From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you. Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.”

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

And I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him."

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”