If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

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

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.”

The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.

‘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.

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

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

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

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Be very careful, then, how you live–not as unwise but as wise,
making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.

For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage–with great patience and careful instruction.

This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.