- Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
- And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
- Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
- Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
- Yet I have been the Lord your God
ever since the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
and besides me there is no savior. - Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases. - No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
- For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.
- So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
- These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
- Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- But surely, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life. - To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God. - For God alone my soul waits in silence,
for my hope is from him. - For God alone my soul waits in silence;
from him comes my salvation. - God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble. - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
- Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed. - I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart. - O God, you are my God, I seek you,
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. - May God continue to bless us;
let all the ends of the earth revere him. - He replied, “What is impossible for mortals is possible for God.”
Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.