- For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.
- Anxiety weighs down the human heart,
but a good word cheers it up. - Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.
- He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
and obtains favor from the Lord. - A person's pride will bring humiliation,
but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. - Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight. But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
- Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all counted. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
- But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. - You are indeed my rock and my fortress;
for your name's sake lead me and guide me. - Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
- A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold. - And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
- For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
- What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them? - Lead me in your truth, and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all day long. - I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.
- Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.
- Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved;
for you are my praise. - Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another. - You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am.
- For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light.
- He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) - Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I fear no evil;
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff—
they comfort me. - He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last. Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
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