Romans 9:1-18 9I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit— 2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake...

Jeremiah 23:9-15 9 Concerning the prophets: My heart is crushed within me,    all my bones shake; I have become like a drunkard,    like one overcome by wine, because of the Lord    and because of his holy words.  10 For the land is full of...

Romans 6:12-23 12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13No longer present your members to sin as instruments* of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought...

Jeremiah 13:1-11 13Thus said the Lord to me, ‘Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth, and put it on your loins, but do not dip it in water.’ 2So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins. 3And the word of...

John 5:30-47 30 ‘I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgement is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32There is another who testifies...

Romans 2:25-3:18 25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.26So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be...

Jeremiah 5:1-9 5Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,    look around and take note! Search its squares and see    if you can find one person who acts justly    and seeks truth— so that I may pardon Jerusalem.*  2 Although they say, ‘As...

John 4:43-54 43 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in the prophet’s own country).45When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen...

Romans 1:16-25 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written,...

Jeremiah 2:1-13 2The word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth,    your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness,    in a land not sown. ...