- 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? - For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
- I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you. - Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?
- And every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father. - But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- But I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
- Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.
- Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”
- Train children in the right way,
and when old, they will not stray. - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
- Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth. - See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
- What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
- I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
- I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.
- My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.
- Those who withhold kindness from a friend
forsake the fear of the Almighty. - But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated.
- You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory. Selah Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.Next verse!With image