- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- So that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
- This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
- There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death. - Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
- It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.
- Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
- Do everything in love.
- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
- The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
- Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is. - For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
- Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
- Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
- I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
- Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
- Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Bible verse of the day
All my longings lie open before you, Lord;my sighing is not hidden from you.