Maria Esther Torres's Highlights
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:45-46 ESV
Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:42 ESV
But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:40 ESV
saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:39 ESV
Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:38 ESV
This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:33 ESV
Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:32 ESV
'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:31 ESV
When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:30 ESV
"Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:28 ESV
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:27 ESV
But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:25 ESV
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:23 ESV
"When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:19 ESV
He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:18 ESV
until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:10 ESV
and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:9 ESV
"And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:8 ESV
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 7:5 ESV
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
Nov 23
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Psalms 84:12 ESV
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Nov 23