- Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.
- Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. - Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!
- But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. - I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
- Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
be wise enough to desist. - Wealth is a ransom for a person's life,
but the poor get no threats. - But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.”
- Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
- What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them? - You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. Selah - Because I delivered the poor who cried,
and the orphan who had no helper.
The blessing of the wretched came upon me,
and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. - So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.
- Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
- But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
- I shall walk at liberty,
for I have sought your precepts. - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
- So we fasted and petitioned our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
- I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
- Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
- Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life, to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
- While I kept silence, my body wasted away
through my groaning all day long. - Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good repute
in the sight of God and of people.
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