Everyday words
Hostility
Start with Genesis 3:15, where the Bible uses the word hostility in a real sentence: “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise…” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 3:15
“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.””
2. Numbers 35:21
“or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.”
3. Numbers 35:22
““‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,”
4. Ezekiel 25:15
““‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;””
5. Ezekiel 35:5
““‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;”
6. Hosea 9:7
“The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.”
7. Hosea 9:8
“A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.”
8. Ephesians 2:15
“having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 3:15
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Iwillputhostilitybetweenyouandthewoman,andoffspringandheroffspring.Hewillyourhead,andyouwillbruisehisheel.”