Quotes About Challenge

The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!

Can anyone smash iron—iron from the north—or bronze?

Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

But I have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.

The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

“I will also ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

And when they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.

One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:

No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Soon a violent windstorm came up, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was being swamped.