- May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace! - Deliverance belongs to the Lord;
may your blessing be on your people! Selah - Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people. - For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory. - Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. - She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
- But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.”
- As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
- While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
- He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
- Am I now seeking human approval, or God's approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
- Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?
- But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to make this freewill offering? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
- Because you are precious in my sight,
and honored, and I love you,
I give people in return for you,
nations in exchange for your life. - And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.”
- But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”
- Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people.
- Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
- Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man.
- But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
- Turn back, and say to Hezekiah prince of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; indeed, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
How can young people keep their way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.A fool despises a parent's instruction,
but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.