Where the Real News is the Good News

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

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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—

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 

Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

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

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

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.

You make known to me the path of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,
    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

As iron sharpens iron,
    so one person sharpens another.

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,

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

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

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

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

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

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Gray hair is a crown of splendor;
    it is attained in the way of righteousness.