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Luke 18:18-27 18  A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 19  “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.  20  You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’[ a ]” 21  “All these I have kept since I was...

Proverbs 3:5-10 Trust in the Lord with all your heart    and lean not on your own understanding; 6  in all your ways submit to him,    and he will make your paths straight.[ a ] 7  Do not be wise in your own eyes;   fear the Lord and shun evil. 9  Honor the Lord with your wealth,    with the first fruits of all your crops; 10  then your barns will be filled to overflowing,  and your vats will brim...

Romans 12:1 NIV and MSG Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing wha...

Psalm 136 Selected Verses Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. 2  Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. 3  Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever. He remembered us in our low estate His love endures forever. 24  and freed us from our enemies. His love endures forever. 25  He gives food to every creature. His love endures forever...

Philippians 3:7-11 7  But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  8  What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ  9  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is...

Psalm 100 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3  Know that the Lord is God.     It is he who made us, and we are his[ a ]; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4  Enter his gates with thanksgiving  and his courts with praise;     give thanks to him and praise his name. 5  For the Lord is good and his love endures for...

Colossians 3:12-14 12  Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  13  Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  14  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Colossians 3:15-17 15  Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.  16  Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.  17  And whatever you do,  whether in word or deed, do i...

Colossians 3:12-17 12  Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  13  Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  14  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. 15  Let the peac...

Galatians 5:16-26 selected verses 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[ c ] you want.  19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idola...

Romans 12:1-13 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  2  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. 3  For by the...

Ephesians 4:11-16 11  So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,  12  to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up  13  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14  Then we will no longer be infan...

Ephesians 4:1-7 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.  2  Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.  3  Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.  4  There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;  5  one Lord, one faith...

Ephesians 2:13,19-22   13  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 19  Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,  20  built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.  21  In him the whole buildin...

1 Corinthians 12:12-20 12  Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.  13  For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  14  Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15  Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a h...

1 Peter 2:4-10 4  As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—  5  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …… You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the prais...

Matthew 9:9-13 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collec...

John 8:3-11 3  The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group  4  and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.  5  In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”  6  They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and...

Psalm 66:16-20 16  Come and hear, all you who fear God;    let me tell you what he has done for me. 17  I cried out to him with my mouth;    his praise was on my tongue. 18  If I had cherished sin in my heart,    the Lord would not have listened; 19  but God has surely listened    and has heard my prayer. 20  Praise be to God,    who has not rejected my prayer    or withheld his love from me!

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is...

Daniel 9:17-19 17  “Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary.  18  Give ear, our God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.  19  Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For...

1 John 1:8-2:2 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. 2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we...

Luke 18:1-8 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.  2  He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.  3  And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ 4  “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even...

Colossians 4:2-6 – C5 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. 5 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6 Let your conversation be always full of gr...

Matthew 6:9-13 9  Jesus said, “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven,     hallowed be your name,   your kingdom come,  your will be done,     on earth as it is in heaven. 11  Give us today our daily bread. 12  And forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13  And lead us not into temptation,[ a ]  but deliver us from the evil one.[ b ]’