And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

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You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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

... Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus.

And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

... And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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

"The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!"

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

... Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.