Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.

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

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”