Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord , “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.

For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.