For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.

Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

They need to have close communion with God, lest, under provocation, self rise up, and they pour forth a torrent of words that are unbefitting, that are not as dew or the still showers that refresh the withering plants.

Be careful lest self-sufficiency come in, and you work in your own strength, rather than in the spirit and strength of your Master.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

"Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts?

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little."

So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

I will cry out to God Most High, To God who performs all things for me.

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

If impatient words are spoken to you, never reply in the same spirit. Remember that "a soft answer turneth away wrath." Proverbs 15:. And there is wonderful power in silence. Words spoken in reply to one who is angry sometimes serve only to exasperate. But anger met with silence, in a tender, forbearing spirit, quickly dies away.

Consecrate yourself to God in the morning; make this your very first work. Let your prayer be, 'Take me, O Lord, as wholly Thine. I lay all my plans at Thy feet. Use me today in Thy service. Abide with me, and let all my work be wrought in Thee. This is a daily matter.

If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts, and to strengthen the moral powers rather than the lower and carnal powers. God help us to awake from our self-indulgent appetites! MM 278 LDE 70:

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.

"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame.

Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men-

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

I love the LORD, because He has heard My voice and my supplications.

Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns-broken cisterns that can hold no water.

And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder."

Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days!

A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.

So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You.

Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.

When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.

But those who seek my life, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

They shall fall by the sword; They shall be a portion for jackals.

But the king shall rejoice in God; Everyone who swears by Him shall glory; But the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.”

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

But thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

We love Him because He first loved us.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. ‭‭

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah

There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.

And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.

The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has made desolations in the earth.

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire.

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

I sought the LORD, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

A Psalm of David, when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

But who am I, and who are my people, That we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, And of Your own we have given You.

This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.

My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

O my soul, you have said to the LORD, "You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You."

But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.

but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,