Peoples Gospel Church

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+002   James 2 (ESV) Faith Without Works Is Dead 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace,…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+001   James   Introduction   James, one of the brothers of Jesus, became a leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus’ death and resurrection. He was respected for the advice he gave and for the wise decisions he helped the community of believers make (see Acts 15:13-21). At…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+005   Lamentations 5 (ESV) 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18 for Mount Zion which lies…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+004       Lamentations 4 (ESV) 11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003       Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+002       Lamentations 2 (ESV) 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+001       LAMENTATIONS   INTRODUCTION When the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and deported much of its population, some residents were left behind in terrible conditions in and around the shattered city. To express their deep shame and grief over the destruction of their home, they wrote songs about its…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+052       Jeremiah 52 (ESV) 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+051       Jeremiah 51 (ESV) 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+050       Jeremiah 50 (ESV) 17 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. 18 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I…