- Great peace have those who love your law,
and nothing can make them stumble. - Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you. - I will walk about in freedom,
for I have sought out your precepts. - I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
- But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
- Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
- I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
- I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you. - My lips will shout for joy
when I sing praise to you—
I whom you have delivered. - I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life. - But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
My feet have closely followed his steps;
I have kept to his way without turning aside. - Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
- Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
- God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
- I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
- I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
- Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor. - Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
- Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
- If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
- If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.Next verse!With image