- And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
- Help us, O God of our salvation!
Help us for the glory of your name.
Save us and forgive our sins
for the honor of your name. - Timothy, my dear son, be strong through the grace that God gives you in Christ Jesus.
- You have tested us, O God;
you have purified us like silver. - Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
- For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
- All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation.
- This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
- Not to us, O Lord, not to us,
but to your name goes all the glory
for your unfailing love and faithfulness. - We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
- No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.
- Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
- The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise. - For the Lord is our judge,
our lawgiver, and our king.
He will care for us and save us. - For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
- “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child.”
- Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and the world,
from beginning to end, you are God. - We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.
- For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful. If you return to him, he will not continue to turn his face from you.
- My child, pay attention to what I say.
Listen carefully to my words.
Don’t lose sight of them.
Let them penetrate deep into your heart. - My child, never forget the things I have taught you.
Store my commands in your heart.
If you do this, you will live many years,
and your life will be satisfying. - He has removed our sins as far from us
as the east is from the west. - Though he was God,
he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to.
Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross. - For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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