Context Summary Revelation 14:6–13 reports what three angels announce. The first angel declares God’s imminent judgment on Babylon, but first he proclaims the eternal gospel...
Context Summary Revelation 3:14–22 is Jesus’ final and most strident message, addressed to the church at Laodicea. We learn from this assessment that the Laodicean...
Context Summary Isaiah 5:8–30 contains Isaiah’s dire predictions about the upcoming judgment of Israel. The first “woes” are to the greedy and the pleasure-seeking drinkers....
Chapter Contents David’s struggle with, and triumph over a strong temptation to distrust God, and betake himself to indirect means for his own safety, in...
Context Summary Acts 16:25–40 records Paul’s first imprisonment. The Philippian magistrates arrested Paul and Silas and had them beaten for spreading the news about Jesus....
Context Summary Genesis 2:4–9 begins to describe additional details about the creation of human beings, starting with the creation of the first man. Man is...
(Read Isaiah 7:10-16) Secret disaffection to God is often disguised with the colour of respect to him; and those who are resolved that they will not...
(Read Ezra 2:1-35) Verse Ezra 2:1. These are the children of the province — That is, of Judea; once a kingdom, and a flourishing nation; now a province, subdued, tributary, and ruined! Behold the goodness...
Context Summary First Timothy 2:1–8 provides a perspective on prayer. Christians are not only supposed to pray, but to pray for all people. This even...
