[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you–they are full of the Spirit and life.

What shall I return to the LORD for all his goodness to me?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord–that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved–you and your household.”

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.