Thematic Bible: To believers


Thematic Bible




Keep His statutes and commands, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper and so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”




But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you today,

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.




“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.






But from there, you will search for the Lord your God, and you will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.





You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.




Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.



but He will judge the poor righteously
and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.
He will strike the land
with discipline from His mouth,
and He will kill the wicked
with a command from His lips.

You sinners frustrate the plans of the afflicted,
but the Lord is his refuge.



For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
His own who are prisoners.

For He stands at the right hand of the needy
to save him from those who would condemn him.


For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”



He told them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me. For whoever is least among you—this one is great.”

Though the Lord is exalted,
He takes note of the humble;
but He knows the haughty from a distance.



The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.


For You have been a stronghold for the poor,
a stronghold for the needy person in his distress,
a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat.
When the breath of the violent
is like rain against a wall,




He saves the needy from their sharp words
and from the clutches of the powerful.



For it is contained in Scripture:

Look! I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and honored cornerstone,
and the one who believes in Him
will never be put to shame!


Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.






I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.


“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.


Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.






“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.




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