- Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations,
I am exalted in the earth. - For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
- The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.
- The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters. - Am I now seeking human approval, or God's approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a ruler. - For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
- While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
- Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.
- Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him;
do not fret over those who prosper in their way,
over those who carry out evil devices. - Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
- So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
- Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
- Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil.
- May God continue to bless us;
let all the ends of the earth revere him. - If any of you sin without knowing it, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, you have incurred guilt, and are subject to punishment.
- Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
- If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
- Seek the Lord while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near. - Even to your old age I am he,
even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save. - I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living. - And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.
- 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?
- Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken. You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.Next verse!With image