Where the Real News is the Good News

 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

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.

 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

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

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

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

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

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.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

    my God, in whom I trust.”