Archives of verses of the period Bible Verses and reflections for Lent period.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.