NIV, First-Century Study Bible Quotes

“13I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“17Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.a Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“3When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“14“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context

“33We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
― Kent Dobson, NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context