- Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares about you.
- What then can we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, it will be enough for us.”
- The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but worldly cares and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.
- We have come to know
and to believe in
the love that God has for us.
God is love,
and whoever abides in love
abides in God,
and God in him. - Entrust your cares to the Lord,
and he will uphold you;
he will never allow the righteous to waver. - And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a sacrificial offering whose fragrance is pleasing to God.
- For you, O God, have put us to the test;
you have purified us as silver is refined. - For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works that God had prepared for us to do.
- 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.
- Our temporary light afflictions are preparing for us an incomparable weight of eternal glory.
- Help us, O God, our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and wipe away our sins
for your name’s sake. - May the Lord, our God, be with us, just as he was with our fathers; may he not leave us or abandon us.
- Indeed, it is seldom that anyone will die for a just person, although perhaps for a good person someone might be willing to die. Thus, God proved his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
- I then heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
- When my anxious thoughts multiplied,
your comfort filled my soul with joy. - But God is rich in his mercy, and because he had such great love for us, he brought us to life with Christ when we were already dead through sin—it is by grace that you have been saved.
- This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren. - For us there is
one God, the Father,
from whom all things are
and for whom we exist,
and one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things are
and through whom we exist. - No one has ever seen God,
but if we love one another,
God abides in us,
and his love is made complete in us. - My soul thirsts for God, the living God.
When shall I come to behold the face of God? - In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words.
- Beloved,
let us love one another,
because love is from God.
Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. - However, God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit explores everything, even the depths of God.
- For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but rather a spirit of power and of love and of wisdom.
For nothing will be impossible for God.Keep alert; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. For I know full well the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for your misfortune, plans that will offer you a future filled with hope.Next verse!With image