Know Your Bible Quotes

“Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Through sixty-six separate books”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“QUOTABLE The great day of the LORD is near…and hasteth greatly. (1:14)”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“God’s punishment isn’t intended to hurt people but to bring them back to Him.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“SO WHAT? God hates sin and punishes it. We can be thankful that Jesus took that punishment for us.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“my strength is made perfect in weakness”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Israel goes through cycles of sin, suffering, and salvation.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“the prostitute Rahab helps Israelite spies and earns protection from the destruction of the city: God knocks its walls flat as Joshua’s army marches outside, blowing trumpets and shouting. Joshua leads a successful military campaign to clear idol-worshipping people—Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—from the land.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“The Israelites capture and settle the promised land of Canaan.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Moses reminds the Israelites of their history and God’s laws.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Faithless Israelites wander forty years in the wilderness of Sinai.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“A holy God explains how to worship Him.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“God delivers His people, the Israelites, from slavery in Egypt.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“God creates the world and chooses a special people.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“The book of Revelation identifies Jesus Christ as the “Alpha and Omega” (1:8)”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“God’s rules and expectations aren’t meant to limit and frustrate us but instead to benefit us:”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. (6:4) Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (6:5) The LORD thy God is a jealous God among you. (6:15)”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (1:9)”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Sadly, Solomon’s wisdom fails him, as he marries seven hundred women, many of them foreigners who turn his heart to idols.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“How are you treating the people around you? In God’s eyes, that’s an indicator of your true spiritual condition. For a New Testament perspective, see James 2:14–18.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Luke is the only Gospel to share Jesus’ stories (“parables”) of the good Samaritan (10:25–37), the prodigal son (15:11–32), and the rich man and Lazarus (16:19–31). Luke is also the only Gospel to detail Jesus’ actual birth and words He spoke in childhood (both in Chapter 2). SO WHAT? It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’ve done—Jesus came to seek and to save you.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“We can trust God to provide what we need, when we need it—and to work out our lives in ways that are better than we ever imagined.”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Paul tells where the”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied

“Proverbs doesn’t have a story line—it’s simply a collection of practical tips for living. Mainly from the pen of King Solomon, the wisest human being ever (in 1 Kings 3:12 God said, “I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee”), the proverbs speak to issues such as work, money, sex, temptation, drinking, laziness, discipline, and child rearing. Underlying each proverb is the truth that “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (1:7).”
― Paul Kent, Know Your Bible: All 66 Books Explained and Applied