CORE 52

Core 52 is for spiritual health what CrossFit is for physical health. In just 15 minutes a day, you can master the 52 most important passages of the Bible. Each week features a brief essay, memory verse, Bible story, and practical ways to put what you’ve read into practice. In one year, you can master the core of the Bible.

 
 
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Core 1

Exodus 20:11 - For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day

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Core 2

1 John 4:8 - Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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Core 3

1 Corinthians 15:47-49 - The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

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Core 4

And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness. Genesis 15:6

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Core 5

Hebrews 12:14 - Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

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Core 6

“I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.” - Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV

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Core 7

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart. – 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV

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Core 8

“When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish His kingdom.” - 2 Samuel 7:12 (ESV)

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Core 9

How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path of sinners or join a group of mockers! – Psalm 1:1 (HCSB)

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Core 10

I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done. – Isaiah 46:9b-10

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Core 11

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. – Psalm 23:1-3

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Core 12

The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” - Psalm 110:1

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Core 13

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. - Psalm 118:22

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Core 14

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7

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Core 15

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5

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Core 16

I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. - Jeremiah 31:33-34

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Core 17

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. - Daniel 7:13-14

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Core 18

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” - Matthew 5:11-12

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Core 19

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 5:20

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Core 20

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. - Matthew 6:9-13

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