Learn how to discern biblical truth by studying one Bible chapter each week using Precept Bible study methods. Peggy Ployhar is the Founder & CEO of SPED Homeschool and is a leader in the special education homeschooling community. Homeschooling mother of 3 for 19 years, Peggy is also certified by the American Association of Christian Counselors and trained as a Precept Bible Study leader. She is also the host of the very popular live broadcast/podcast, Empowering Homeschool Conversations, a weekly talk show where her guests address relevant issues related to special education homeschooling.
"But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he is denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." 1 Timothy 5:8
"To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled." Titus 1:15
"The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body is full of light; but when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness. Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illuminated, as when the lamp illuminates with its rays." Luke 11:34-36
"For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light. So take care of how you listen; for whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him." Luke 8:17-18
"...and those who are ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut." Matthew 25:10
"...we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 3:14-14
"...work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work and you, both to will and to work for His pleasure." Philippians 3:12b-13
"For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." Hebrews 5:13-14
"For our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself." Philippians 3:20-21
"Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father." Colossians 3:17
"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Romans 8:18
"Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ jesus, who although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself taking the form of a bond servant and being made in the likeness of men." Philippians 2:5-7
"Sanctify them in truth; Your word is truth. As you sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth." John 17:17-19
"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for He who has promised is faithful and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as it is the habit of some, but encourage one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near." Hebrews 10:23-25
"While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light. These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them. But though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him." John 12:36-37
"All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." Isaiah 53:6
"...he did not waiver and unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able to perform. Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness." Romans 4:21-22
"...show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises." Hebrews 6:12
"Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equipped you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Christ Jesus, to whom be the glory forever and ever." Hebrews 13:20-21
"...prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world..." Philippians 2:15
"The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." 2 Peter 2:9
"...I...raised my eyes toward heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation." Daniel 4:34
"... but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth; for I delight in these things..." Jeremiah 9:23-24
"Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for You." Psalm 25:20-21
"Tremble, and do not sin; meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and trust in the Lord." Psalm 4:4-5
"'Return, faithless Israel', declares the Lord; 'I will not look upon you in anger. For I am gracious', declares the Lord; 'I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice', declares the Lord." Jeremiah 3:12-13
"For the Lord will not reject forever, for if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness." Lamentations 3:32
"Blessed be the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplication. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart exalts, and with my song I will thank Him." Psalm 28:6-7
"...the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb." Psalm 19:9-10
"For you or not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language..." Ezekiel 3:5
"...I have to declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." Job 42:3
"Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him." James 5:13-14
"And another also said, "I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say goodbye to those at home." But Jesus said to him, "No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God." Luke 9:61-62
"...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, in order that I may obtain to the resurrection from the dead." Philippians 3:10-11
"...be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." 2 Timothy 4:5
"So we have this prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts." 2 Peter 1:19
"...for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great." Luke 9:48
"If I then, the Lord and Teacher, washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet." John 13:14
"We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error." 1 John 5:6
"If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing, it is My Father who glorifies Me..." John 8:54
"...we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord..." Colossians 1:9
"But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:4-7
"...prepare your mind for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 1:13
"Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. Say to those with an anxious heart, 'Take courage, fear not.'" Isaiah 35:3
"I will also turn My hand against you, and will smelt away your dross as with lye and will remove all your alloy. Then I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning, after that you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful city." Isaiah 1:25-26
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of hosts..." Malachi 3:10
"Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is considered prudent." Proverbs 17:28
"Who among these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this." Job 12:9
"...if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you. For a long to see you..." Romans 1:10
"For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope." Romans 15:4
"He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Matthew 12:30