- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.
- Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
- I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope. - But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.
- If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident. - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
- These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- 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.
- The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me? - Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
- I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- For this is what the high and exalted One says—
he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
“I live in a high and holy place,
but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and to revive the heart of the contrite.” - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
- I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
- Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely. - Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. - For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
- I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
- But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
- Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’
Bible verse of the day
As water reflects the face,so one’s life reflects the heart.