Poets & Saints

Scripture   Hebrews 11:1–3 (NRSV)    Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,   the conviction of things not seen.   Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval.   By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God,   so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. Refrain   Even...

Scripture   Psalm 42:1–3 (NRSV)    As a deer longs for flowing streams,   so my soul longs for You, O God.   My soul thirsts for God,   for the living God.   When shall I come and behold the face of God?   My tears have been my food day and night,   while people say to me continually,   “Where is your God?” R...

Scripture   John 20:24–29 (NRSV)    But Thomas, who was called the Twin, one of the twelve,   was not with them when Jesus came.   So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.”   But he said to them,   “Unless I see the mark of the nails in His hands,   and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in His si...

Scripture   John 20:19–22 (NRSV)    When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week,   and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear,   Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”   After He said this, He showed them His hands and His side.   Then the disciples rejoiced when they...

Scripture   Psalm 23 (NRSV)    The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.   He makes me lie down in green pastures;   He leads me beside still waters;   He restores my soul.   He leads me in right paths   for His name’s sake.   Even though I walk through the darkest valley,   I fear no evil;   for Y...

Scripture   Genesis 16:7–13 (NRSV)    The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a spring of water in the wilderness,   the spring on the way to Shur. And he said,   “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”   She said, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”   The angel of the Lord said to her, &nbsp...

Scripture   Matthew 5:14–16 (NRSV)    “You are the light of the world.   A city built on a hill cannot be hidden.   No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket,   but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.   In the same way, let your light shine before others,   so that they may see your good...

Scripture   Isaiah 40:28–31 (NRSV)    Have you not known? Have you not heard?   The Lord is the everlasting God,   the Creator of the ends of the earth.   He does not faint or grow weary;   His understanding is unsearchable.   He gives power to the faint,   and strengthens the powerless.   Even youths will fa...

Scripture   Philippians 3:7–14 (NRSV)    Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.   More than that, I regard everything as loss   because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.   For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things,   and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I ma...

Scripture   Genesis 28:10–16 (NRSV)    Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.   He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set.   Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down.   And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth,   the top of it reaching to...

Scripture   Psalm 131 (NRSV)    O Lord, my heart is not lifted up,   my eyes are not raised too high;   I do not occupy myself with things   too great and too marvelous for me.   But I have calmed and quieted my soul,   like a weaned child with its mother;   my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.  ...

Scripture   Proverbs 3:5–8 (NRSV)    Trust in the Lord with all your heart,   and do not rely on your own insight.   In all your ways acknowledge Him,   and He will make straight your paths.   Do not be wise in your own eyes;   fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.   It will be a healing for your flesh   an...

Scripture   John 14:16–20, 26–27 (NRSV)    And I will ask the Father,   and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.   This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,   because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.   You know Him, because He abides with you, and He will be in you.   I will not leave yo...

Scripture   Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, 11 (NRSV)    For everything there is a season,   and a time for every matter under heaven:   a time to be born, and a time to die;   a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;   a time to kill, and a time to heal;   a time to break down, and a time to build up;   a time to...

Scripture   Lamentations 3:21–26 (NRSV)    But this I call to mind,   and therefore I have hope:   The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,   His mercies never come to an end;   they are new every morning;   great is Your faithfulness.   “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,   “therefore I will hope in...

Scripture   Acts 17:24–28 (NRSV)    The God who made the world and everything in it,   He who is Lord of heaven and earth,   does not live in shrines made by human hands,   nor is He served by human hands,   as though He needed anything,   since He Himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.   From one...

Scripture   1 Kings 19:11–13 (NRSV) The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”   Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord,   but the Lord was not in the wind;   and after the wind an earthquake,   but the Lord was not...

Scripture   Romans 8:22–27 (NRSV)    We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now;   and not only the creation, but we ourselves,   who have the first fruits of the Spirit,   groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.   For in hope we were saved.   Now hope that is seen...

Scripture   Luke 12:22–32 (NRSV, abridged)    Jesus said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat,   or about your body, what you will wear.   For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.   Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap,   they have neither storehouse nor barn,   and yet God feeds them.&...

Scripture   Psalm 139:1–12 (NRSV)    O Lord, you have searched me and known me.   You know when I sit down and when I rise up;   you discern my thoughts from far away.   You search out my path and my lying down,   and are acquainted with all my ways.   Even before a word is on my tongue,   O Lord, you know it completel...

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