- No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.
- For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
- On God rests my salvation and my glory;
my mighty rock, my refuge is God. - The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night. - Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. - For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
- For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. - As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
- Your testimonies are my heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart. - Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.
- Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
- For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
- But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
- Honor widows who are truly widows.
- I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
- Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’? - Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
and his ears toward their cry. - Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight. - Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
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