10 — seventy years, and the labour of them
• Psalm 90:4 — a thousand years like yesterday

Revelation

• Revelation 13:8 — names written before the foundation of the world
• Revelation 19:10 — worship god, not the messenger
• Revelation 1:17 — fear not, i am the first and the last
• Revelation 1:5 — the ruler of kings, who released us by his blood
• Revelation 20:14-15 — death and Hades thrown into the lake of fire
• Revelation 21:5 — behold, I make all things new
• Revelation 21:8 — the cowardly and unbelieving, their portion in the lake
• Revelation 22:13 — alpha and omega, beginning and end
• Revelation 22:17 — the Spirit and the bride say, come
• Revelation 2:8 — to smyrna, from the first and the last
• Revelation 3:20 — christ knocking at the door of a church
• Revelation 4:11 — creation's worthiness grounds the throne's praise
• Revelation 4:8 — holy, holy, holy, and ceaseless praise
• Revelation 7:11 — the angels fall before the throne

Romans

• Romans 10:13 — whoever calls on the name will be saved
• Romans 10:14 — how can they hear without a preacher
• Romans 10:14-15 — sent, preached, heard, believed, called
• Romans 10:17 — faith comes by hearing the proclaimed word
• Romans 10:9 — confess with the mouth, believe in the heart
• Romans 11:33 — the depth of unsearchable judgments
• Romans 11:33-34 — the depth of God's wisdom past tracing out
• Romans 12:14 — bless those who persecute you
• Romans 12:15 — rejoice with the joyful, weep with the weeping
• Romans 12:17-21 — overcome evil with good, leave vengeance to god
• Romans 12:18 — if possible, live peaceably with all
• Romans 13:1-4 — authority as god's servant, with a sword
• Romans 14:1-12 — do not despise the one who abstains
• Romans 14:4 — who are you to judge another's servant
• Romans 1:18 — wrath revealed against truth suppressed
• Romans 1:19 — what can be known of god is plain
• Romans 1:21 — knowing god and refusing to honour him
• Romans 1:24 — God gave them up in the desires of their hearts
• Romans 1:24-28 — given up to the desires they chose
• Romans 1:26-27 — desire exchanged for what is contrary to nature
• Romans 1:28 — God gave them over to a debased mind
• Romans 2:12 — sinners judged with and without the law
• Romans 2:12-15 — a law written on the heart, and conscience
• Romans 2:6 — each one repaid according to works
• Romans 2:6-8 — judgment by deeds, without partiality
• Romans 3:10 — none righteous, not even one
• Romans 3:10-12 — none is righteous, not even one
• Romans 3:10-18 — a catena of psalms, and none righteous
• Romans 3:11 — none understands, none seeks after god
• Romans 3:2 — israel entrusted with the oracles of god
• Romans 3:20 — by works of the law shall no flesh be justified
• Romans 3:24 — justified freely by his grace as a gift
• Romans 3:27 — boasting excluded by the law of faith
• Romans 3:28 — justified by faith apart from works of the law
• Romans 3:28-30 — one God justifies both groups the same way
• Romans 4:1-6 — the worker's wage against the gift
• Romans 4:17 — the god who gives life to the dead
• Romans 4:25 — delivered for trespasses, raised for justification
• Romans 4:3 — Abraham believed, and it was reckoned to him
• Romans 4:4-5 — wages versus gift in the accounting
• Romans 4:5 — God justifies the ungodly who bring nothing
• Romans 5.21-6:2 — grace does not license continuing in sin
• Romans 5:1 — justified by faith, peace with God
• Romans 5:10 — reconciled by his death, saved by his life
• Romans 5:10-11 — reconciled to God while still enemies
• Romans 5:12 — sin and death entering through one man
• Romans 5:12-19 — one trespass, one gift, two humanities
• Romans 5:13 — sin was in the world before the law
• Romans 5:18 — one trespass, one act of righteousness
• Romans 5:19 — one man's disobedience and one man's obedience
• Romans 5:3-5 — suffering, endurance, character, and a hope that holds
• Romans 5:8 — christ died for us while we were still sinners
• Romans 5:9 — reconciled now, saved later from wrath
• Romans 7:18-19 — the will present, the doing absent
• Romans 8:1 — no condemnation for those in Christ
• Romans 8:15 — a spirit of adoption, not of slavery
• Romans 8:18 — present suffering weighed against coming glory
• Romans 8:19-22 — creation groaning for its release
• Romans 8:2 — the spirit's law releases from the law of sin
• Romans 8:21 — creation freed into the glory of the children
• Romans 8:22 — creation groaning like a woman in labor
• Romans 8:38-39 — nothing in creation can separate us
• Romans 8:7 — the mind set on the flesh cannot submit to God
• Romans 9:15 — mercy is god's to give, not a debt owed
• Romans 9:20-21 — the potter and the clay
• Romans 9:5 — the fathers, and the Christ who is over all

Titus

• Titus 1:11 — teachers silencing whole households for gain
• Titus 1:2 — a promise made before the ages began
• Titus 2:13 — the appearing of our great God and Savior

Zechariah

• Zechariah 6:12 — the man called branch will build the temple

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