- Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior.
- So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
- Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
- You must follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you are to possess.
- Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
- The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility goes before honor. - Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path. - But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
- Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.
- And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
- You show me the path of life.
In your presence there is fullness of joy;
in your right hand are pleasures forevermore. - In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- When you realize your guilt in any of these, you shall confess the sin that you have committed.
- Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?
- Just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
- And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
- And live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
- And having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
- Also that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing, not with their hair braided, or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
- Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
if you find it, you will find a future,
and your hope will not be cut off. - Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
- For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.
- One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
- He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
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