- How wonderful and delightful it is
for brothers to live together in unity. - If you, then, despite your evil nature, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!
- How can a young man lead a spotless life?
By living according to your word. - How much more valuable a man is than a sheep! Therefore, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
- I know how to live with little, and I know how to live with plenty. In any and all circumstances, I have learned the secret of being well fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.
- Therefore, the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials and to hold the wicked for punishment until the Day of Judgment.
- If anyone is rich in worldly possessions
and sees a brother in need
but refuses to open his heart,
how can the love of God abide in him? - What then shall we say? Should we persist in sin in order that grace may abound? Of course not! We have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?
- A man is joyful when he utters apt answers,
and even more satisfying is a word in season. - He did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us. How then can he fail also to give us everything else along with him?
- It is better to acquire wisdom rather than gold,
and more desirable to acquire understanding rather than silver. - How great is your goodness, O Lord,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and which you bestow on those who take refuge in you,
in the presence of all the people. - How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,
who bears good news and proclaims glad tidings,
announcing salvation and saying to Zion,
“Your God is king.” - Just as you do not know the path of the wind
or how the body is formed in a woman’s womb,
so you do not know the work of God,
the Creator of all. - How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from acts that lead to death so that we may worship the living God.
- Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of your opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all.
- Then Peter came up to him and asked, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy times seven.”
- Consider the ravens. They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn, and yet God feeds them. You are of far greater importance than birds.
- This is how we can be certain
that we abide in him
and that he abides in us:
he has given us a share in his Spirit. - This is how everyone will know
that you are my disciples:
if you love one another. - I have made a covenant with my eyes
not to look with desire upon a virgin. - How great you are, Lord God! There is no one like you, and there is no God except you alone, as everything that we have heard confirms.
- To these God chose to make known how rich is the priceless glory that this mystery brings to the Gentiles—Christ in you, your hope of glory.
- Therefore, take care to live as intelligent people, and do not be like those who are senseless. Make the most of the present time, for this is a wicked age.
Teach us to comprehend how few our days are
so that our hearts may be filled with wisdom.He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress, so that I stand unshaken. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but rather a spirit of power and of love and of wisdom.Next verse!With image