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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 placed My bow 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 bow appears in the clouds,I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River:
I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.And to you and your future offspring 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 listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,and you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”
He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey everything that the Lord has commanded.”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 concerning all these words.”
Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands.
You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do.
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.For I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
Though the mountains move and the hills shake, My love will not be removed from you and My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” says your compassionate Lord.
For I Yahweh love justice; I hate robbery and injustice; I will faithfully reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.
“Look, the days are coming” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt — a covenant they broke even though I had married them” — the Lord’s declaration.“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” — the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people.No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them” — this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.
“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous animals in the land, so that they may live 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.I will place My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My statutes and carefully observe My ordinances.
“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave these to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
For this is My blood that establishes the covenant; it is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.
In the same way He also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant established by My blood; it is shed for you.
But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one.
Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,He adds: I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts.
The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me but let you live.Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s household.He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go! ”I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless.This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. This includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring,a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ”So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to You! ”But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring.I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.”
and said, “By Myself I have sworn,” this is the Lord’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed My command.”
The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.”Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.Do not covet your neighbor’s wife or desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.“The Lord spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.You said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.For who out of all mankind has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and lived?Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’“The Lord heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commands always, so that they and their children will prosper forever.He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
Yahweh, You are my God; I will exalt You. I will praise Your name, for You have accomplished wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set My sanctuary among them forever.
“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.For I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say “and to seeds,” as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed, who is Christ.
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise.
But from eternity to eternity the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him, and His righteousness toward the grandchildren
For the Lord says this: “For the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose what pleases Me, and hold firmly to My covenant,I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give each of them an everlasting name that will never be cut off.
“This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute.
And the Lord responded: “Look, I am making a covenant. I will perform wonders in the presence of all your people that have never been done in all the earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the Lord’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.
Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you, and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of anything He has forbidden you.For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the Lord your God will keep His covenant loyalty with you, as He swore to your fathers.He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless your descendants, and the produce of your land — your grain, new wine, and oil — the young of your herds, and the newborn of your flocks, in the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you.
All the Lord’s ways show faithful love and truth to those who keep His covenant and decrees.
This is what the Lord says: I will answer you in a time of favor, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,
“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” — the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. 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, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent continually.I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag — you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah — how he pleads with God against Israel?
The historical record of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amon, Amon fathered Josiah,and Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.Then after the exile to Babylon Jechoniah fathered Shealtiel, Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, Abiud fathered Eliakim, Eliakim fathered Azor,Azor fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Achim, Achim fathered Eliud,Eliud fathered Eleazar, Eleazar fathered Matthan, Matthan fathered Jacob,and Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Messiah.So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, 14 generations.
He has dealt mercifully with our fathers and remembered His holy covenant —the oath that He swore to our father Abraham. He has given us the privilege,
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Messiah, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him. Therefore, the “Amen” is also spoken through Him by us for God’s glory.
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.
The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.
And today the Lord has affirmed that you are His special people as He promised you, that you are to keep all His commands,
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem; He gathers Israel’s exiled people.He has not done this for any nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
Yahweh was standing there beside him, saying, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on.Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. 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 said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am giving you today,love the Lord your God, obey Him, and remain faithful to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land the Lord swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.
“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit who is on you, and My words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth of your children, or from the mouth of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the Lord.
I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken.
But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in My Father’s kingdom with you.”
Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people.He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
I confirm My covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by the waters of a flood; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
“As for Me, My covenant is with you: you will become the father of many nations.Your name will no longer be Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.
the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them. He remains faithful forever,
Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion, and He will receive the mighty as spoil, because He submitted Himself to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
“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 come at their regular time,then also My covenant with My servant David may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers.
And I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone from their bodies and give them a heart of flesh,
This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants — not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all
Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.
When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,
The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.”
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 stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.
If his sons forsake My instruction and do not live by My ordinances,if they dishonor My statutes and do not keep My commands,then I will call their rebellion to account with the rod, their sin with blows.
Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity.Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me because of Your goodness, Lord.
And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Liberator will come from Zion; He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.And this will be My covenant with them when I take away their sins.
He struck the firstborn of the Egyptians His love is eternal.and brought Israel out from among them His love is eternal.with a strong hand and outstretched arm. His love is eternal.
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 you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.
He has sent redemption to His people. He has ordained His covenant forever. His name is holy and awe-inspiring.
Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely. When You make Him a restitution offering, He will see His seed, He will prolong His days, and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t 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 You,
Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have now received this reconciliation through Him.Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a prototype of the Coming One.But the gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man’s trespass the many died, how much more have the grace of God and the gift overflowed to the many by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.And the gift is not like the one man’s sin, because from one sin came the judgment, resulting in condemnation, but from many trespasses came the gift, resulting in justification.Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.
Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.Don’t accuse anyone without cause, when he has done you no harm.Don’t envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;for the devious are detestable to the Lord, but He is a friend to the upright.The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous;He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble.The wise will inherit honor, but He holds up fools to dishonor.Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
This is what the Lord says: I will answer you in a time of favor, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,saying to the prisoners: Come out, and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves. They will feed along the pathways, and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.
Then you will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal; His faithfulness endures through all generations.
So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.
He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants and My blessing on your offspring.
For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor, a lifetime. Weeping may spend the night, but there is joy in the morning.
“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
Your faithfulness is for all generations; You established the earth, and it stands firm.
For the High and Exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this: “I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus — the great Shepherd of the sheep — with the blood of the everlasting covenant,equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.
I delight in Your commands, which I love.I will lift up my hands to Your commands, which I love, and will meditate on Your statutes.
I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your constant love and truth. You have exalted Your name and Your promise above everything else.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.
I will not violate My covenant or change what My lips have said.Once and for all I have sworn an oath by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
“You are My witnesses” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. No god was formed before Me, and there will be none after Me.
remembered His covenant with them, and relented according to the riches of His faithful love.
He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. Lord, Your love is eternal; do not abandon the work of Your hands.
My soul, praise Yahweh! Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with majesty and splendor.He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.The birds of the sky live beside the springs; they sing among the foliage.He waters the mountains from His palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,wine that makes man’s heart glad — making his face shine with oil — and bread that sustains man’s heart.The trees of the Lord flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.There the birds make their nests; the stork makes its home in the pine trees.The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.He made the moon to mark the festivals; the sun knows when to set.He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.How countless are Your works, 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 large and small.There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.All of them wait for You to give them their food at the right time.When You give it to them, they gather it; 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 the dust.laying the beams of His palace on the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,When You send Your breath, 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 at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.May my meditation be pleasing to Him; I will rejoice in the Lord.May sinners vanish from the earth and wicked people be no more. My soul, praise Yahweh! Hallelujah!and making the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.