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VERSES FOR OFFERINGS
Think about giving – it's truly beautiful in God's eyes. When you're preparing your offering, remember it should be your best, given with a sincere heart. It should be a joyful act, knowing how much God has already blessed us with, even when we don't deserve it. He's been incredibly generous, hasn't He?
If you only give what's leftover, well, life might just mirror that back to you. Think about it – give as if you're giving to yourself. Don't do it out of obligation or because you expect something in return. True giving comes from the heart.
Don't make a big show of it either. It's not about getting praised or patted on the back. Let your giving be a quiet act between you and God. He sees what's in your heart, and He loves a cheerful giver. Remember what it says in 2 Corinthians 9:7: "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."
Giving is an act of worship, a way to give back a portion of what God has already given us. And when God gives, He gives abundantly. When you offer from the heart, you're opening the door for even more blessings. The more you give, the more you receive. It's a beautiful cycle.
I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.For I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.
Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.
Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.” Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.The Lord, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”So Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” The Lord spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,and you said, “Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?Go near and listen to all that the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”And the Lord heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
O Lord, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders— plans formed long ago— in perfect faithfulness.
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
For this is what the Lord says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the Lord, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
And the Lord said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the Lord’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.
Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the Lord your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
All the Lord’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
This is what the Lord says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.” I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministryin the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud.Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
And today the Lord has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
And there at the top the Lord was standing and saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,and that you may love the Lord your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the Lord.
I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the Lord, have spoken.
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
Remember, O Lord, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O Lord.
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.and brought Israel out from among them His loving devotion endures forever.with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.
“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification.For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;for the Lord detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble. The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
This is what the Lord says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
For the Lord is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
I delight in Your commandments because I love them.I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
“You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. O Lord, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.The birds of the air nest beside the springs; they sing among the branches.He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.The trees of the Lord have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses. The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers. He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.How many are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in His works.He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the Lord.May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Hallelujah!He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants. He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.