Patterns In The Bible

  • 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.

  • Psalm 122

    A Song of Ascents. Of David.

    1 I was glad when they said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

    2 Our feet have been standing
    within your gates, O Jerusalem!
    3 Jerusalem—built as a city
    that is bound firmly together,
    4 to which the tribes go up,
    the tribes of the Lord,
    as was decreed for Israel,
    to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

    5 There thrones for judgement were set,
    the thrones of the house of David.

    6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
    “May they be secure who love you!
    7 Peace be within your walls
    and security within your towers!”
    8 For my brothers and companions’ sake
    I will say, “Peace be within you!”

    9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your good.

  • Psalm 150

    [What]

    Praise the Lord!

    [Where]

    Praise God in His sanctuary;
    praise Him in His mighty heavens!

    [Why]

    2 Praise Him for His mighty deeds;
    praise Him according to His excellent greatness!

    [How]

    3 Praise Him with trumpet sound;
    praise Him with lute and harp!
    4 Praise Him with tambourine and dance;
    praise Him with strings and pipe!
    5 Praise Him with sounding cymbals;
    praise Him with loud clashing cymbals!

    [Who]

    6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
    Praise the Lord!

  • 2 Peter 1: 1-11

    1:1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

    To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

    2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

    3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,

    through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence,

    4 by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

    5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

    8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

    10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Peter 1: 12-21

    1:12 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

    13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body,

    to stir you up by way of reminder,

    14 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

    15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

    16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

    17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory,

    “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”

    18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.

    19 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.