- But as for me, I will look to the Lord,
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me. - Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
- If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
- No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
- 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.
- The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.”
- For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.
- So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. - Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
- And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
- No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
- Yet I have been the Lord your God
ever since the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
and besides me there is no savior. - Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases. - No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
- So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
- Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
- And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
- These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- But surely, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life. - To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
For God alone my soul waits in silence;
from him comes my salvation.But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good repute
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