- But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
- All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
- You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.
- Cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
- Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists,” and that “there is no God but one.”
- Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
- For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.
- Seek the Lord while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near. - Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”.
- All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
“Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel,”
which means, “God is with us.” - Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out.
- Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.
- And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. - For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
Seek me and live. - So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.
- I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.
- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- Because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
- And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
- May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
- Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?
- If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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