One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry

Your strength will equal your days.

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

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

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

“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.”

So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

NLT

As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

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

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.

[Don’t give] up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits –
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.