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You are my refuge and my shield;
    I have put my hope in your word.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Because your love is better than life,
    my lips will glorify you.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
    and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

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

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;
Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

You are my refuge and my shield;
    I have put my hope in your word.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
    and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.