Daily Devotional Library

Genesis 4:1-12
“Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.”

Genesis 22:1-14
“Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Genesis 37:12-28
“Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these ­cisterns. . . .”

Numbers 11:4-18
“I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.”

Numbers 12
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses. . . .

Judges 16:21-30
The Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and . . . binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison.

1 Samuel 1:9-20
In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping ­bitterly.

1 Samuel 15:10-23
Samuel replied . . . “Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”

1 Samuel 23:14-29
Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

2 Samuel 15:1-18
“Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us. . . .”

2 Samuel 16:5-14
As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!”

Nehemiah 4:1-6
When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews. . . .

Esther 4:1-3
There was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 7
Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty . . . grant me my life . . . and spare my people. . . .”

Psalm 42
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Jeremiah 20:1-6
[Pashhur] had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks . . . at the Lord’s temple.

Daniel 3:8-30
. . . And these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace.

Daniel 6:16-28
The king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den.

Hosea 1:2-9
The Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means not my people), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”

Hosea 3
“Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods. . . .”

Mark 6:14-29
[King Herod] sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, [and] beheaded John in the prison. . . .

Luke 15:11-32
“This son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” So they began to celebrate.

Acts 7:54-60
While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 12:1-11
King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 12:1-10
He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Mark 15:1-24
A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.

John 19:28-30
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Matthew 27:45-50
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1
“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.”