Archives of verses of December 2024
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place.
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
“Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.
Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Restore us, Lord God Almighty; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”