- Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
- Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.
- Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
- These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- Who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross. - A highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not travel on it,
but it shall be for God's people;
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray. - Although you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
- Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.
- Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will be done.”
- The Lord is just in all his ways,
and kind in all his doings. - For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died.
- But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ —by grace you have been saved—.
- Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me. - And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.
- If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
- No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
- And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.
- Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Pray then in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. - But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.
- This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
- So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
- As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.
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