Compass Point

‘Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ’ —1 Peter 1:13

‘God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.’ —James 1:12 (NLT)

‘For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?’ —Mark 8:36

‘When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished:  and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.’ —John 19:30

‘But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God’ —Hebrews 10:12

‘For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’ —2 Corinthians 6:2

‘But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.’ —1 Corinthians 8:6

‘And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’ —John 1:14 ‘For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’ —2 Corinthians 5:21

‘For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.’ —Colossians 2:9 ‘The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.’ —John 10:10

‘Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.’ —Job 22:21 ‘ And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.’ —Colossians 1:20

‘Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.’ —Romans 10:9

‘Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.’ —John 19:41 ‘For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.’ —Matthew 24:5

‘Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.’ —Matthew 26:38 ‘And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.’ —Luke 22:44

‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ —Genesis 3:15

‘And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.’ —Genesis 2:9 ‘Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned’ —Romans 5:12

‘And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones:  and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.’ —Isaiah 58:11

‘Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.’ —Daniel 6:10

‘I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.’ —Revelation 2:9

‘I am convinced that the Bible is a book —indeed, the Book— for today.’ —John Stott

‘As for God, his way is perfect:  the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.’ —Psalm 18:30

‘And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.’ —2 Kings 19:3 ‘Then they said one to another, We do not well:  this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore co...

‘Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.’ —2 Timothy 2:9

‘O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:  the earth is full of thy riches.’ —Psalm 104:24

‘But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.’ —Luke 24:16 ‘So they ran both together:  and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.’ —John 20:4

‘For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit’ —1 Peter 3:18