Where the Real News is the Good News

The Lord your God is with you,
    the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
    in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
    but will rejoice over you with singing.”

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

He who finds a wife finds what is good
    and receives favor from the Lord.

As iron sharpens iron,
    so one person sharpens another.

You are my refuge and my shield;

    I have put my hope in your word.

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.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes
    and seek him with all their heart—

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,

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly with your God.

For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

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.

He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.