- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. - When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
- I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth. - He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
- When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. - Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
- Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
- Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- Anxiety weighs down the heart,
but a kind word cheers it up. - The Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous. - Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
- How abundant are the good things
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you bestow in the sight of all,
on those who take refuge in you. - Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands. - And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness. - Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy. - The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
- They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
- But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
- A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends. - He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
Bible verse of the day
As far as the east is from the west,so far has he removed our transgressions from us.