Contemplative Bible Reading

Ephesians 3:19 (New Living Translation) May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. The love of Christ is too great to understand fully. I try, but if I could understand […]

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Titus 2:11-13 (New Living Translation) 11 For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. 12 And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God, 13 while we look forward with hope to that […]

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Luke 8:46-48 (New Living Translation) 46 But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.” 47 When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had […]

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Isaiah 64:11-12 (English Standard Version) 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins. 12 Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly? The prophet is lamenting the horrible state […]

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Isaiah 59:3 Your hands are the hands of murderers, and your fingers are filthy with sin. (New Living Translation) your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. (English Standard Version) Permit me to mix English translation of this verse from the prophet Isaiah. The prophet is relaying from God how life will be when […]

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Isaiah 32:1-2 (English Standard Version) 1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. 2 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. The […]

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1 Timothy 6:4-5 (English Standard Version) …he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a […]

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Jude 1:24-25a (English Standard Version) 24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord… I don’t stumble often. I mean in a physical sense. I don’t […]

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