- For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
- Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
- Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
- I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I look upon a virgin? - All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
“Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel,”
which means, “God is with us.”
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid? See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.Next verse!With image