Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints...

"And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

He enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

... In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.

... who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

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

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For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."

"... and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

"They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him."

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"Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

... as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.