Thematic Bible: Spiritual foundation


Thematic Bible



Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.


Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;



O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.

Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.




The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:


For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.


My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.


But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.


Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.


Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.



Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain