- Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
- The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away. - When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me. - For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
- Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. - Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love. - When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
and because I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you,
nations in exchange for your life. - Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. - After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
- You make your saving help my shield,
and your right hand sustains me;
your help has made me great.
You provide a broad path for my feet,
so that my ankles do not give way. - Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
- He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land. - Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
- Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths. - Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Bible verse of the day
Many are the plans in a person’s heart,but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.