- A cheerful heart is a good medicine,
but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. - So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
- But those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.
- He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly. - Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite. - And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And all ate and were filled. What was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
- But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
- And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.
- The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. - He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?
- I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth. - The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
the Lord loves the righteous. - See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.
- He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
- But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
- So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.
- But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint. - While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
- And whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. - It is you who light my lamp;
the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
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