Psalm 18:31-33 (ESV)

For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God?—
the God who equipped me with strength
and made my way blameless.
He made my feet like the feet of a deer
and set me secure on the heights.

The Heart of the Andes, 1859
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900)

1 Samuel 17:34-35 (ESV)

“Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.”

The Shepherd David, c. 1895
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (American, 1837-1922)

Genesis 4:10-12 (ESV)

And the Lord said,
“What have you done?
The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. 
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength.
You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Cain, 1885
Emanuel Krescenc Liška (Czech, 1852-1903)

Luke 11:50-51 (NIV)

Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.

Kain Erschlägt Abel (Cain Kills Abel), 1922
Hugo Vogel (German, 1855-1934)

Isaiah 50:4 (NASB1995)

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of disciples,
That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

Christ and His Mother Studying the Scriptures, c. 1908
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937)

1 Chronicles 28:5-6 (NIV)

Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel. He said to me: ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father’.

David declaring his will that Solomon should succeed him to Zadok, Nathan and Bonaiah
William Osborne Hamilton (British, 1751-1801)

Hebrews 7:26-27 (ESV)

For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Matthew 27:51 (ESV)

And behold,
the curtain of the temple was torn in two,
from top to bottom.
And the earth shook,
and the rocks were split.

The Rending of the Veil, 1869
William Bell Scott (Scottish, 1811-1890)

Isaiah 61:11 (ESV)

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to sprout up before all the nations.

The Garden of Eden, c1610-12
Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568-1625)

1 Peter 3:18 (ESV)

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.

Christ on the Cross, 1782
Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834–1890)

Genesis 3:16 (NASB1995)

To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”

Eve, 1885
Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930)

John 20:15 (KJV)

Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?

Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre
Henry Lejeune (English, 1819-1904)

Revelation 6:12-13 (ESV)

When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

Revelation of John 6:12–14 (The Stars Fall from Heaven)
Offenbarung des Johannes 6, 12-14 (Die Sterne Fallen vom Himmel)
The Augsburg Book of Miracles, c. 1545-52
Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch — Folio 176
Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (German, 1513-1568)

Luke 16:24 (NASB1995)

And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’

Abraham and Lazarus, 1890s
James Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Luke 16:19-21 (BSB)

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor. And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich mans table.

The Rich Man and Lazarus, 19th century
Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)

Lamentations 3:22-24 (ESV)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”

The Angelus, 1857-59
Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875)

Genesis 28:20-22 (ESV)

“If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house.”

Jacob at Bethel, 1860
James Smetham (British, 1821-1889)

Deuteronomy 34:1-3 (ESV)

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

Moses on Pisgah, undated
Harold Copping (English, 1863-1932)

Acts 17:22-23 (NKJV)

“Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: To the Unknown God. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you”

St Paul Preaching at Athens, c. 1710
Sir James Thornhill (c. 1675-1734)
Sketch for one of a series of paintings for the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Acts 19:19 (NASB1995)

And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Saint Paul and the Burning of the Pagan Books at Ephesus, 1866
Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)

Acts 20:9-10 (NASB1995)

And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”

St. Paul Healing the Young Man, c. 1638
Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck (Flemish, 1596-1675)

2 Kings 2:12 (NASB1995)

“My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire, 1755
Giuseppe Angeli (Italian, 1712-1798)

Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (NIV)

Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it? No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.” 

Life, Death, and Immortality, 1844
Thomas Cole (English-American, 1801-1848)

Deuteronomy 29:29 (ESV)

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Moses Descends from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, 1662
Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Daniel 8:3 (ESV)

I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

Daniel’s Second Vision, 1650
Willem Drost (Dutch, 1633-1659)