Compass Point

‘Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lᴏʀᴅ:  though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’ —Isaiah 1:18

‘And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.’ —Acts 7:56

‘Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.’ —Micah 3:4

‘To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.’ —Job 6:14

‘Oh clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.’ —Psalm 47:1

‘And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. ‘He said, Bring them hither to me.’ —Matthew 14:17 & 18

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‘All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.’ —Isaiah 53:6

‘For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.’ —Esther 10:3

‘These are the generations of Noah:  Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God’ —Genesis 6:9 ‘And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters’ —Genesis 5:22 ‘By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this tes...

‘And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more’ —1 Thessalonians 4:10

‘And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: ‘… ‘So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading’ —Nehemiah 8:5 & 8

‘Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail:  and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance:  but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.’ —1 Samuel 25:3 ‘Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.’ —Colossians 4:6

‘And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.’ —Luke 4:5

‘Now the Lᴏʀᴅ had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.  And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.’ —Jonah 1:17

‘I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.’ —Psalm 16:7 ‘Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.’ —Psalm 119:24 ‘Without counsel purposes are disappointed:  but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.’ —Proverbs 15:22

‘Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them’ —Ecclesiastes 12:1

‘Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.’ —2 Corinthians 7:12

‘And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.  And the women took the child, and nursed it.’ —Exodus 2:9

‘And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them’ —Luke 24:33

‘And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. ‘And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. ‘And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?’ —Luke 24:30–32

‘And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.’ —Luke 24:27

‘And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? ‘And he said unto them, What things?  And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people’ —Luke 24:18, 19

‘And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.’ —Luke 24:15

‘Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.’ —Romans 12:2 (J. B. Phillips’ translation