Bible verses about "drama" | ACV

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 LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know; my people does not consider. ⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have gone away backward. ⁵ Why will ye still be stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil. 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 booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. ⁹ Unless LORD of hosts had left to us a seed, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of LORD, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough 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 trample my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. ¹⁹ If ye are willing and obedient, 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 LORD has spoken it. ²¹ How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water. ²³ Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them. ²⁴ Therefore says the Lord, LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and thoroughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin. ²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward thou shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town. ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness. ²⁸ But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake LORD shall be consumed. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. ³⁰ For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. ³¹ And the strong man shall be as flax, and his work as a spark. And they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

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

¹ LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. ³ He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. ⁴ Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. ⁵ Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Thou have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over. ⁶ Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of LORD forever.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. ³ For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. ⁴ He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler. ⁵ Thou shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day, ⁶ for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come near thee. ⁸ Thou shall only behold with thine eyes, and see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ For thou, O LORD, are my refuge! Thou have made the Most High thy habitation. ¹⁰ There shall no evil befall thee, nor shall any plague come near thy tent, ¹¹ for he will give his agents charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. ¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ¹³ Thou shall tread upon the lion and adder. The young lion and the serpent thou shall trample under foot. ¹⁴ Because he has set his love 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 honor him. ¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.

²⁰ The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of a righteous man shall be upon him, and the wickedness of a wicked man shall be upon him.

²² And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels. ²⁴ And a bondman of the Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, ²⁵ in meekness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

¹¹ and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you, ¹² so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

¹⁶ However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way.

¹ Remind them to be submissive to principle offices and positions of authority, to be obedient, to be prepared for every good work, ² to slander no man, to be noncontentious, gentle, showing all meekness to all men. ³ For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

¹⁶ But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.