- Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
- This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
- Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” - These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
- For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
- It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
- The Lord has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad. - This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
- You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. - And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
- Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- Till the Spirit is poured on us from on high,
and the desert becomes a fertile field,
and the fertile field seems like a forest. - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
- For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Bible verse of the day
Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.