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Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
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since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
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Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
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They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
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They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
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But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
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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
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and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
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may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
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and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
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to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
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See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
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and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
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let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
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Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
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Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
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because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
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Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
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Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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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,
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fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.