- For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
- For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
- Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.
- You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am.
- Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!
- You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. Selah - Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
- Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you. - So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
- You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.
- In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
- I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!
- But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you.
- I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness. - Of all that live in water you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.
- I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah - Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
- To you, O God of my ancestors,
I give thanks and praise,
for you have given me wisdom and power,
and have now revealed to me what we asked of you,
for you have revealed to us what the king ordered. - If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.
- For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
- Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
- What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them? - You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.
- And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.
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