Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Beloved children are called to imitate God through a life of love.
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Deuteronomy1 verses →
Anonymous. Largely a farewell address placed in Moses' mouth by a narrator who goes on to describe his death.
Joshua1 verses →
Anonymous. Tells Joshua's story in the third person.
Psalms6 verses →
Many hands over centuries. Superscriptions assign a number to David; those are ancient editorial notes, not signatures.
Proverbs3 verses →
A collection headed as Solomon's, which elsewhere names other compilers.
Ecclesiastes1 verses →
Written in the voice of 'the Preacher, the son of David' — a role rather than a name.
Isaiah2 verses →
Spans centuries of material and has long been read as the work of more than one hand.
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Anonymous. Tradition assigns it to Jeremiah; the text does not.
New Testament
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Anonymous. The name is a second-century attribution.
John3 verses →
Anonymous. Names its own source only as 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'.
Paul's letters13 verses →
Named by the text and widely accepted — the clearest authorship in the Bible. Several letters bearing his name are disputed and are marked as such.
James1 verses →
Names its author only as James, a very common name. Which James is disputed.
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Names Peter. Its polished Greek has made that contested since antiquity.
Revelation1 verses →
Names its author as John. Which John has been disputed since the third century.
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View all filters →Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Israel's song after deliverance celebrates God as strength and salvation.
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Paul describes freedom as a calling to serve one another through love.
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Paul describes freedom as a calling to serve one another through love.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Paul describes freedom as a calling to serve one another through love.
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
Paul urges honest attention to one's own work and using opportunities to do good.
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
Paul urges honest attention to one's own work and using opportunities to do good.
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
Hagar, alone in the wilderness, responds to being seen by God.
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Readers who have endured hardship are encouraged to maintain confidence and patience.
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Readers who have endured hardship are encouraged to maintain confidence and patience.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
The chapter opens by describing faith in relation to what is hoped for and unseen.
“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.
A call to return is followed by a promise of freely given love and restoration.