So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. ... In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.

“You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me ... For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you... They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

Therefore put on the full armor of God ... Stand firm then, with the belt of truth ... the breastplate of righteousness ... the gospel of peace ... the shield of faith ... the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

“I have the right to do anything,” ... —but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.

See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.

Then he said to them all: If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never go thirsty.

Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy. But I came to give life--life in all its fullness.