Psalm 49:15?The Voice (VOICE) 15?But God will reach into the grave and save my life from its power. ????He will fetch me and take me into His eternal house. What sends us to the grave? Romans 6:23 and other places in scripture tell us death is a natural outcome?we can expect when we only live […]

Matthew 6:7-15?New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 7??When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8?Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9??Pray then in this way: Our […]

Philippians 3:7-11?New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 7?Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8?More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard […]

Romans 5:12-19?New Living Translation (NLT) Adam and Christ Contrasted 12?When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam?s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 13?Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 14?Still, everyone […]

Luke 5:27-32?English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus Calls Levi 27?After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ?Follow me.?28?And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29?And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company […]

2 Corinthians 4:7-12?English Standard Version (ESV) Treasure in Jars of Clay 7?But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8?We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9?persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but […]