- Therefore, encourage one another and strengthen one another, as indeed you are doing.
- Brethren, if anyone is detected committing a transgression, you who are spiritual must set him right in a spirit of gentleness. Meanwhile, you should take care so that you yourselves are not tempted.
- The Lord God said, “Behold, man has become like one of us, for he has knowledge of that which is good and that which is evil. Now, we must prevent him from reaching out and taking the fruit of the tree of life lest he eat it and live forever.” The Lord God cast him out of the Garden of Eden; henceforth he was to labor tilling the soil from which he had come.
- When I sing to you, my lips will rejoice,
and so will my soul, which you have redeemed. - For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one man the many will be made righteous.
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that weighs us down and the sins that so easily distract us and with perseverance run the race that lies ahead of us.
- This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren. - For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so too do we believe that God will bring forth with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
- He who called you is holy. Therefore, be holy yourselves in all your conduct. For Scripture says, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
- But our citizenship is in heaven, and from there we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
- In everything, deal with others as you would like them to deal with you. This is the Law and the Prophets.
- And if we know that he hears us
in regard to whatever we ask him,
we may be sure
that all we ask of him will be ours. - You believe that there is one God. You do well to assert that. But even the demons believe and tremble.
- Take delight in the Lord,
and he will grant you what your heart desires. - Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so whoever feeds upon me will live because of me. - He is the head of the body,
that is, the Church.
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that in every way
he should be supreme. - And so does kindness, O Lord.
You reward each person
in accordance with his deeds. - So Christ, having been offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him.
- This water prefigured Baptism, which now saves you. It does so not by the washing away of dirt from the body but by the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- In much the same manner
will wisdom be sweet to your soul.
If you find it, you will have a future,
and your hope will not be cut off. - Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
that is above all other names,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth. - The body is one, although it has many parts; and all the parts, though many, form one body. So it is with Christ.
- And I say to you: You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against it.
- For there is one God,
and there is one mediator between God and man,
Christ Jesus, himself a man. - And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a sacrificial offering whose fragrance is pleasing to God.
My life is in your hands;
deliver me from the power of my enemies,
from the clutches of those who pursue me. Entrust everything that you do to the Lord,
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