The Bible Recap Quotes

“Knowledge is having the facts. Understanding is the ability to discern what the facts mean and how they fit together in the big picture. Wisdom is knowing how to apply your knowledge and understanding, translating it into the everyday life of a Christ follower.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Out of all the Ten Commandments, there are two He keeps repeating: You shall have no other gods before Me, and rest.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“All three persons of the Trinity are present and active at creation: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. The Father gives the creation commands, the Son does the manual labor of creation (John 1:3), and the Spirit hovers over creation, sustaining and approving of it.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“in each moment. It’s everything we need. Second Timothy 3:16–17 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” We have everything we need—the bright light, the personal light—all lighting up the same truths that we need for life and godliness and for every good work. God has generously given it all to us. His Word is where the joy is, because He’s in it—and He’s where the joy is!”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The word used for lamp in “a lamp to my feet” refers to a foot lamp, which is like a single candle. This kind of lamp only gives enough light for the next step. You can make the whole journey, step by step, with the candle—but you have to keep referring back to it, just like with the Word of God. The word for light in “a light to my path” is a different word. It’s a floodlight. It’s daybreak. It’s the “God said let there be light” light. This is incredible! God’s Word is both kinds of light—the whole earth flooded with the fires of a thousand suns kind of glorious absolute truth, and the individual, step-by-step kind of personal guidance we need”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“In 40:31 he says to wait for God because God will renew their strength as they wait for Him. The word wait is the Hebrew word qavah, which means 'to bind together, to be joined, to meet, to expect, to be confident, trust, endure.' If we read this verse with all those definitions included, it would say, 'Those who are bound together with the Lord, joined with the Lord, who meet with the Lord, who confidently expect and trust and endure... will renew their strength.' The image here is more than just an expression of time; it's an expression of unity. It's about relationship--knowing Him, trusting His character. When we live in that space, He strengthens us for whatever we're enduring.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“This is important. Scripture repeatedly says we’re saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, not by our works. We are saved entirely and eternally by His works.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Shame feels like an accusation about who you are as a person, someone who is undeserving of love. Humility, on the other hand, is rightly viewing who you are as a person who is loved despite being undeserving. Humility is the narrow zone where you’re not building yourself up or beating yourself up, because you realize it’s not about you.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” You’re where the joy is!”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Many Christians believe it doesn’t need to be rebuilt because God’s Spirit dwells in His people now, not in a building.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“This is hard, because the church is made up of sinners. But God continually pours out grace to help us heal wounds, bridge gaps, and restore brokenness, just like with Paul and John Mark. He’s committed to the unity of His church, so He sends the Spirit as our Helper in aiming for unity and truth.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Along with “don’t be afraid” Jesus also calls His followers to “stay awake.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“While not every thought we think is Him speaking to us (Isaiah 55:8), He is willing and able to prompt His kids with His thoughts and His Word as we seek to live out His will in the world. He causes His Word to bear fruit in our lives! He’s where the joy is!”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Without leaders, people self-govern, but it’s usually too subjective to be righteous.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“God by His generic name, Elohim, not His personal name, YHWH. This shows us how he views God; it’s the difference between knowing God and knowing about God.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“He uses us despite ourselves and even brings us joy in the process. He’s where the joy is!”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“In God’s complexity, He empowers sinful people with wicked motives to accomplish His righteous plan. He uses Samson’s pride and rage to defeat Israel’s enemy. When God’s Spirit empowers Samson to do something, He’s not endorsing Samson’s sin, but sometimes He’s using Samson’s sinfulness to defeat a greater enemy. Any time God uses sinners (i.e., any of us), something is bound to be off track in us, but praise God, our”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“God spoke to Abraham seven hundred years earlier: “Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Part of Adam’s curse is that what he’s in charge of cultivating will work against him. We see this tension alive today: In general, women tend toward control and men tend toward passivity.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“God calls us to mourn with those who mourn, not to advise those who mourn—and certainly not to condemn them for their mourning.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Most, if not all, of our frustrations about God’s actions are rooted in the lie that we deserve something.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Mercy is when you don’t get what you deserve. For fallen humanity, we all deserve hell. We’ve sinned against a holy God and tried to elevate ourselves to His rank. We deserve nothing but punishment. The fact that we’re breathing right now is God’s mercy toward us. Just like He showed mercy toward Adam and Eve when they sinned in the garden, He hasn’t given us the immediate death we deserve for our rebellion. On the other hand, grace is when you get what you don’t deserve.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“It’s not always true that our circumstances are the result of our choices; sometimes they’re the result of our fallen world.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“We are all enemies of God by birth. We are only children of God by adoption.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Even though we may have to wrestle with ourselves over fears of what may come, and we may have to surrender our desire to have all the answers, it’s evident that He’s at work.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“As Paul stays for a year and a half, preaching the gospel, the local Jews eventually”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates” (22:14).”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“has echoes of the armor of God, where the Word of God is our sword (Ephesians 6:17). His Word is His weapon; He brings justice through His Word and is victorious over His enemies. As for the armies of heaven behind Him, it appears we do nothing. He”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

“Some say it’s the remnant of the Jews, and others say it represents all believers from all time.”
― Tara-Leigh Cobble, The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible