Luke 15:21 (ESV)

‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Le Retour, 1879
Henry Mosler (German-American, 1841-1920)

Joel 2:12-13 (AKJV)

Therefore also now, saith the Lord,
turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,
and with weeping, and with mourning:
and rend your heart, and not your garments,
and turn unto the Lord your God:
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repenteth him of the evil.

Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre
Harold Copping (English, 1863-1932)

Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)

For I am sure that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present
nor things to come,
nor powers,
nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830-1902)

Romans 5:6-8 (ESV)

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

There Were Also Women Looking From Afar Off, 1908
Vasilii Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian, 1844-1927)

Psalm 103:15-18 (ESV)

As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children's children,
to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.

Dreaming Light, Oil, 2024
Soulsunmoon1990

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Philippians 1:21 (ESV)

For to me to live is Christ,
and to die is gain.

Jesus Christ, Portrait
Heinrich Hofmann (German, 1824-1911)

Psalm 73:25-26 (ESV)

Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Funeral in Brittany, 1884
Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862-1946)

1 Peter 1:24-25 (ESV)

“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

Clump of Chrysanthemums Garden at Petit Gennevilliers
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)

Isaiah 40:6-8 (ESV)

All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.

The Poppy Field near Argenteuil, 1873
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Hebrews 13:8 (ESV)

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

Walk of Faith
Thomas Kinkade (American, 1958-2012)

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Psalm 90:1-2 (ESV)

Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

The First Day of Creation
Ofra Friedland (Israeli, 1959 - present)

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John 11:25-26 (ESV)

“I am the resurrection and the life.
Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.”

La Résurrection, 1730
Nicolas Bertin (French 1637-1736)

Job 19:25-27 (ESV)

“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.”

Revelation 1:8 (ESV)

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,
“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

I am Alpha and Omega saith the Lord
George Lightfoot

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Ecclesiastes 3:10-11 (ESV)

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

The Herring Net, 1885
Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

James 4:14 (ESV)

Come now, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow we will go into ... town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.

What is your life?
For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Rocks in the Mist, 1890
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900)

Psalm 39:4-5 (ESV)

“O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!”

From the North Cape, c. 1840
Peder Balke (Norwegian, 1804-1887)

Matthew 21:15-16 (ESV)

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant, and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?"

Suffer the Children
Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834-1890)

John 19:32-34 (NASB1995)

So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him; but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Statue of Jesus and Saint Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced Christ in his side with a lance, in the Cathedral of Leon, Spain.

John 15:25 (ESV)

But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled:
They hated me without a cause.

Golgotha, 1893
Nikolai Ge (Russian, 1831-1894)

Matthew 21:9 (ESV)

And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

Matthew 21:42 (ESV)

Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

Man of Sorrows, c. 1860
William Dyce (Scottish, 1806-1864)

Psalm 29:1-3

Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The Lord is over many waters.

Ship in Stormy Seas, 1858
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900)

John 2:15-17 (ESV)

And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. ... And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade." His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

Jesus Cleansing the Temple, 1874
Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834-1890)

Matthew 4:6 (ESV)

... If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, He will command his angels concerning you, and On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

Christ Tempted by the Devil
José Rosset