- The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low and he exalts. - Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
- Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
- For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well. - Open your mouth, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy. - But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
- Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
- That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ.
- But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
- Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
- A fool despises his father's instruction,
but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. - Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
- Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
but righteousness delivers from death. - Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
- For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
- And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
- Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
- For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
- Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
- For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
- Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
- Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory. - The vine dries up;
the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and gladness dries up
from the children of man.
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