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

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him,

But the free gift is not like the trespass.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank.

"'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!'"

With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.

"But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go.

And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, t

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live.

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.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

'Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.