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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.
My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth.And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds.Then I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again cause the destruction of all flesh.
On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river,
And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land in which you are living as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God.”
And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, for all the earth is mine,but you, you will belong to me as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
And he took the scroll of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen.”And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and he said, “Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them before you, and in order to confirm the promise that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And you must diligently observe the words of this covenant, so that you may succeed in all that you do.
“See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster;what I am commanding you today is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land where you are going.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway,” says Yahweh, who has compassion on you,
For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and injustice, and I will faithfully give their reward, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Look, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day of my grasping them by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them,” declares Yahweh.“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest and up to their greatest,” declares Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember.”
And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animals from the land, and they will dwell in the desert safely, and they will sleep in the forest.
And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.And I will give my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will go in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them.
“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. This required reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe before my name.
for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
And in the same way the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.
But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second.
And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
“This is the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”He also says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will never remember again.”
And Yahweh said to Abram, “Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you.And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.And it happened that as he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful of appearance,and it shall happen that, if the Egyptians see you, then they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ then they will kill me but let you live.Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. Then I will live on account of you.”And it happened that as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her beauty to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram.Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?Why did you say ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go.”And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that was with him away.And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, “I am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blamelessThis is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and also with your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.And at eight days of age you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner who is not from your offspring.You must certainly circumcise the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner. And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant.And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.And God said to Abraham, “as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name.And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations. Kings of peoples shall come from her.”And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.so that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you exceedingly.”
And he said, “I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies.All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice.”
And Yahweh said to Moses, “Write for yourself these words, because according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.‘And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor.‘And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’“These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and he did not add anything, and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.And then when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,you said, ‘Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God can speak with a human being, yet he remains alive.And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if we continue to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die?For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have heard it and remained alive?You go near and hear everything that Yahweh our God will say; and then you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do it.’“And Yahweh heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and Yahweh said to me, ‘I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they are right with respect to all that they have spoken.If only they had such a mind’; that is, to fear me and to keep all my commandments at all times, so that it will go well for them and for their children forever.It was not with our ancestors that Yahweh made this covenant, but with these of us who are here alive today.
Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans of old, in faithfulness, trustworthiness.
But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace; an everlasting covenant it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them forever.
“Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them.For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith.
Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, when the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares it invalid or adds additional provisions to it.Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, “and to descendants,” as concerning many, but as concerning one, “and to your descendant,” who is Christ.
And if you are Christ’s, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.
But the loyal love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to their children’s children,
For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant.And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
“And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute.
And he said, “Look, I am about to make a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders that have not been created on all the earth and among all the nations, and all the people among whom you are will see Yahweh’s work, because what I am about to do with you will be awesome.
Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden,for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
“And then because you listen to these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain his covenant and his loyal love that he swore to your ancestors.And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and newborn calves of your cattle, and the newborn lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you.
All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes.
Thus says Yahweh: “I have answered you in a time of favor, and helped you on a day of salvation, and watched over you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.
And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.
Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend continually.”I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry,if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them.For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead?Now if the first fruits are holy, so also is the whole batch of dough, and if the root is holy, so also are the branches.Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree’s richness,do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root supports you.Then you will say, “Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in.”God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel?
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.and Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh became the father of Amon, and Amon became the father of Josiah,and Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel,and Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud, and Abiud became the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim became the father of Azor,and Azor became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Achim, and Achim became the father of Eliud,and Eliud became the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar became the father of Matthan, and Matthan became the father of Jacob,and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ are fourteen generations.
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant us
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’
who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the temple service, and the promises,to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are “yes”; therefore also through him is the “amen” to the glory of God through us.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things that are written in the book of the law to do them.”Now it is clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because “the one who is righteous will live by faith.”But the law is not from faith, but “the one who does these things will live by them.”Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”in order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The Holy Spirit was making this clear, that the way into the holy place was not yet revealed, while the first tent was still in existence,which was a symbol for the present time, in which both the gifts and sacrifices which were offered were not able to perfect the worshiper with respect to the conscience,
And Yahweh has declared you today to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments,
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.Yahweh is building Jerusalem; he gathers the scattered ones of Israel.He has not done so for any nation, and they do not know his ordinances. Praise Yah.
And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him, and he said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.Now behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you.”
And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.
I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,and you return to Yahweh and you listen to his voice according to all that I am commanding you today, both you and your children, with all your heart and with all your inner self,by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”
but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion that he loved.And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
“And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have placed in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
And I, Yahweh, I will be for them as God, and my servant David will be a leader in the midst of them. I, Yahweh, I have spoken.
But I tell you, from now on I will never drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and has redeemed his people,and 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 those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself.”
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him.For “everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,
I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth.”
“As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, the one who keeps faith forever,
Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many, and with the strong ones he will divide bounty, because he poured his life out to death and was counted with the transgressors; and he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.
“Thus says Yahweh: ‘If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time,then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from having a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,
Because of this, it is by faith, in order that it may be according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, when the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares it invalid or adds additional provisions to it.
But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption.
“Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them.
“This is the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
And Yahweh said to Moses, “Write for yourself these words, because according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
And because he loved your ancestors he chose their descendants after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence, by his great strength,to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you, to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.
If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments,then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds.
Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they are from of old.Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me if you will, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.
and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, “The deliverer will come out of Zion; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.And this is the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins.”
To him who struck Egypt through their firstborn, for his loyal love endures forever.And he brought Israel out from among them, for his loyal love endures forever.With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loyal love endures forever.
“Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
because you know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb
He has sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever; holy and fearful is his name.
Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If she places his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.From the trouble of his life he will see; he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous, and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.
But go and learn what it means, “I want mercy and not sacrifice.” For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you.
Therefore, because 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, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.And not only this, but also we are boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one’s account when there is no law.But death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who is to come.But the gift is not like the trespass, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.And the gift is not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one sin led to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, led to justification.For if by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.Consequently therefore, as through one trespass came condemnation to all people, so also through one righteous deed came justification of life to all people.For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.
May loyal love and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart.Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm.Do not envy a man of violence, and do not choose any of his ways,for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright are his confidence.The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses.With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor.They will inherit the honor of the wise, but stubborn fools, disgrace.And you shall find favor and good sense in the eyes of God and humankind.
Thus says Yahweh: “I have answered you in a time of favor, and helped you on a day of salvation, and watched over you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,saying to the prisoners, “Come out!” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves!” they shall feed along the ways, and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights.
And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your ancestors, and you will be to me as a people, and I will be to you as God.
For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness is from generation to generation.
And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.
For I will pour out water on a thirsty land and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.
For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, “But the one who is righteous by faith will live.”
Your faithfulness endures throughout all generations. You have established the earth and it stands.
For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy: “I reside in a high and holy place, and with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,equip you with every good thing to do his will, carrying out in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.
And I will take delight in your commands, which I love.And I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name.
You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation.
Come and consider the works of God; he is awesome in his dealings with the children of humankind.
I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.Once I have sworn by my holiness, ‘I will surely not lie to David,
But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
“You are my witnesses,” declares Yahweh, “and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe in me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none shall be after me.
And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God
Yahweh accomplishes things for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love endures forever; do not abandon the works of your hands.
Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty,You are the one who sends forth springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.They give drink for every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.Along them the birds of the heavens abide. From among the branches they sing.You are the one who waters the mountains from his upper chambers. The earth is full with the fruit of your labors:who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth,and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man.The trees of Yahweh drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,where birds make their nest. The stork has its home in the fir trees.The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.He made the moon for appointed times; the sun knows its time for setting.you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest creep about.The young lions are roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God.When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening.How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.This is the great and wide sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great.There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.They all wait for you to give them their food at the proper time.You give to them; they gather it. You open your hand, they are filled with what is good.You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides on the wings of the wind,You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.May the glory of Yahweh endure forever. May Yahweh be glad in his works,the one who looks at the earth and it quakes, and touches the mountains and they smoke.I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praise to my God while I remain alive.May my meditation be pleasing to him. I will be glad in Yahweh.Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and the wicked not remain alive. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah.who makes his messengers the winds, his attendants a flame of fire.He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.