Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+002   Proverbs 2 (ESV) 1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Proverbs+001   Proverbs Introduction Israel understood that the Creator had placed an order in his world that could be discovered. The book of Proverbs captures these lessons in compact, memorable sayings passed down from the wisest among their elders. Many of them are from Solomon, a king renowned for his wisdom […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+003   2 Thessalonians 3 (ESV) Pray for Us 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, 2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+002   2 Thessalonians 2 (ESV) The Man of Lawlessness 1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Thessalonians+001   2 THESSALONIANS INTRODUCTION Apparently only shortly after writing his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul had to write again to correct a false report that he had said the day of the Lord had already come. The day of the Lord was a phrase from the Hebrew prophets to […]