Patterns In The Bible

  • Psalm 124

    1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—
    let Israel now say—
    2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side
    when people rose up against us,

    3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,
    when their anger was kindled against us;

    4 then the flood would have swept us away,

    the torrent would have gone over us;

    5 then over us would have gone
    the raging waters.

    6 Blessed be the Lord,
    who has not given us
    as prey to their teeth!

    7 We have escaped like a bird
    from the snare of the fowlers;
    the snare is broken,
    and we have escaped!
    8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.

  • Romans 3: 21-26

    21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—

    22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.

    For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by His grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

    25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.

    This was to show God’s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show His righteousness at the present time, so that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

  • Psalm 1

    1 Blessed is the man
    who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
    nor stands in the way of sinners,
    nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
    2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on His law he meditates day and night.

    3 He is like a tree
    planted by streams of water
    that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its leaf does not wither.
    In all that he does, he prospers.

    4 The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

    5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
    6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

  • Psalm 2

    1 Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?
    2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
    and the rulers take counsel together,
    against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
    3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
    and cast away their cords from us.”

    [God speaks]

    4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.
    5 Then He will speak to them in His wrath,
    and terrify them in His fury, saying,
    6 “As for me, I have set my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

    [God’s Son speaks]

    7 I will tell of the decree:
    The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
    today I have begotten you.
    8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and the ends of the earth your possession.
    9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

    10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
    be warned, O rulers of the earth.
    11 Serve the Lord with fear,
    and rejoice with trembling.
    12 Kiss the Son,
    lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.
    Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

  • 1 John 4: 1-6

    4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,

    which you heard was coming

    and now is in the world already.

    4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

    6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us.

    By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

  • 诗篇 122

    大卫朝圣之歌

    1 人对我说：“我们到耶和华的殿那里去”，
    我就欢喜。

    2 耶路撒冷啊！
    我们的脚正站在你的门内。
    3 耶路撒冷被建造，
    好象一座结构完整的城巿。
    4 众支派，就是耶和华的支派，
    都上那里去；
    照着以色列的定例，
    称颂耶和华的名。

    5 因为在那里设有审判的宝座，
    就是大卫家的宝座。

    6 你们要为耶路撒冷求平安，说：
    “耶路撒冷啊！愿爱你的人都亨通。
    7 愿你的城墙内有平安，
    愿你的宫殿中有安稳。”
    8 为了我的兄弟和朋友的缘故，
    我要说：“愿你中间有平安。”

    9 为了耶和华我们　神的殿的缘故，
    我要为你求福乐。

  • 1 John 4: 7-21

    4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us,

    that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12 No one has ever seen God;

    if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

    13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

    16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

    God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

  • Mark 4: 35-41

    4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.

    And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”

    39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

    40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”

    41 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

  • Psalm 120

    A Song of Ascents.

    1 In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and He answered me.

    2 Deliver me, O Lord,
    from lying lips,
    from a deceitful tongue.
    3 What shall be given to you,
    and what more shall be done to you,
    you deceitful tongue?
    4 A warrior’s sharp arrows,
    with glowing coals of the broom tree!

    5 Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
    that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
    6 Too long have I had my dwelling
    among those who hate peace.

    7 I am for peace,
    but when I speak,
    they are for war!

  • Psalm 121

    A Song of Ascents.

    1 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
    From where does my help come?

    2 My help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.

    3 He will not let your foot be moved;

    He who keeps you will not slumber.

    4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

    5 The Lord is your keeper;

    the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

    6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

    7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    He will keep your life.
    8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.