Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Till the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the desert becomes a fertile field,
and the fertile field seems like a forest. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the Lord. And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done. And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
who daily bears our burdens. One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy. Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way. When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin. Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
“Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously,
that we may offer the fruit of our lips.” Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.