“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.

Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.

I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.

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.

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry.

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.

The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”

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,

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

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

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah”.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

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

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. The LORD has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.