- Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
- Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven. - Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
yet I will be confident. - Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- The vexation of a fool is known at once,
but the prudent ignores an insult. - I will praise you with an upright heart,
when I learn your righteous rules. - Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight. - For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
- To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
and a word in season, how good it is! - Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
- Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
- But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. - But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
- You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
- Whoever covers an offense seeks love,
but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. - For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
- It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling. - For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
- An excellent wife who can find?
She is far more precious than jewels. - Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- Do not envy a man of violence
and do not choose any of his ways,
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence. - But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.”
- House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’Next verse!With image