May he give you what your heart desires and fulfill your whole purpose.

Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

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

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was.

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared.

So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ would be born.

“Come, let us settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.