- Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
- Hear my prayer, Lord,
listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors were. - Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
- However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
- In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. - For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
- If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
- Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
- When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
- As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
- Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
- For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
- And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.
- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
- But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
- Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants. - For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Bible verse of the day
Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.