- Brethren, if anyone is detected committing a transgression, you who are spiritual must set him right in a spirit of gentleness. Meanwhile, you should take care so that you yourselves are not tempted.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
- Out of the same mouth flow blessings and curses. This should not be so, my brethren.
- While experiencing temptation, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Of course not!
- You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, am holy. I have chosen you from among all people that you shall be mine.
- The brother who is in modest circumstances should take pride in being raised up. Likewise, the one who is rich should glory in being brought low, for he will disappear like a flower of the field.
- I also ask that the women should dress themselves modestly and decently in suitable clothing. They should be adorned not with braided hair or with gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good works, as is fitting for women who profess their reverence for God.
- So if I, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also should wash one another’s feet. - I understand that man’s greatest happiness is to be glad and do well throughout his life. And when we eat and drink and find satisfaction in all our labors, this is a gift of God.
- Everything that you do should be done in love.
- For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may attain eternal life. - Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
- Beloved,
since God loved us so much,
we should love one another. - What then shall we say? Should we persist in sin in order that grace may abound? Of course not! We have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?
- Remember this, my beloved brethren: everyone should be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to anger.
- Even if an army encamps against me,
my heart will not succumb to fear;
even if war breaks out against me,
I will not have my trust shaken. - By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation.
- Instruct those who are rich in this world’s goods that they should not be proud, nor should they trust in the uncertainty of riches but rather in God who richly provides us with everything we need for our enjoyment.
- Finally, all of you should be united in spirit, sympathetic, filled with love for one another, compassionate, and humble.
- If someone among you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
- What is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him? - One person may consider one day to be more sacred than another, while another may judge all days to be alike. Let everyone be convinced in his own beliefs.
- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works that God had prepared for us to do.
- This is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.’
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Bible verse of the day
Behold, he is coming with the clouds;every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him.
All the peoples of the earth will mourn him.
So shall it be. Amen.