For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

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

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.