- You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
- The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it. - The clever see danger and hide;
but the simple go on, and suffer for it. - You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from destruction. - And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.
- The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate. - For the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.
- And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.”
- And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- And live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
- And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
- The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low, he also exalts. - They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
- For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
- If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- And whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped. He said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
- Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?