- But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
- Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
- 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.
- However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
- You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
- To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
- He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
- For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
- The unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple. - And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.
- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
- As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things. - My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline,
and do not resent his rebuke,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
as a father the son he delights in. - Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
- A person’s riches may ransom their life,
but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes. - Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—
how much worse lying lips to a ruler! - Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness. - He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
- My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Bible verse of the day
Who is he, this King of glory?The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.