- Therefore, prepare your minds for action. Be calm and fix your hopes completely on the grace that you will be granted at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- I refrained from eating any choice food, abstaining from consuming meat or wine, and I did not anoint myself until those three weeks had passed.
- If a man has recently been married, he is not to go off to battle nor have any other duty laid on him. He will be free to stay at home for one year so that he can bring happiness to the wife whom he has married.
- But what I tell you is this: Do not swear at all, either by heaven, since it is God’s throne, or by earth, since that is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, since that is the city of the great King.
- A fool is quick to show his anger,
but a prudent man ignores an insult. - 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. - I have made a covenant with my eyes
not to look with desire upon a virgin. - O Lord, at daybreak you hear my voice;
at daybreak I bring my petition before you
and await your reply. - With our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, ignoring its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
- You have heard that it was said of old: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that anyone who looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- And every day, both in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming Jesus as the Christ.
- During the day the Lord grants his kindness,
and at night his praise is with me,
a prayer to the living God. - Hear my prayer, O Lord;
do not be deaf to my cry
or ignore my weeping.
For I am a wayfarer before you,
a nomad like all my ancestors. - The end of all things is near. Therefore, lead disciplined lives and be watchful in prayer.
- No one has ever seen God,
but if we love one another,
God abides in us,
and his love is made complete in us. - Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
- In God alone be at rest, O my soul;
it is from him that my hope comes. - In God alone is my soul at rest;
it is from him that my salvation comes. - He is the reflection of God’s glory
and the perfect expression of his very being,
sustaining all things by his powerful word.
Achieving purification from sins,
he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high. - Exalted at God’s right hand, he received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
- Seek the Lord while he still may be found;
call to him when he is close at hand. - About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- As much as possible, and to the extent of your ability, live in peace with everyone.
- Gaze upon the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or store in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of far greater value than they?
- Do you suppose that I cannot appeal to my Father for help and he will not immediately send me more than twelve legions of angels?
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The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,and his ears are open to their cry.