- Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, mend your ways, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- Do not worry about your life, as to what you are to eat; nor for your body, as to what you are to wear. For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
- But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
- Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
- For this is what the Lord says to the house of Israel:
“Seek Me so that you may live.” - Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
- For this is what the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, says:
“I dwell in a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.” - So you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have singled you out from the peoples to be Mine.
- The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains,
The world, and those who live in it. - The Lord redeems the souls of His servants,
And none of those who take refuge in Him will suffer for their guilt. - The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.
- But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sakes.
- All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.
- Teach me Your way, Lord;
I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your name. - As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to keep many people alive.
- Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
Who walk in the Law of the Lord. - In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
- For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end.
- For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose on their behalf.
- Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us.
- For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, this is the one who will save it.
- For His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
- Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
- Behold, as for the impudent one,
His soul is not right within him;
But the righteous one will live by his faith. - But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
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