Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people, and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”