In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

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— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

For nothing will be impossible with God.

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 

Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.  And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry to him reached his ears.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.