If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. | If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. |
On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is in God. | My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. |
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I am not afraid; what can flesh do to me? | In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? |
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? | Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? |
For nothing will be impossible with God. | For no word from God will ever fail. |
So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his. | There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. |
Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. | Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. |
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. | No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. |
But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. | But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. |
For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human. | For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus. |
No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. | No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. |
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. | My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. |
Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.” | Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” |
And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. | Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. |
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. | So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. |
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. | Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. |
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. | Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children. |
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. |
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. | This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. |
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. | And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. |
Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. | Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. |
No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one. | When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone. |
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. | Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. |
Yet I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. | But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me. |
These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. | These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. |
Bible verse of the day
God gives the desolate a home to live in;he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a parched land.