ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible Quotes

“16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father,  g who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good  h hope through grace, 17comfort your hearts and  i establish them in every good work and word.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“13[†] a Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide  b never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“It is at first unsettling to be confronted with God’s absolute sovereignty in our salvation. But ultimately this is our true security, for if there was nothing in us, but only God’s good pleasure, that brought us into grace, then there is nothing in us that can take us out of grace.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“and  h the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“One particularly poignant way in which these salvation themes are seen in Hosea involves the covenant between God and Israel initiated at Sinai being treated as a marriage. This analogy sees all the indictments of Israel’s idolatry as spiritual adultery. In addition, when God promises to save his people after he judges them (ch. 2), he depicts their future salvation as a new marriage ceremony at a new Sinai (cf. esp. 2:14–23). Jesus later came calling himself the bridegroom of God’s people (e.g., Matt. 9:15), and Paul strikingly states that the great mystery of marriage “refers to Christ and the church” (Eph. 5:32”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“By these words God tells his people all they need to know to endure the trials and martyrdom many will face; i.e., life everlasting awaits those who depend on him rather than their own wisdom or ways.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life

“After the vision is explained, Daniel is sickened by the revelation and struggles to understand. We similarly struggle when we learn that, even in God’s great plan, evil may have its day—as Babylon, Persia, and Greece did. But Daniel arose and went about the king’s business with this further assurance from his vision: God will have the final say.”
― Anonymous, ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible: Christ in All of Scripture, Grace for All of Life