If you love me, keep my commands.

He answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right.

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for 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.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 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.

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.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

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.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.