Obey your leaders and submit to their authority. They keep watch over you as men who must give an account. Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

He changes times and seasons;
he sets up kings and deposes them.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the LORD.

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes
and has them inherit a throne of honor.
“For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s;
upon them he has set the world.

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

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.

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

A man’s wisdom gives him patience;
it is to his glory to overlook an offense.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life,
but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.

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

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.

For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.