Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you.

Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

(NLT)

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;

And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

“No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD.

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.

The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!

Teach me your way, LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.