- For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- For we walk by faith, not by sight.
- For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
- All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
- That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
- For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!