Where the Real News is the Good News

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

 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:

“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
    I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
    the righteous run to it and are safe.

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

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.

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

Cast your cares on the Lord
    and he will sustain you;
he will never let
    the righteous be shaken.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

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

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.