Bible verses about "drama" | EJ2000

¹ ¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² ¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding. ⁴ O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back. ⁵ Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. ⁷ Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. ⁹ Except the LORD of the hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. ¹⁰ ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye princes of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats. ¹² When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; the incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot stand them; iniquity and the solemn meeting. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; likewise, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ ¶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; restore unto the oppressed; hear the fatherless in right judgment; protect the widow. ¹⁸ Then come, shall the LORD say, and we shall be even; if your sins were as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow; if they were red like crimson, they shall become as wool. ¹⁹ If ye are willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land; ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. ²¹ ¶ How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: ²³ Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves; every one loves bribes and follows after rewards; they do not hear the fatherless in judgment, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of the hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries and avenge myself of my enemies; ²⁵ and I will turn my hand upon thee and according to pureness purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin; ²⁶ and I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, the faithful city. ²⁷ Zion shall be ransomed with judgment and her converts with righteousness. ²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those that forsook the LORD shall be consumed. ²⁹ For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen. ³⁰ For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf falls and as a garden that has no water. ³¹ And the strong idol shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and no one shall be able to quench them.

⁵ Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me

¹ A Psalm of David. ¶ The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside the still waters. ³ He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me. ⁵ Thou shalt prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup is running over. ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will rest in the house of the LORD for ever.

¹ ¶ He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the LORD, He is my hope and my fortress: my God; in him will I secure myself. ³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the mortal pestilence. ⁴ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings thou shalt be secure: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. ⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day, ⁶ nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. ⁷ Thousands shall fall at thy side and ten thousands at thy right hand, but it shall not come near thee. ⁸ Surely with thine eyes thou shalt behold and see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ ¶ Because thou hast made the LORD, who is my hope, even the most High, thy habitation, ¹⁰ no evil shall befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling. ¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. ¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thy foot stumble against a stone. ¹³ Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. ¹⁴ Because he has set his will upon me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known my name. ¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and glorify him. ¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him and show him my saving health.

²⁰ The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him who is righteous, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him who is wicked.

²² ¶ Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ But foolish and unwise questions refuse, knowing that they do beget contentions. ²⁴ That the slave of the Lord should not be contentious, but be meek unto everyone, apt to teach, patient, ²⁵ that with meekness they might teach those that resist, if God peradventure will grant unto them that they might repent and know the truth, ²⁶ and that they may become converted out of the snare of the devil, in which they are captive to do his will.

¹¹ and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you, ¹² that ye may walk honestly toward those that are without, and that ye may desire nothing from any one.

¹⁶ Nevertheless, in that unto which we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind.

¹ ¶ Admonish them to be subject to dominion and power, and to persuade those who have authority, that they be quick unto every good work. ² That they speak evil of no one, that they not be contentious, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. ³ For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

¹⁶ This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye are not consumed one of another.