Where the Real News is the Good News

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Don't be misled--you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2   He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’