The Bible

Plain Words With the Careless

Luke 8:28

… I invite you to find in the Word of God a commandment against sober, solid, pure, holy joy! I will find you words like these, "Rejoice in the …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… The first two verbs must be translated as imperatives, as in the margin of the English Bible. ("Look on the right hand, and see.") The right hand is …

The Saviour's Many Crowns

Revelation 19:12

… ever thought this over?—“I, the blackest of sinners, have despised him; his Bible I have left unread; his blood I have trampled under foot, and yet he …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… He does not want to do much; he reads in the Bible that there is a finished righteousness, that the covenant of grace is complete. Have you never …

Forgiveness

Isaiah 43:25

… That blessed Bible lay unread; these knees refused to bend in prayer, and my eyes looked on vanity. Has he not pardoned? Has he not forgiven? Yes. Then …

The Resurrection of the Dead

Acts 24:15

… In fact, Holy Scripture is so full of this doctrine that I marvel, brethren, that we should so soon have departed from the stedfastness of our faith, and …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… I am very careful not to get up of a morning without saying a form of prayer; I sometimes read my Bible; I subscribe to many charities. Ah …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… goodness of the Lord, even as some of us may have an old Bible, or a knife, or a chair which are connected with memorable events of our …

Fearing and Trusting—trusting and Not Fearing

Psalm 56:3

… true God, He cannot destroy the soul that trusts in Christ! Unless this Bible is one great lie from beginning to end, the soul that trusts in Christ …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… He goes to his Bible—not as often as he did, nor yet so solemnly as he did—but the Book does not speak to him. God answers …

Christ in the Covenant

Isaiah 49:8

… There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… This seems to have been a period of much religious heart-searching, in which the ordinances of churches were tried by the Word of God, and men were …

False Professors Solemnly Warned

Philippians 3:18-19

… The minister stepped into the room with the Bible in his hand to do as he was accustomed—to read a chapter and to pray with the poor …

The Enchanted Ground

… If the minister should smite his fist ecclesiastic upon the Bible, or enliven his faculties with a pinch of snuff, or even use his pocket handkerchief, the people …

Joseph Attacked by the Archers

Genesis 49:23

… of Jacob. “ Now, wherever you read of the God of Jacob in the Bible, you may know that that respects God’s covenant with Jacob. Ah! I love …

Paul's Sermon Before Felix

Acts 24:25

… I admire John Knox for going, Bible in hand, to Queen Mary, and sternly upbraiding her. I admit I do not exactly love the way in which he …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… A reference Bible is the best commentator in the world; and the most heavenly exposition is the searching out of kindred, texts, and comparing their meaning. “They were …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… I love them all; I love all holy Scripture, which is my consolation and my life. But this Psalm is nearest my heart, and I have a peculiar …

The Great Need—Or, The Great Salvation

Isaiah 48:18

… It is written in the Bible, "And David's heart smote him." Conscience strikes hard blows. A good conscience has a keen edge and severely cuts those who …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… Six young men were expelled from Oxford for praying, reading the Bible, and talking to poor people about Christ; and these six young men, with many others whom …

Psalm 110

Psalm 110

… For though ordinarily subdivisions of holy Scripture and crumbling of the bread of life be rather a loosing than an expounding of it; yet in such parts of …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… He was put before you, but you hid, as it were, your faces from Him! Although the Bible was in your house, bearing witness to Jesus Christ, you …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… Never let us find jests in the words of Scripture, or make amusement out of holy things, lest we be guilty of forgetting the Lord and his cause …

Waiting Only Upon God

Psalm 62:6

… As sure as the Bible is true he will not leave you. Shall a father leave his children to die? No, the granaries of earth have no key …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… When it is said (Joh 15:25) that the enemies of Jesus hated him without a cause, and this is looked upon as the fulfilment of Scripture, the …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… They were reading the Bible. One of them found Christ while reading the Scriptures, and he believed with a true evangelical faith. The other one was timid, and …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… forgiven; once I thought I was good, but I have been reading the Bible, and I find that my heart is ‘deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked …

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

… even so he that will enter into the joys of God, and rest upon his holy mountain, must, as the Scripture speaks, put off the old man and …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… We have felt the weight of the hand of an angry God! We know what it is to read the Bible and not find a single promise in …

Two Choice Benedictions

Numbers 6:23-27

… After that, perhaps, he may sometimes think that God the Father has no love towards him, but as he begins to read his Bible and to experience more …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… But when the Hottentot went to the place at Cape Town where he heard the Bible read, he listened to the story of the Pharisee. And as he …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… Or else you took up some stray book, or you happened to light on a torn-out leaf of the Bible and there, Sovereign Grace met with you …

An Earnest Entreaty

Psalm 2:12

… to think of everything but of his God—to read everything but his Bible—to feel the influence of everything but the love of Christ, and to see …

Bright Prospects for Young Believers

Malachi 4:2

… is Jehovah that I should obey His voice?" Now, for such people, the Bible contains no blessing—why should it when they reject both it and the God …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… If we have not exercised ourselves in the word of God, we shall not preach with the fervour and grace of the man who has fed upon the …

Secret Sins

Psalm 19:12

… bow themselves—tell God there is no God now; now laugh at the Bible; now scoff at the minister. Why men, what is the matter with you? Why …

God's King Magnified

Psalm 132:18

… It is very strange that the very press with which Voltaire printed his works is now used in Geneva to print the Bible—and that while Voltaire, himself …

Circumcision and Uncircumcision

Galatians 5:6

… the faith which works by love, you may be as orthodox as the Bible, itself, and you may be sound in theology as the Holy Spirit—and yet …

Dilemma and Deliverance

Psalm 9:10

… might fall from grace and perish everlastingly, we might, indeed, shut up our Bible in despair. To what purpose would my preaching be—the preaching of a rickety …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… Turn or burn—it is the Bible’s only alternative. If thou repentest, the gate of mercy stands wide open. Only the Spirit of God bring thee on …