These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
For the word of the Lord is right and true;
he is faithful in all he does.
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Do not envy the violent
or choose any of their ways.
For the Lord detests the perverse
but takes the upright into his confidence.
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good.
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.
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.