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As you will have noticed, every edition of Spiritual Manna begins with a reference to a Scripture. The devotional might be a deep study of that verse or the passage associated with that verse, or it might involve that verse somehow in some other discussion.

Nevertheless, below is an archival listing of Spiritual Manna by Scriptural reference, broken down by Biblical book.

Old Testament

Genesis

• 1.1: Beginnings
• 2.1: The End of the Beginning
• 2.15: Work
• 3.4-5: The Serpent’s Deception
• 4.16-17: Civilization
• 5.21-24: Enoch
• 15.6: Faith Counted as Righteousness

Exodus

• 4.13: Send Someone Else!
• 12.17: A Perpetual Ordinance
• 12.25-27: When They Ask
• 16.4: The Trust Test
• 20.2: The Foundation of the Law
• 20.3: The First Commandment
• 20.4-5a: The Second Commandment
• 20.5ab: The Jealous God
• 20.5c-6: Iniquity of the Fathers and Children
• 20.7: Taking God’s Name in Vain
• 20.8: Rest
• 20.9-11: Sabbath
• 20.12: Honor Father and Mother
• 20.13: Thou Shalt Not Kill
• 20.14: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
• 20.15: Thou Shalt Not Steal
• 20.16: The Ninth Commandment
• 20:17: The Tenth Commandment

Leviticus

• 6.25-29: Jesus, Our Sin Offering

Numbers

• 16.1-3: God’s Chosen People
• 20.12: Sanctifying God

Deuteronomy

• 8.3: Spiritual Manna
• 29.29: The Secret Things
• 30:19-20: The Choice

Judges

• 6.13: Gideon’s Perspective
• 7.9-11a: Gideon’s Tests
• 11.30-31: Jephthah’s Vow
• 16.28: Samson and Revenge
• 17.6: No King in Israel
• 17.13: Micah’s Certainty

1 Samuel

• 3.1-10: Hearing the Voice of God
• 8.19-20: Give Us a King!
• 15:3: The God of the Old and New Testaments
• 15.22-23: Rejecting God’s Words
• 26.21: Mistakes

2 Samuel

• 24.24: The Cost of Sacrifice

1 Kings

• 17.1: The Futility of Idols
• 18.17-18: The Troubler of Israel

2 Kings

• 5.11-12: Naaman and Obedient Faith
• 6.15-17: The Spiritual Reality
• 20.12-19: The Enemy of My Enemy

1 Chronicles

• 21.17: Taking Responsibility

2 Chronicles

• 36.15-16: No Remedy

Nehemiah

• 8.8: Reading with Understanding

Esther

• 4.13-14: For Such a Time as This

Job

• 2.9-10: Receiving Good and Evil
• 28.28: The Beginning of Wisdom

The Psalms

• 8.3-5: What Is Man?
• 14.1: The Fool Speaks in His Heart
• 22.29-31: He Has Done It
• 44.22-24: A Raw Psalm
• 55.12-14: Betrayal
• 73.27-28: Asaph and the Wicked
• 110.4: The Messiah: King and Priest

Proverbs

• 1.7, 3.19: The Foundation of Knowledge
• 7.1-5: Wisdom in Avoiding Immorality
• 12.1: Reproof
• 12.25: Encouraging Words
• 13.1, 15.5: Reproof
• 23.29-35: The Folly of Alcohol

Ecclesiastes

• 1.2-3: Futility in Effort
• 1.9: The Myth of Progress
• 1.13-14: Busy!
• 1.16-18: The Vanity of Knowledge and Wisdom
• 2.22-24: Work and Effort
• 4.9-12: Our Need for Others
• 7.1: Overthrowing Conventional Wisdom
• 7.2: The House of Mourning
• 7.10: The Good Old Days
• 7.21-22: Speaking and Hearing Evil
• 12.1: Remembering our Creator
• 12.12: The Limits of Study

Isaiah

• 5.20: Morality Turned Upside Down
• 35.3-4: Strength in Hope of Deliverance
• 45.15: A God Who Hides Himself
• 53.5: Healed by His Wounds

Jeremiah

• 10.23: Not to Direct His Steps
• 44.16-18: The Queen of Heaven

Ezekiel

• 3.17: The Watchman
• 6.7: Know That I Am YHWH
• 18.25-30: God’s Ways

Daniel

• 7.13-14: The Son of Man

Hosea

• 4.6: Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge

Amos

• 5.24: Justice and Righteousness
• 8.1-2: The Autumn of Covenant

Jonah

• 4.1-3: Nationalism

Micah

• 7.1: The Autumn of Covenant
• 7.6: Enemies in the House

Nahum

• 1.15: Feet Bearing Good News

Habakkuk

• 2.4: Living by our Faith

Zechariah

• 12.10: Him Whom They Have Pierced

Malachi

• 2.17: Where Is the God of Justice?
• 3.13-14: Is It Vain to Serve God?

New Testament

Matthew

• 1.1-6: Jesus’ Genealogical Surprises
• 1.20-23: Immanuel
• 4.1-4: The Temptation of Bread
• 4.5-7: A Testing Temptation
• 4.8-11: The Powerful Temptation
• 4.17: Repent!
• 5.1-3: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
• 5.4: Blessed Are the Mourners
• 5.5: Blessed Are the Meek
• 5.6: Seeking Sustenance Through Righteousness
• 5.7: The Merciful
• 5.8: The Pure in Heart
• 5.9: The Peacemakers
• 6.19-21: True Treasure
• 6.27: The Results of Worry
• 7.1-5: Judgment
• 8.8-10: No Greater Faith
• 9.12-13: Spiritual Illness
• 9.36: Compassion
• 9.36: Sinners and Hypocrites
• 10.16: Serpents and Doves
• 10.28: Fear Not
• 10.38: Taking the Cross
• 11.29: Jesus, Meek and Lowly
• 12.7: Mercy, not Sacrifice
• 12.46-50: Jesus’ Family
• 13.3-4: The Road Soil
• 13.5-6: The Rocky Soil
• 13.7: The Thorny Soil
• 13.8: The Good Soil
• 13.13-16: Willful Blindness
• 13.18-23: Soils
• 13.18-19: The Road Soil
• 13.20-21: The Rocky Soil
• 13.22: The Thorny Soil
• 13.23: The Good Soil
• 13.24-30: The Wheat and the Tares
• 13.33: Leaven
• 13.36-43: The Wheat and the Tares
• 13.44-46: The Value of the Kingdom
• 13.47-50: The Dragnet
• 13.51-52: The New Old Treasure
• 14.14: Service Despite Distress
• 14.28-31: Walking on the Water
• 16.1-4: Forecasts
• 17.20-24: Jesus and the Tax
• 18.20: I Am in Their Midst
• 19.23-26: The Problem of Wealth
• 19.30-20.16: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
• 20.18-19: The Treatment of the Son of Man
• 20.25-28: Servant Power
• 21.28-32: The Two Sons
• 22.35-40: Summing Up the Law
• 23.5-7: Keeping Up Appearances
• 23.23: The Weightier Matters
• 23.33: God’s Trash Pit
• 23.33: Sinners and Hypocrites
• 24.6-8: Wars and Rumors of Wars
• 24.45-51: The Ultimate Pop Quiz
• 25.30: The Outer Darkness
• 25.34-40: The Judgment Everyone Wants to Hear
• 25.41-46: The Judgment No One Wants to Hear
• 26.14-15: The Bankrupt Treasury
• 27.3-10: The Betrayer, Betrayed
• 28.11-15: The Bankrupt Treasury
• 28.18: Christ the Lord

Mark

• 1.16-20, 2.14: Follow Me
• 2.27-28: Man and the Sabbath
• 4.30-32: The Mustard Seed (1)
• 5.35-36: Do Not Fear; Only Believe
• 7.6-9: Pharisees and Tradition
• 7.37: He Does All Things Well
• 10.13-16: Jesus and the Little Children
• 11.12-14: Fig Tree Religion
• 12.13-17: Rendering to Caesar and God
• 13.32-37: Watch and Pray
• 14.4-8: Mary and Her Ointment

Luke

• 1.30-33: The Gospel in Jesus’ Birth
• 1.31-33: The Promised Messiah
• 2.8-14: The Proclamation
• 2.25: The Consolation of Israel
• 4.4, 8, 12: It Is Written…
• 4.22-29: The Prophet in His Hometown
• 4.13: Departed for a Season
• 6.20-21, 24-25: The Kingdom Perspective on Difficulties
• 6.31: The Golden Rule
• 6.35: Divine Kindness
• 6.41-42: The Beam and the Mote
• 6.46: Calling Jesus “Lord”
• 7.31-35: This Generation
• 7.36-47: Jesus, Sinners, and Pharisees
• 8.43-48: Helping the Defiled
• 9.49-50: For or Against Jesus
• 9.51: Purpose
• 9.57-58: Home
• 9.59-60: Burying the Dead
• 9.61-62: Looking Back
• 10.17-20: The Source of our Joy
• 11.1-4: The Lord’s Prayer
• 11.5-13: Ask to Receive
• 11.23: For or Against Jesus
• 12.15: Black Friday
• 13.3: Repent!
• 13.6-9: Fertilizer
• 13.23-27: Presence vs. Participation
• 14.25-33: Counting the Cost
• 15.11-24: The Prodigal Son
• 15.25-32: The Older Brother
• 17.5-6: The Mustard Seed (2)
• 18.8b: Finding Faith
• 18.9-14: The Pharisee and the Publican
• 19.1-10: What Jesus Saw in Zacchaeus
• 19.41-44: The Prophet Over Jerusalem
• 21.1-4: Real Giving
• 22.31-34: Jesus and Our Weaknesses
• 22.54: Following Afar Off
• 23.34: Jesus’ Example of Forgiveness
• 23.56: Rested on the Sabbath

John

• 1.1-3: The Word
• 1.4-5: Light Over Darkness
• 1.14: The Word Became Flesh
• 1.18: Relating the Father
• 1.29: The Lamb
• 2.19-21: Jesus the Temple
• 6.15: A King of Their Own Making
• 6.66-69: To Whom Shall We Go?
• 7.5: Jesus’ Brothers
• 8.31-32: Freedom From Bondage
• 10.22-23: The Feast of Dedication
• 10.30: Relational Unity
• 13.14-15: Washing Feet
• 14.8-10: Seeing God in Jesus
• 16.33: Tribulation and Peace
• 11.35: Jesus Wept
• 17.20-21: Unity
• 19.25: Mary, Mother of Jesus
• 19.30: The End of the Beginning

Acts of the Apostles

• 1.8: Jesus in Acts
• 2.36: Christ the Lord
• 2.46-47: Having Favor with the People
• 3.14-15: The Author of Life and the Murderer
• 5.40-41: Suffering for the Name
• 9.13-14: The Call
• 17.6-7: The Revolution
• 17.10-12: The Bereans
• 17.21: A New Thing
• 17.26-28: Existing in God
• 17.26-28: Seeking God
• 24.24-25: Felix

Romans

• 1.16: Not Ashamed of the Gospel
• 1.19-20: God in His Creation
• 1.22-23: God in Man’s Image
• 5.6-8: The Greatness of Jesus’ Accomplishments
• 8.15: Adoption
• 8.24-25: Hope
• 8.26-27: The Intercession of the Holy Spirit
• 8.29: Conformity
• 8.31-32: God and Us
• 9.6-8: Children by Faith
• 12.1: A Living Sacrifice
• 12.2: Conformity
• 13.8: Debt
• 14.16-17: Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians

• 1.22-24: Christ Crucified
• 3.5-8: God, Us, and Evangelism
• 5.7: Christ Our Passover
• 7.20-23: Slavery
• 10.16-17: Community
• 10.32-33: The Profit of the Many
• 11.1: Imitating Christ
• 15.19: The Source of Our Hope
• 15.23: The Firstfruits
• 15.57: Victory!

2 Corinthians

• 3.1-3: Living Letters
• 3.4-6a: Christ Our Sufficiency
• 3.6b-9: The Letter and the Spirit
• 3.12-16: The Veil
• 3.17-18: The Lord the Spirit
• 4.17-18: Light Momentary Affliction
• 5.7: Walking by Faith
• 5.11: Persuading Men
• 5.21: Jesus, Our Sin Offering
• 8.3-5: Giving Ourselves
• 10.3-5: The Weapons of our Warfare
• 12.9-10: Strength in Weakness
• 13.10: Casting Down to Build Up

Galatians

• 3.28: One in Christ

Ephesians

• 1.5: Adoption
• 2.1-3: Our Days in Sin
• 2.16: Killing the Hostility
• 4.28: The Principle of Work
• 4.32: The Tender Heart
• 6.12: Our Conflict

Philippians

• 2.12-13: To Will and to Work
• 4.8: Think on These Things
• 4.11-13: The Power of Contentment
• 4.12: Being Abased

Colossians

• 2.6-8: The Philosophy of Christ
• 3.11: Christ, All in All

1 Thessalonians

• 4.13-14: Death
• 5.18: Giving Thanks

2 Thessalonians

• 3.1: Pray For Us
• 3.10: Labor

1 Timothy

• 1.15-16: The Chief of Sinners
• 4.7b-8: Exercise
• 6.12-14: The Good Confession

2 Timothy

• 2.8: Remember Jesus Christ
• 4.3-4: Itching Ears

Titus

• 3.8: Maintaining Good Works

Hebrews

• 2.9-10: Perfected Through Suffering
• 5.14: Maturity
• 7.25: Jesus the High Priest
• 11.1-2: The (Imperfect) Men of Faith
• 12.1: Endurance
• 12.1-2: Moving Forward
• 12.7: Discipline

James

• 1.20: Man’s Anger and God’s Righteousness
• 4.17: The Imperative of Doing Good

1 Peter

• 1.23-25: The Incorruptible Seed
• 2.9-10: God’s People
• 3.13: Zealous for Good
• 3.15: Our Defense
• 4.7: Self-Control and Sober-Mindedness
• 5.6-7: Casting Our Anxiety Upon Him
• 5.9: Our Common Suffering

2 Peter

• 3.8: Time and God

1 John

• 2.6: Walking as He Walked
• 4.10: The God of the Old and New Testaments

2 John

• 1.9: Abiding in the Teaching of Christ

Revelation

• 1.12-16: The Lord in Glory
• 21.9: Our Waiting Glory