- However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- O Lord, all my longing is known to you,
and my sighs are not hidden from you. - Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of your opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all.
- Every day, united in spirit, they would assemble together in the temple. They would break bread in their homes and share their food with joyful and generous hearts as they praised God, and they were regarded with favor by all the people. And day by day the Lord added to those who were being saved.
- I understand that man’s greatest happiness is to be glad and do well throughout his life. And when we eat and drink and find satisfaction in all our labors, this is a gift of God.
- Therefore, take care to live as intelligent people, and do not be like those who are senseless. Make the most of the present time, for this is a wicked age.
- No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
- He gave himself for us in order to deliver us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people as his own who are eager to do good.
- In all of your prayers and entreaties, pray always in the Spirit. To that end, keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.
- Then I came to realize that all toil and skill in work derive from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chase after the wind.
- Let everything that breathes
offer praise to the Lord.
Alleluia. - While physical training has some value, the benefits of godliness are unlimited, since it holds out promise not only for this life but also for the life to come.
- Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
- You are all-beautiful, my love,
without the slightest blemish. - Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from anything that can defile flesh or spirit, and thereby make our holiness perfect in the fear of God.
- I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.” - For Christ is the fulfillment of the Law for the justification of all who believe.
- In my anguish I cried out;
the Lord heard my plea,
and I was saved from all my troubles. - The Lord makes a man’s steps secure
when he approves of his conduct. - For everyone born of God
conquers the world.
And the victory that conquers the world
is our faith. - Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not demand the return of what is yours from the one who has taken it.
- God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, but now he commands people everywhere to repent.
- After this, he said to the crowd, “Take care to be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not depend upon an abundance of one’s possessions.”
- If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
- Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outer self is continuing to decay, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you. I will remove from your body a heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh in its place. Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from anything that can defile flesh or spirit, and thereby make our holiness perfect in the fear of God.Next verse!With image