- But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
- For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
- But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
- His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
- For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
- But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
- Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
- Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
- They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
- Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.
- Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
- Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
- Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
- When anyone becomes aware that they are guilty in any of these matters, they must confess in what way they have sinned.
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
- A gossip betrays a confidence,
but a trustworthy person keeps a secret. - We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
Bible verse of the day
“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;
and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”
So shall it be! Amen.