- 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.
- From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
- 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.
- What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
- Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.
- I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I look upon a virgin? - You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.
- Also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
- For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;
that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,
not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God. - Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
- When I thought, “My foot is slipping,”
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. - Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war rise up against me,
yet I will be confident. - Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.”
- Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
- In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them? - Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair, and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing; rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight.
- Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other.
- Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike. Let all be fully convinced in their own minds.
- For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
- What then should we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
- I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
- Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
- Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
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Be still, and know that I am God!I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth.