Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 3:8  (New Living Translation) Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones. In this […]

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Luke 3:5 (New Living Translation) The valleys will be filled, and the mountains and hills made level. The curves will be straightened, and the rough places made smooth. These verses from Luke’s Gospel are about John the Baptizer. The words are quoted from the prophet Isaiah describing how John would prepare the way for Jesus. […]

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Leviticus 19:31 (New Living Translation) Do not defile yourselves by turning to mediums or to those who consult the spirits of the dead. I am the Lord your God. By this verse, I infer that there were people who could consult the spirits of the dead. I am glad that in our (post or whatever adjective […]

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Deuteronomy 4:34 (New Living Translation) Has any other god dared to take a nation for himself out of another nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, a strong hand, a powerful arm, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes. Jehovah […]

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Deuteronomy 2:14-15 (New Living Translation) 14 “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen. 15 The Lord struck them down until they had all […]

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Numbers 22:4-8 (New Living Translation) 4 The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!” So Balak, king of Moab, 5 sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethornear the Euphrates River. […]

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Deuteronomy 1:16-17  (New Living Translation) 16 “At that time I instructed the judges, ‘You must hear the cases of your fellow Israelites and the foreigners living among you. Be perfectly fair in your decisions 17 and impartial in your judgments. Hear the cases of those who are poor as well as those who are rich. […]

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Numbers 16:12-14 (New Living Translation) 12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We refuse to come before you! 13 Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like […]

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Leviticus 7:21 (New Living Translation) If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the Lord, you will be cut off from the community. Ever been cut off from a church? No big […]

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