For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”
It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life.
Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Hear my prayer, Lord,
listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Who is wise? Let them realize these things.
Who is discerning? Let them understand.
The ways of the Lord are right;
the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
The unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”
The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?