Scripture Explained
New Beginnings
Every verse in a scripture card deck earns a closer look. Here, each one gets unpacked, what the words meant, how the language works, and what respected voices from Christian history have written about it. Tap a book below to see its verses, then tap a verse to read the full reflection.
Numbers
Numbers 6:26
“The LORD lift up His face toward you, and give you peace.”
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 31:8
“The LORD Himself is who goes before you.”
Job
Job 8:7
“Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.”
Psalms
Psalms 4:8
“In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for You alone, LORD, make me live in safety.”
Psalms 16:11
“You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy.”
Psalms 29:11
“The LORD will give strength to His people. The LORD will bless His people with peace.”
Psalms 30:5
“Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”
Psalms 34:14
“Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.”
Psalms 37:5
“Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in Him, and He will do this:”
Psalms 40:3
“He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.”
Psalms 51:10
“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”
Psalms 118:24
“This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!”
Psalms 119:105
Psalms 121:8
“The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.”
Psalms 126:3
“The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.”
Proverbs
Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.”
Proverbs 4:18
“But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.”
Proverbs 16:3
“Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.”
Isaiah
Isaiah 26:3
“You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in You.”
Isaiah 33:2
“LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for You.”
Isaiah 40:31
“But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength.”
Isaiah 42:9
“Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things.”
Isaiah 43:19
“Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now.”
Isaiah 65:17
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth.”
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”
Lamentations
Lamentations 3:22-23
“It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because His mercies don’t fail. They are new every morning.”
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36:26
“I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”
Micah
Micah 7:8
“Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.”
Matthew
Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.”
John
John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you.”
Romans
Romans 8:6
“For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.”
Romans 12:2
“Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 15:13
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.”
2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away.”
Colossians
Colossians 3:10
“And have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator.”
Colossians 3:15
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.”
2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians 3:16
“Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times in all ways.”
Hebrews
Hebrews 12:11
“All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
James
James 1:5
“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
Revelation
Revelation 21:5
“He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.””
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