Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life."

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; make and female he created them.

The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens.

You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

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

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

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live.

This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

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

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.