- The heart is more deceitful than any other thing,
and it is also perverse.
Who can uncover its secrets?
I, the Lord, search the heart
and probe the mind
to reward all according to their conduct
and as their deeds deserve. - No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
- If you forgive others for the wrongs they have done, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- And if one should fall,
his companion will help him up.
How pathetic is the man who is alone and falls
and has no one to assist him to his feet. - Because in my eyes you are precious,
because you are honored and I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you
and nations in return for your life. - This is my commandment:
love one another
as I have loved you. - Brethren, we must always give thanks to God for you, and it is only right that we do so. For your faith grows ever more, and the love that all of you have for one another continues to increase.
- For I am longing to see you so that I may bestow on you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— or, rather, so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
- But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.
- Whom do I have in heaven except you?
And besides you there is nothing else I desire on earth. - Owe nothing to anyone except the debt of love you owe one another. The one who loves others has fulfilled the Law.
- Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
- Do not make gods from silver or from gold instead of me. You will not make them for yourselves.
- Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by mutual consent for a specified time so as to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you by taking advantage of your lack of self-control.
- Above all, maintain the fervor of your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves.
- Recognizing that laws are not designed for the upright. They are for the lawless and insubordinate, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and irreligious; they are for those who slay their fathers and mothers, for murderers, for those who are fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been entrusted to me.
- On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
- About midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- But I have had help from God to this very day, and I stand here and testify to both the lowly and the great. I assert nothing more than what the Prophets and Moses said would occur: that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light to the people and to the Gentiles.
- Love one another with genuine affection. Esteem others more highly than yourself.
- May the God of perseverance and encouragement grant that you may live in harmony with one another, following in the example of Jesus Christ.
- Woe to anyone who rises up against his Maker,
or to the pot that is displeased with the potter.
Does the clay say to the one who molds it,
“What are you doing?
Your work makes no sense.” - Therefore, we love because he first loved us.
- I give you a new commandment:
love one another.
Just as I have loved you,
so you should also love one another.
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