The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.

Trust in the Lord forever, because in the Lord, the Lord himself, is an everlasting rock!

Blessed be the Lord! Day after day he bears our burdens; God is our salvation.

The Lord your God is among you, a warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will be quiet in his love. He will delight in you with singing.

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

We love because he first loved us.

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?

Do everything without grumbling and arguing, 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,