- Let it be known to you therefore, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; by this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
- See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.
- He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
and it is better to be poor than a liar. - God is not a human being, that he should lie,
or a mortal, that he should change his mind.
Has he promised, and will he not do it?
Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? - Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
- Just as water reflects the face,
so one human heart reflects another. - Happy are those who find wisdom,
and those who get understanding. - This poor soul cried, and was heard by the Lord,
and was saved from every trouble. - Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another. - The fear of others lays a snare,
but one who trusts in the Lord is secure. - One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
- For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
- A perverse person spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends. - The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
- A fool gives full vent to anger,
but the wise quietly holds it back. - How can young people keep their way pure?
By guarding it according to your word. - For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
- Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.
- O taste and see that the Lord is good;
happy are those who take refuge in him. - There is a way that seems right to a person,
but its end is the way to death. - But he answered, “It is written,
‘One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” - Before destruction one's heart is haughty,
but humility goes before honor. - Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the Lord your God disciplines you.
- I, I am he who comforts you;
why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die,
a human being who fades like grass?
Wealth is a ransom for a person's life,
but the poor get no threats.Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory. Selah Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.Next verse!With image