Life Betterment Through God

Galatians 5:13-26

13 For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.14 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[ao] 15 But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

Living by the Spirit’s Power

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Ruth 1-4

The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

1 This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,

Isaac the father of Jacob,

Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,

Perez the father of Hezron,

Hezron the father of Ram,

4 Ram the father of Amminadab,

Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon,

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Judges 1-21

Judges 2:20-23 (NLT):

So the Lord burned with anger against Israel. He said, “Because these people have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors, and have ignored my commands, I will no longer drive out the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died. I did this to test Israel—to see whether or not they would follow the ways of the Lord as their ancestors did.” That is why the Lord left those nations ...

Joshua 1-24

The land promised to the Israelites in the Bible, specifically in the Book of Joshua, roughly corresponds to a region that spans several modern-day countries in the Middle East. In the Book of Joshua, this "Promised Land" includes the area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and extends from Lebanon in the north to the Sinai Peninsula in the south.

Here’s how this biblical region maps onto current-day countries...