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Key Bible Verses — Important Scriptures to Read and Understand
Important passages from Genesis to Revelation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version, with where it comes from and what it means in its setting.
For Waiting
4Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this: Delight yourself in the LORD
In a wisdom psalm about not envying the wicked, David urges trust and patience. Delighting in the LORD shapes what a person desires.
1My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. 2He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken. My soul rests in God alone
David waits quietly for God, his rock and salvation, while enemies attack him.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: A time for everything
The Teacher's poem of fourteen pairs of seasons, from birth and death to war and peace. Life has its times, under a God whose work humans cannot fully grasp (3:11).
but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. They shall mount up with wings like eagles
The chapter comforts exiles who think God has forgotten them (40:27). The everlasting Creator does not grow weary, and those who wait for the LORD renew their strength.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Plans to give you hope and a future
From Jeremiah's letter to Judeans already taken to Babylon. God told them to settle there, build houses and seek the city's welfare for seventy years (29:4-10); this promise of a…