The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.

Oh 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.

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

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!

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.

“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.”

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

“Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

“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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

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?

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea.

I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dom

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

And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!