In 1588, a young English woman (seven-months pregnant) looked out over the sea, and what she saw—the Spanish Armada, with 130 heavily armed ships planning to invade the island—so frightened her that she went into premature labor, the midwife being fear.
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- 1 Genesis 1:26-27, NRSV Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness..." So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
- 2 Exodus 19:5, KJV Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.
- 3 Genesis 6:8, NKJV But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
- 4 Genesis 17:7, RSV I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
- 5 Matthew 28:20, KJV Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
- 6 1 Peter 2:9, KJV But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
- 7 Exodus 19:4, RSV "You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself".
- 8 Deuteronomy 7:9, NIV Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
- 9 Exodus 31:16, KJV Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
- 10 Jeremiah 31:31, RSV “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah".
- 11 Hebrews 9:15, RSV Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
- 12 Galatians 3:11, KJV But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, “The just shall live by faith.”
- 13 John 10:10, KJV I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.