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• Genesis 1:27

  So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  The opening chapter of Genesis, describing the creation of humanity. In the surrounding cultures the phrase "image of a god" was normally reserved for a king, so applying it to every person, male and female, was a striking claim.

• Genesis 3:9

  But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

  God's first question to Adam after he and Eve eat the forbidden fruit and hide. He is not asking for information; the point is that God starts the conversation rather than waiting to be found.

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

  Joseph says this to the brothers who sold him into slavery, years later, when they are at his mercy. He does not call what they did good, and he does not tell them it was fine.

• Exodus 14:14

  The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.

  Moses says this at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's army closing in. It refers to one specific rescue rather than a general rule about staying passive, and two verses later God tells Moses to get the people moving.

• Exodus 34:6

  Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

  God's own description of himself, given to Moses on Sinai after Israel has worshiped the golden calf. Later writers quote this line back to God more than any other sentence in the Hebrew Bible.

• Leviticus 19:18

  Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

  Buried in a chapter of laws about harvests, wages and courts. Jesus later names it as the second greatest commandment, and Paul says the whole law is summed up in it.

• Numbers 6:24-26

  ‘May the LORD bless you and keep you; may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’

  The blessing Aaron and his sons were told to speak over Israel. A silver amulet found in Jerusalem carries part of it, making this one of the oldest surviving fragments of biblical text.

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

  Part of the Shema, the sentence observant Jews have recited daily for centuries. Jesus quotes it as the greatest commandment when he is asked to rank the law.

• Deuteronomy 8:3

  He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

  Moses, looking back on forty years in the wilderness, explains why the food came a day at a time. Jesus quotes this line in the desert when he is hungry and tempted.

• Deuteronomy 31:6

  Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.

  Moses' farewell to Israel before they cross into a land he will not enter. He is handing over leadership and admitting he will not be there.

• Joshua 1:9

  Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

  God's commission to Joshua as he takes command of an army. It is a specific charge to one man before a military campaign, which is worth knowing before it is used as a slogan for any hard week.

• Judges 21:25

  In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

  The last line of Judges, a book that gets steadily more violent from start to finish. The narrator is not praising anyone's independence; he is explaining how the disaster in the preceding chapters happened.

• Ruth 1:16

  But Ruth replied: Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

  Often read at weddings, though it is not spoken to a husband. Ruth, a Moabite widow, says it to Naomi, her Israelite mother-in-law, while refusing to go back to her own family.

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  But Samuel declared: Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

  Samuel confronts King Saul, who kept the best livestock from a battle and offered to sacrifice it. The prophet's answer is that the offering does not cover the disobedience it came from.

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

  God corrects Samuel, who is about to anoint the tallest and most impressive of Jesse's sons as king. The one eventually chosen is the youngest, out with the sheep.

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

  David refuses a free threshing floor offered to him for an altar and insists on paying. The line is about what a gift costs the giver, not about generosity in general.

• 1 Kings 19:12

  After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.

  Elijah has fled into the wilderness after a threat on his life, and God tells him to stand on the mountain. Wind, earthquake and fire pass by first, and the scene is built around where God is not.

• 2 Kings 6:16

  “Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

  Elisha's answer to a servant who has woken up to find an enemy army surrounding the city. The prophet is not denying that the army is there.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

  The setting is a public reading of the law in Jerusalem, and the crowd is weeping because they can hear how far they have drifted. The instruction to feast is given to people who feel least like celebrating.

• Esther 4:14

  For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your fathers house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

  Mordecai's message to Esther, urging her to risk her life by approaching the king uninvited. God is never mentioned by name anywhere in the book of Esther, including here.

• Job 1:21

  saying: “Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

  Job says this immediately after losing his children and his livelihood in a single day. The book records his words honestly; it does not present every sentence he speaks in grief as settled doctrine.

• Job 2:13

  Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

  Job's three friends sit with him on the ground for a week without speaking. This is the last thing they do well, and everything they say afterward makes it worse.

• Job 4:7

  Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

  Spoken by Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, and included here on purpose. It is the argument that suffering proves guilt, and by the end of the book God tells Eliphaz he has not spoken rightly.

• Job 38:4

  Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

  After thirty-seven chapters of argument about why Job is suffering, God finally answers, and answers with questions. Job never receives the explanation the reader has been waiting for.

• Psalm 8:4

  what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

  A psalm about the night sky, asking why anything so large would take notice of anything so small. The question is left open rather than answered.

• Psalm 13:1

  How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

  The opening of a lament, one of roughly a third of the psalms that begin in complaint. Nothing in the collection treats this way of speaking to God as out of order.

• Psalm 19:1

  The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

  The first half of a psalm about two things that reveal God: the sky and the law. Both are described as speech.

• Psalm 22:1

  My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

  The line Jesus quotes from the cross, taken from a psalm attributed to David. Anyone who heard it in the first century would have known the whole psalm, which moves from abandonment to praise without pretending the abandonment was not real.

• Psalm 23:4

  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

  From the best known psalm in the collection, written in the voice of a sheep about its shepherd. The valley is walked through, not avoided.

• Psalm 27:1

  The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

  A psalm that swings between confidence and pleading within a few verses. This opening line is the confident end of that range, not the whole picture.

• Psalm 34:18

  The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

  From a psalm of thanksgiving after an escape. The claim is about God's nearness rather than about the trouble ending.

• Psalm 37:4

  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

  Frequently read as a promise that God will hand over whatever you want. The psalm is about not envying people who prosper by doing wrong, and the desires in view are the ones that change when you delight in God.

• Psalm 46:1

  God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

  Cities fall and mountains slide into the sea in the verses that follow. The refuge is claimed in the middle of that rather than in its absence.

• Psalm 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  From David's confession after the prophet Nathan confronts him over Bathsheba and the killing of her husband. He asks to be remade rather than excused.

• Psalm 62:8

  Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

  Addressed to a congregation rather than to God. The instruction is to say the whole thing out loud, not to arrive composed.

• Psalm 73:26

  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  The turn in a psalm that spends its first half openly envying people who do wrong and get away with it. The writer admits the envy before he resolves it.

• Psalm 88:1

  O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

  Psalm 88 is the darkest poem in the collection, and it never resolves. It ends in darkness with no turn toward praise, and it was kept in the book anyway.

• Psalm 90:12

  So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

  From a psalm about how short a human life is measured against God. Counting your days is presented as a route to wisdom rather than to panic.

• Psalm 103:12

  As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

  A psalm of praise listing what God does, with forgiveness at the top of the list. East and west, unlike north and south, never meet.

• Psalm 119:105

  Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

  From the longest chapter in the Bible, an acrostic poem of 176 verses in praise of God's law. A lamp of that era lit the next step, not the whole road.