- God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? - For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it. - The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
- I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you. - Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
- But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
- But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
- Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
- But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
- You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
- Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
- See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
- In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
- I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
- He who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty. - For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
- One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory! Selah