- I am the Lord, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You know no God but me,
nor any savior other than me. - Keep in mind, therefore, that the Lord, your God, is God. He is a faithful God who keeps his covenant of mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and observe his commandments.
- Those who live according to the flesh can never be pleasing to God.
- While experiencing temptation, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- Hence, be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- However, God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit explores everything, even the depths of God.
- Surely God is my helper;
the Lord is the one who sustains me. - To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- To do your will, O God, is my delight;
your law is in my heart. - Arise, O Lord! Lift up your hand, O God!
Do not forget the afflicted. - Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God. - In God alone is my soul at rest;
it is from him that my salvation comes. - In God alone be at rest, O my soul;
it is from him that my hope comes. - Why are you so disheartened, O my soul?
Why do you sigh within me?
Place your hope in God;
for I will once again praise him,
my Savior and my God. - He replied, “What is impossible for men is possible for God.”
- May God continue to bless us
and be revered to the ends of the earth. - Therefore, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God, since those who enter into God’s rest also cease from their own labors as God did from his.
- Beloved,
since God loved us so much,
we should love one another. - God is our refuge and our strength,
a well-proved help in times of trouble. - Do you not realize that you are God’s temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- As a deer longs for running streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God. - O God, you are my God,
for whom I have been searching earnestly.
My soul yearns for you
and my body thirsts for you,
like the earth when it is parched,
arid and without water. - For you, O God, have put us to the test;
you have purified us as silver is refined. - You, O Lord, are light for my lamp;
O my God, you make my darkness turn to light. - Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a resolute spirit within me.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.And just as no human being comprehends any person’s innermost being except the person’s own spirit within him, so also no one comprehends what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may grow rich in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.Next verse!With image