Category Archives: hope

the warrior who fights for Jacob

Isaiah 49:19-26 19 Now you have been laid waste and made desolate and your land ruined, but soon you will be crowded again, and those who had devoured you will be gone far away. 20 You will hear again your … Continue reading

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inspired future

Isaiah 44:1-5 1 “Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!” 2 This is what Yahveh, the one who made you, says– the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: “Don’t be afraid, my servant … Continue reading

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what the wicked do not see

Isaiah 26:7-11 7 The road the righteous take is a straight path; a level path for the righteous that you make level. 8 Without doubt we wait for you on the path that you decided for us, Yahveh, because your … Continue reading

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the song of the prostitute

Isaiah 23:12-18 12 And he said, “You will not keep on gloating, crushed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Get up, cross through Cyprus! There will be no rest for you even there.” 13 Look, the land of the Chaldeans! It … Continue reading

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Galilee in the future

Isaiah 9:1-7[1] 1 Because there is no gloom for that one people worried about. Like the time he ignored the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea … Continue reading

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already glorified

Romans 8:31-39 31 What then should we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Without a doubt, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how … Continue reading

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the next Adam

Romans 5:12-17 12 Because of this, in the same way that sin entered the world through one man and death entered as a consequence of that sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned– 13 because before … Continue reading

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what others think

Matthew 26:57-68 57 Then those who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled. 58 And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the … Continue reading

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prisoners of hope

Matthew 21:1-9 1 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village in front of you, and soon you will find a donkey tied, … Continue reading

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all the difference

Matthew 13:51-52 51 Jesus asked “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” 52 And he said to them, “Because of this, every scribe who has been discipled for the kingdom from the sky is like a … Continue reading

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