All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness…

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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

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

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

For we live by faith, not by sight.

Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

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

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.

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

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.