Give us today our daily bread.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
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.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
If you love me, keep my commands.
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
“Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.Next verse!With image