- Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
- And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
- Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom. - And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
- This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
- I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you. - You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
- Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. - In that day you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.” - I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
- I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
- Teach me your way, Lord,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name. - I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
- And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
- This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
- And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. - For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
- I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Bible verse of the day
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the powerand the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.