Genesis 28:17

Plain English Version

So Jacob got frightened. He said, “This place frightens me. I know for sure that God lives here. This place joins up with heaven.”

Cross References

Genesis 28:18

Early the next morning, Jacob picked up the stone that was at his head, and he stood it up and poured olive oil on top of it. Jacob did those things to show that God was in that place, and that place was special.

Luke 2:9

Suddenly, an angel messenger from God stood there with them, and bright light from God was shining all around them, and they were very frightened.

1 Timothy 3:15

so that you will know the way we have to do things in the church. You know, we are God’s family, and his family is his church. God is always alive, and the people in his church always have to keep on teaching his true word. You know how a house is held up by the big posts that are set in concrete. Well, we people in God’s church, we are like those posts. We are holding up God’s true word, so we have to teach it properly.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time now for God to start judging everybody. He will be good to some people, and he will give trouble to other people. He will judge his own people first. They might get some trouble now, but it will not last for ever. But later, he will judge the people that didn’t want to listen to his good story. He will be really hard on them, he will give them lots of trouble.