This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is the house you will build for Me? Where will My resting place be?”

For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in His dwelling; He will hide me in the shelter of His tabernacle and set me high upon a rock.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid?

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Going a little farther, He fell with His face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.

But in keeping with His promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.

For the director of music. Of David the servant of the Lord. He sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Jesus answered, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.