1 Peter 5:6-9 (ESV)
Cast all your anxieties on Him.
Be sober-minded; be watchful.
Your adversary the devil prowls around seeking someone to devour.
Resist him, knowing that your same suffering is being experienced by others throughout the world.
The Lord’s Prayer. Pilgrim, 1908
Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858-1938)
Psalm 25:6-7 (ESV)
Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
The Prodigal Son, 1888
John Macallan Swann (English, 1846-1910)
Philippians 4:12-13 (ESV)
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound.
In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
The Ascent of the Matterhorn, on July 14, 1865, Arrival at the Summit
Gustave Doré (French, Engraver, 1832-1883)
Eugène Cicéri (French, Lithographer, 1813-1890)
Psalm 126:6 (ESV)
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
The Harvest Festival
Armand Leleux (French, 1818-1885)
Mark 12:43-44 (ESV)
“Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
The Widows Mite, 1890
William Teulon Blandford Fletcher (English, 1858-1936)
Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
Luke 12:48 (NIV)
Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
The Bookworm (Second Version, c.1851)
Carl Spitzweg (German, 1808-1885)
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV)
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Infant Prayer
Henry Lejeune (English, 1819-1904)
Revelation 21:1-2 (ESV)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Resurrection, 1965
Robert Clark (American)
Genesis 11:1-2 (ESV)
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
The Tower of Babel
Hendrick van Cleve III (Flemish, 1525-1589)
Deuteronomy 5:11 (DARBY)
Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name.
Defeat of Sennacherib, 1614
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)
This is what the Lord says: Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian king’s messengers. Listen! I myself will move against him, and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.
2 Kings 19:6-7 (NLT)
Genesis 5:3 (ESV)
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Seth Greets Adam on His Return from the Field, 1586
Johann Sadeler, engraving after drawing by Maerten de Vos
Genesis 6:3 (ESV)
Then the Lord said,
"My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
Valley of Mount Ararat, 1885
Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900)
Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (NIV)
If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
Doña Juana la Loca (Queen Joanna the Mad), 1877,
oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Francisco Pradilla.
Joanna of Castile is shown watching over the casket of her dead husband, Philip I of Castile. Philip died suddenly of typhoid fever, and it was said she carried his casket around with her everywhere, believing one day he would wake from sleep. This was a common ritual for her.
Job 9:5-13 (NIV)
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
The Pleiades at Night
Unknown artist.
Luke 2:8-9 (KJV)
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, 1834
Thomas Cole (English-American, 1801-1848)
Psalm 23:4 (KJV)
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 they comfort me.
The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1829
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
Psalm 46:4-5 (ESV)
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The City of God, 1850
John Martin (English, 1789-1854)
Luke 1:46-49 (The Magnificat)
My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name.
Head of the Madonna
Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528-1612)
Luke 1:30-32 (NIV)
But the angel said to her,
“Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.
You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High."
The Annunciation, 1898
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937)
Revelation 19:6 (ESV)
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns."
Through the Gap, 2018
Dave A. Santillanes (American)
John 15:5 (ESV)
I am the vine; you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:4 (ESV)
Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Still Life with Fruits, Foliage and Insects, 1669
Abraham Mignon (German, 1640-1679)
Genesis 3:19 (ESV)
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Sorrow, 1898
Émile Friant (French, 1863–1932)
Genesis 13:14-15 (ESV)
All the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
God showing Moses the Promised Land from the top of Mount Nebo, 1818
Carl Ludwig Kuhbeil (German, 1770-1823)