Malachi 3:8-18 8 Should a person deceive God? Yet you deceive me. But you say, “How have we deceived you?” With your tenth-part gifts and offerings. 9 You are being cursed with a curse, and you, the entire nation, are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tenth-part to the storage house so there might be…

1 Peter 5:1-11 1    Therefore, I have a request for the elders among you. (I ask this as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and as one who shares in the glory that is about to be revealed.) I urge the elders:  2  Like shepherds, tend the flock of God among…

Matthew 6:19-24 19    “Stop collecting treasures for your own benefit on earth, where moth and rust eat them and where thieves break in and steal them.  20  Instead, collect treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moth and rust don’t eat them and where thieves don’t break in and steal them.  21  Where your treasure…

Acts 3:1-10 1    Peter and John were going up to the temple at three o’clock in the afternoon, the established prayer time.  2  Meanwhile, a man crippled since birth was being carried in. Every day, people would place him at the temple gate known as the Beautiful Gate so he could ask for money…

Romans 5:1-11 1    Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness combined with our faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  2  We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory.  3 But not only…

Micah 6:6-8 6    With what should I approach the LORD and bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings, with year-old calves?  7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with many torrents of oil? Should I give my oldest child for my crime; the…

1 Corinthians 3:1-15 1    Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you like spiritual people but like unspiritual people, like babies in Christ.  2  I gave you milk to drink instead of solid food, because you weren’t up to it yet.  3  Now you are still not up to it because you are still…

Ephesians 3:7-21 7  I became a servant of the gospel because of the grace that God showed me through the exercise of his power.  8    God gave his grace to me, the least of all God’s people, to preach the good news about the immeasurable riches of Christ to the Gentiles.  9  God sent…

Romans 5:12-21 12    So, in the same way that sin entered the world through one person, and death came through sin, so death spread to all human beings with the result that all sinned.  13  Although sin was in the world, since there was no Law, it wasn’t taken into account until the Law…

Matthew 6:5-15 5    “When you pray, don’t be like hypocrites. They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people will see them. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get.  6 But when you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your…

John 10:1-18 1    I assure you that whoever doesn’t enter into the sheep pen through the gate but climbs over the wall is a thief and an outlaw.  2  The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.  3  The guard at the gate opens the gate for him, and…

Isaiah 64:1-6 1    wIf only you would tear open the heavens and come down! Mountains would quake before you 2 like fire igniting brushwood or making water boil. If you would make your name known to your enemies, the nations would tremble in your presence. 3    When you accomplished wonders beyond all our…