GOD in the Old Testament - Part 18

Genesis 32:1-2

    Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When he saw them, he said, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim (meaning two camps).

 

Genesis 32:7-12  

    In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds of cattle as well. He thought, "If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape."

    Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, 'Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,' I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' " 

 

Genesis 32:24-30  

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."

    But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

    So the man asked him, "What is your name?"

    "Jacob," he answered.

    Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob (meaning "he grasps the heel" a Hebrew idiom for "he deceives."), but Israel (probably means "he struggles with God."), because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome."

    Jacob said, "Please tell me your name."

    But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

    So Jacob called the place Peniel (meaning "face of God"), saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."  (see all Genesis 32) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 17

Genesis 31:4-7

    So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. He said to them, "I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. You know that I've worked for your father with all my strength, yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me."

 

Genesis 31:11-13  

"The angel of God said to me in a dream, 'Jacob.' I answered, 'Here I am.' And he said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.' " 

 

Genesis 31:15-16  

"Does he not regard us (Leah and Rachel) as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you." 

 

Genesis 31:24  

Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad." 

 

Genesis 31:29  

"I (Laban) have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.' " 

 

Genesis 31:41-42  

"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you surely would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you."

 

Genesis 31:50  

"If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me." 

 

Genesis 31:53  

"May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." 

    So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.  (see all Genesis 31) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 16

Genesis 30:1-7

    When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!"

    Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

    Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her."

    So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan. (meaning "he has vindicated")

    Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 

 

Genesis 30:16-20  

    So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

    God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband." So she named him Issachar. (meaning "reward")

    Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. Then Leah said, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. (meaning "honor")

 

Genesis 30:22-24  

    Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." And she named him Joseph, (meaning "may he add") and said, "May the LORD add to me another son."  (see all Genesis 30) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 15

Genesis 28:1-4 

    So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Them he commanded him: "Do not marry a Canaanite woman. Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."

 

Genesis 28:10-17  

    Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

    When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it." He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."

 

Genesis 28:20-22  

    Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I may return safely to my father's household, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."  (see all Genesis 28 - 29) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 14

Genesis 26:23-25 

    From there he went up to Beersheba. That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

    Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.   (see all Genesis 26)

 

Genesis 27:19-23  

    Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing."

    Isaac asked his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?"

    "The LORD your God gave me success," he replied.

    Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not." 

    Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. 

 

Genesis 27:26-29  

Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here, my son, and kiss me." 

    So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

    "Ah, the smell of my son

        is like the smell of a field

        that the LORD has blessed.

    May God give you heaven's dew

        and earth's richness--

        an abundance of grain and new wine.

    May nations serve you

        and peoples bow down to you.

    Be lord over your brothers,

        and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.

    May those who curse you be cursed

        and those who bless you be blessed."

        (see all Genesis 26-27) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 13

Genesis 24:1-4 

    Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all he had, "Put your hand under my thigh. I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac."

 

Genesis 24:6-7  

    "Make sure that you do not take my son back there," Abraham said. "The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father's household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'--he will send an angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there." 

 

Genesis 24:12-14  

    Then he prayed, "LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,' and she says, "Drink, and I'll water your camels too'--let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 

 

Genesis 24:26-27  

    Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, saying, "Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on a journey to the house of my master's relatives."

 

Genesis 24:42  

    "When I came to the spring today, I said, 'LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come."  

 

Genesis 24:47-48  

    "I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?'

    "She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.'

    "Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms; and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son."  (see all Genesis 24) 

 

Genesis 25:11  

After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.  (see all Genesis 25)   

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 12

Genesis 21:22-24 

    At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do. Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you."

    Abraham said, "I swear it."

 

Genesis 21:31-34  

    So that place was called Beersheba, because the two men swore an oath there.

    After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Eternal God. And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.  (see Genesis 21:22-34)

 

Genesis 22:1-3  

    Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"

    "Here I am," he replied.

    Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love--Isaac--and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on the mountain I will show you." 

    Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 

 

Genesis 22:8-12  

    Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

    When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"

    "Here I am," he replied.

    "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."  

(see all Genesis 22-23) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 11

Genesis 21:1-7 

    Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 

    Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." 

 

Genesis 21:11-13  

    The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. (see verses 8-10) But God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to what Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring." 

 

Genesis 21:17-21  

    God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation." 

    Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.  

(see Genesis 21:1-21) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 10

Genesis 20:1-7 

    Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

    But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman."

    Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, "Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and didn't she also say, 'He is my brother'? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands."

    Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die."

 

Genesis 20:11-13  

And Abimelek asked Abraham, "What was your reason for doing this?" 

    Abraham replied, "I said to myself, 'There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.' Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, 'This is how you can show your love for me: Everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother." ' " 

 

Genesis 20:17-18  

    Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife Sarah.  (see all Genesis 20) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 9

Genesis 17:7-9

"I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."

    Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come."  (see Genesis 17:7-14) 

 

Genesis 17:15-16  

    God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

 

Genesis 17:18-23  

And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"

    Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." When he had finished speaking to Abraham, God went up from him.

    On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.  (see Genesis 17:18-27)

 

Genesis 19:27-29  

    Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. 

    So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.  (see all Genesis 18-29)  

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 8

Genesis 14:18-20 

    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram saying,

    "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

        Creator of heaven and earth.

    And praise be to God Most High,

        who delivered your enemies into your hands."

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

 

Genesis 14:21-23  

    The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself."

     But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, 'I made Abram rich'.  

(see all Genesis 14)

 

Genesis 16:13-16  

    She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me." That is why the well is called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

    So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.  (see all Genesis 16)

 

Genesis 17:1-5  

    When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

    Abram fell face down, and God said to him, "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations."  (see Genesis 17:1-6) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 7

Genesis 8:1  

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.  (see Genesis 8:1-14)

 

Genesis 8:15-17  

    Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."  (see Genesis 8:15-22) 

 

Genesis 9:1  

    Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth."  

(see Genesis 9:1-3)

 

Genesis 9:6  

    "Whoever sheds human blood,

        by humans shall their blood be shed;

    for in the image of God

        has God made mankind."  (see Genesis 9:4-7)

 

Genesis 9:8-11  

    Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." 

 

Genesis 9:12-13  

    And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and earth."

 

Genesis 9:16  

"Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."  (see Genesis 9:8-17)

 

Genesis 9:26-27  

    He also said,

    "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem!

        May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

    May God extend Japheth's territory;

        may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,

    and may Canaan be the slave Japheth."  

    (see Genesis 9:18-29)

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 6

Genesis 6:1-4 

    When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the Sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the Sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.  (see Genesis 6:1-8)

 

Genesis 6:8-13  

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

    This is the account of Noah and his family.

    Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

    Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."  (see Genesis 6:8-21)

 

Genesis 6:22-7:1  

    Noah did everything just as God commanded him. 

    The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation."

 

Genesis 7:8-9  

Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

 

Genesis 7:16  

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.  (see all Genesis 7) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 5

Genesis 3:21-24  

    The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

Genesis 4:25-26  

    Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in the place of Abel, since Cain killed him." Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.

    At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.  (see all Genesis 4)

 

Genesis 5:1-2  

    This is the written account of Adam's family line.

    When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created.

 

Genesis 5:21-24  

    When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.  (see all Genesis 5) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 4

Genesis 2:15-22

    The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."

    The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

    Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

    But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  (see Genesis 2:15-25)

 

Genesis 3:1-5  

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

    The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you rill die.' "

    "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

 

Genesis 3:8-9  

    Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"  (see Genesis 3:1-12) 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 3

Genesis 1:28 - 2:1-9  

    God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

    Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground--everything that has breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

    God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning--the sixth day. 

 

    Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

 

By the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 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.

 

    This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

 

    Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

 

    Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 2

Genesis 1:14-19

And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.

 

Genesis 1:20-23  

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.

 

Genesis 1:24-27  

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

    Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

    So God created mankind in his own image,

        in the image of God he created them;

        male and female he created them.

  

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GOD in the Old Testament - Part 1

Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 

Genesis 1:3-5  

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day.

 

Genesis 1:6-8  

And God said, "Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water." So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. And there was evening, and there was morning--the second day.

 

Genesis 1:9-13  

And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear."  And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the third day. 

 

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THE HOLY SPIRIT in the New Testament - Revelation Part 2

REVELATION (continued)

 

Revelation 14:13

    Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." 

    "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."

Revelation 19:9-10  

    Then the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" and he added, "These are the true words of God."

    At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus." 

Revelation 21:9-10  

    One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.  (see all Revelation 21)

Revelation 22:17  

    The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" and let the one who hears say, "Come!" Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.  

(see all Revelation 22) 

 

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THE HOLY SPIRIT in the New Testament - Revelation Part 1

REVELATION

 

Revelation 1:10-11

On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."

Revelation 2:11  

    "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death."

Revelation 2:17  

    "Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it."

Revelation 2:26-29  

    "To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations--that one 'will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery' (Psalm 2:9)--just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give that one the morning star. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches." 

Revelation 3:5-6  

"The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

Revelation 3:12-13  

"The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches." 

Revelation 3:21-22  

    "To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches." 

 

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THE HOLY SPIRIT in the New Testament - the Letters Part 12

1 JOHN

 

1 John 3:23-24

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God's commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.  (see all 1 John 3)

1 John 4:1-6  

    Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

1 John 4:13-14  

    This is how we know that we live in him and he in us:  He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.  (see all 1 John 4)

1 John 5:6-8  

    This is the one who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.  (see all 1 John 5)

 

JUDE 

 

Jude 1:20-21  

    But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.  (see all Jude) 

 

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