For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

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

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory,

God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.

And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.