- As a father has compassion for his children,
so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him. - Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly, as if you were doing it for the Lord and not for others, since you know that you will receive from the Lord an inheritance as your reward for you are serving the Lord Christ.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
- But as for me, I will look to the Lord.
I place my hope in God my savior;
my God will hear me. - So we must not fall asleep as the others do, but we must stay alert and sober.
- For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free men, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink.
- As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts above your thoughts. - Beloved,
we are God’s children now.
What we shall be
has not yet been revealed.
However, we do know that when he appears
we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he really is.
Everyone who has this hope in him
keeps himself pure,
just as he is pure. - If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love. - And the shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as they had been told.
- For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so too, through Christ, do we receive our consolation.
- Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to do so.
- I will praise you in sincerity of heart
as I ponder your righteous judgments. - Indeed, fornication and impurity of any kind, as well as greed, should not even be mentioned among you. Such talk is not fitting for saints.
- May the Lord cause your love to increase and overflow for one another and for everyone else, just as our love does for you.
- 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. - Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly.
- All those who have sinned outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.
- As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
- Each person should give as much as he has decided in his heart, not with reluctance or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
- And let us consider how to spur one another to love and good works. Do not neglect to attend your assemblies, as some do, but rather encourage one another, especially since you can see the Day approaching.
- If we are diligent in observing all of these commandments before the Lord, our God, as he commanded of us, then this will be our righteousness.
- O Lord, let your kindness rest upon us,
for we have placed our hope in you. - Beloved, I pray that everything is going well with you and that your bodily health is equal to that of your soul.
- To anyone who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, as I myself overcame and sat with my Father on his throne.
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