- My salvation and my honor depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge. - For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
- In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night. - But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
- Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. - “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. - Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart. - For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
- Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
- Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life. - I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
- Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
- If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry. - Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
- Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
- I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
- But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Bible verse of the day
A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.