“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 6:33
BibleGateway: Psalm 51 ESV Text: Psalm 51 Psalm 51 (Listen) Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 51:1 Have mercy on me,1 O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my… In the aftermath of his sin with Bathsheba, David pleads to the Lord for a clean heart and a right spirit. This is the fourth of the seven “penitential psalms.”
BibleGateway: 1 John 3:1-3 ESV Text: 1 John 3:1-3 1 John 3:1–3 (Listen) 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we… By faith in the risen Christ, we become children of God. What an exalted status!
BibleGateway: Acts 2:42-47 ESV Text: Acts 2:42-47 Acts 2:42–47 (Listen) The Fellowship of the Believers 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And… Let us, like the early Christians, continue daily in doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers.
BibleGateway: John 10:11-16 ESV Text: John 10:11-16 John 10:11–16 (Listen) 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd,… Jesus is an unimaginably good Shepherd—One willing even to give His life for His sheep.
BibleGateway: 2 Peter 2:21-25 ESV Text: 2 Peter 2:21-25 2 Peter 2:21–22 (Listen) 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn… Like straying sheep, we had all wandered far from God. But now, in faith, we have returned to our Shepherd.
BibleGateway: Psalm 23:1-6 ESV Text: Psalm 23:1-6 Psalm 23 (Listen) The Lord Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He… Those who graze in the pleasant pasture of God’s Word will find that goodness and mercy follow them always.
BibleGateway: Ezekiel 34:11-16 ESV Text: Ezekiel 34:11-16 Ezekiel 34:11–16 (Listen) The Lord God Will Seek Them Out 11 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek… Even in the darkest days of Israel’s apostasy, God promised to gather the scattered sheep of His flock.
BibleGateway: Acts 5:29-42 ESV Text: Acts 5:29-42 Acts 5:29–42 (Listen) 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging… “God raised up Jesus Whom you murdered.” The apostles spoke truth to the powerful Jewish council in Jerusalem.
BibleGateway: Acts 5:12-28 ESV Text: Acts 5:12-28 Acts 5:12–28 (Listen) Many Signs and Wonders Done 12 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were… The apostles were commanded by God to “speak to the people all the words of this life.” So are we.
BibleGateway: Psalm 33:1-22 ESV Text: Psalm 33:1-22 Psalm 33 (Listen) The Steadfast Love of the Lord 33:1 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.2 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make… “Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous!” Believers are righteous by faith in their resurrected Lord.
BibleGateway: John 20:24-31 ESV Text: John 20:24-31 John 20:24–31 (Listen) Jesus and Thomas 24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin,1 was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him,… Thomas demanded visible proof of the resurrection, but blessed are those who, not seeing, yet believe.
