Where the Real News is the Good News

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

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

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

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.

Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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

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

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

When anxiety was great within me,
    your consolation brought me joy.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

“I the Lord search the heart
    and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”

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—

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

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,