Archives of verses of January 2024
Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Surely the righteous will never be shaken; they will be remembered forever.
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
For we live by faith, not by sight.
Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.
For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.