- No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
- On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is in God. - There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
- For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.
- While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- For a thousand years in your sight
are like yesterday when it is past,
or like a watch in the night. - Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
or sit in the seat of scoffers. - Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. - For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. - For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
- Your decrees are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart. - You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
- Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul. - Who are you to pass judgment on servants of another? It is before their own lord that they stand or fall. And they will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
- The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry. - 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.
- “All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
- Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- This Jesus is
‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders;
it has become the cornerstone.’ - Above all, my beloved, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
- I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.
- Honor widows who are really widows.
- Woe to you who strive with your Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter!
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?
or “Your work has no handles”? - Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight.
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