For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Truly He is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea...
I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
We will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.