- It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
- Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.
- And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
- He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God. - And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance. - May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill? - Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me. - Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
- The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
- 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.
- Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
- For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” - Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.”
- For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
- Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
- Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
Bible verse of the day
Help us, God our Savior,for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.