Contemplative Bible Reading

Acts 3: 1-5 (New International Version) 1One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2Now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple […]

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1 Kings 1:32-35 (New International Version) 32 King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king, 33 he said to them: “Take your lord’s servants with you and set Solomon my son on my own mule and take him down to Gihon. […]

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Ephesians 4:23 (New Living Translation) Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Ever want a better attitude? Ever want stop thinking bad about people and things and start thinking more positive? If only God would just change my attitude. Come on God, have your Spirit renew my thoughts and attitudes. That is biblical, […]

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Leviticus 12:6-8 (New International Version) 6 ” ‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. 7 He […]

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1 Timothy 2:1-2 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) 1 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, 2 for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. I am concentrating on the last […]

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Jude verse 12 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn – fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots, Jude is writing to Christians […]

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2 Timothy 1:7 (New International Version) For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. This seems like an odd trio: power, love, and self-discipline. From dictionary.com Power: ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something. Love: affectionate concern for the […]

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2 Peter 3:3 (New International Version) First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. This struck me as one of those obvious things. Scoffers will come and they will be scoffing. Well, what else what a scoffer do? (By the way, to […]

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2 Timothy 1:6 (New International Version) For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. What a great phrase – fan into flame. I have a confession to make, a confession of a 50-something year old man acting like […]

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2 Corinthians 7:6 (New International Version) 6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, In this simple little verse, Paul writes of an occasion when he and some other Christians were downcast – another way of writing that they were a depressed. God gave them some comfort. The form of […]

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