As for God, His way is blameless; The word of the Lord is tried; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

Heed instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

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

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them.

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge.

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.

Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,