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,

Above all else, guard your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

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

Like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of fools. This too is meaningless.

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.