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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 cloud, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.When I bring a cloud over the earth, the rainbow will be seen in the cloud;then I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
On that same 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 Euphrates River —
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
Now therefore, if you will faithfully obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.And you will be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the Israelites.”
He took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.”So Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold, 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, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations,
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all you do.
See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, and death and disaster.What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. Then the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.
For the mountains may be removed, and the hills may shake, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you.
For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; and I will faithfully give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.It will not be according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they broke My covenant, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord.But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law within them and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.They shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the wild beasts to cease from the land so that they dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
My covenant with him was for life and peace, and I gave them to him. With awe he feared Me, and he was reverent before My name.
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
In like manner, He took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood which is shed for you.
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, because He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no occasion would have been sought for a second.
For this reason He is the Mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the sins that were committed under the first covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”then He adds, “Their sins and lawless deeds will I remember no more.”
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, your family, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.Now there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there, for the famine was severe in the land.When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know you are a beautiful woman.Therefore, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will then kill me, but they will let you live.Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.”So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh’s house.He treated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep and livestock, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Abram’s wife, Sarai.So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What have you done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now here is your wife; take her and leave.”I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you, and in you all families of the earth will be blessed.”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am Almighty God. Walk before Me and be blameless.This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you; every male among you shall be circumcised.You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Every male throughout every generation that is eight days old shall be circumcised, whether born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner who is not your descendant.He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.Any uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised shall be cut off from his people. He has broken My covenant.”Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”Then God said, “No, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.And I will make My covenant between you and Me and will exceedingly multiply you.”
and said, “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.Through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Then the Lord said to Moses: Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you covet your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.These are the words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.When you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain did burn with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.And you said, “Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man, yet he lives.Now, therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we will die.For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say. Then speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.”The Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me, “I have heard the sound of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, we who are living now and here today.
O Lord, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things; Your plans formed of old are faithfulness and truth.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them and will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill.For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one dot or one mark will pass from the law until all be fulfilled.
It was not through the law that Abraham and his descendants received the promise that he would be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
Brothers, I am speaking in human terms: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.Now the promises were made to Abraham and his Seed. He does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your Seed,” meaning one, who is Christ.
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children,
For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant,to them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, and a name better than that of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
This day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord. Throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an eternal ordinance.
Then He said: Behold, I am making a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I will do with you.
Watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which He made with you, and make yourself a graven image or the likeness of anything as the Lord your God has forbidden you.For the Lord your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God.
If you listen to these judgments, keep them, and do them, then the Lord your God shall keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.
All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth, for those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
Thus says the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you as a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to make them inherit the desolate lands,
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law within them and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
I say then, has God rejected His people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and always bow down their backs.”I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.Now if their transgression means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean?For I am speaking to you Gentiles. So then, in as much as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,if by any means I may make my kinsmen jealous and might save some of them.For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?If the first portion of the dough is holy, the batch is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the root and richness of the olive tree,do not boast against the branches. If you boast, remember you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.You will say then, “The branches were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.”God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
The book 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, and Amon the father of Josiah.Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were exiled to Babylon.And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel.Zerubbabel was 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 Akim, and Akim the father of Eliud.Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob.And Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the exile to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the exile in Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,the oath which He swore to our father Abraham,
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises,to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, who is over all, God forever blessed. Amen.
For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes,” and in Him “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.
For all who rely on the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them.”Now it is evident that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, for “The just shall live by faith.”But the law is not of faith, for “The man who does them shall live by them.”Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us—as it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” —so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Then indeed, the first covenant had ordinances for divine services and an earthly sanctuary.
The Holy Spirit was signifying through this that the way into the Most Holy Place was not yet revealed, because the first outer part of the tabernacle was still standing.This is an illustration for the present time, showing that the gifts and sacrifices offered could not perfect the conscience of those who worshipped,
And the Lord has affirmed today that you are His special people, just as He has promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments.
He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.He has not dealt so with any nation; and as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise the Lord!
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you will I give it and to your descendants.Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.Behold, I am with you and will keep 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 promised you.”
Then God said, “No, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;then you must return to the Lord your God and obey His voice according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul.that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.
but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loves.He built His sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth that He has established forever.
As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says the Lord: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendants’ descendants, says the Lord, from this time forth and forever.
I the Lord will be their God, and My servant David shall be prince among them. I the Lord have spoken.
I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people,and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is generous toward all who call upon Him.For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
I establish My covenant with you. Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood. Never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
“Behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.No longer will your name be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, thus he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
Thus says the Lord: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night so that there should not be day and night in their season,then also My covenant may be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,
Therefore the promise comes through faith, so that it might be by grace, that the promise would be certain to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Brothers, I am speaking in human terms: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.
But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born from a woman, born under the law,to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill.
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
Then the Lord 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, therefore He chose their descendants after them and personally brought you out of Egypt with His mighty powerto drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
“If his children forsake My law and do not walk according to My decrees,if they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments,then will I punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Remember, O Lord, Your mercies and Your lovingkindness, for they are from of old.Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your lovingkindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will remove ungodliness from Jacob”;“for this is My covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.”
to Him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for His mercy endures forever;and brought Israel out from among them, for His mercy endures forever;with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, for His mercy endures forever;
“Behold, My Servant, whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom My soul is well pleased; I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will render judgment to the Gentiles.
For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold,but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
He has sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; He has put him to grief. If he made himself as an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the good pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.He shall see of the anguish of his soul and be satisfied. By his knowledge My righteous servant shall justify the many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
All the ends of the world will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will worship before You.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life!Furthermore, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death has spread to all men, because all have sinned.For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not counted when there is no law.Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s sin, who was a type of Him who was to come.But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if through the trespass of one man many died, then how much more has the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.The gift is not like the result that came through the one who sinned. For the judgment from one sin led to condemnation, but the free gift, which came after many trespasses, leads to justification.For if by one man’s trespass death reigned through him, then how much more will those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.Therefore just as through the trespass of one man came condemnation for all men, so through the righteous act of One came justification of life for all men.For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One the many will be made righteous.through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and so we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
He remembers His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy and truth.
Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.Do not strive with a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.Do not envy the oppressor and do not choose any of his ways,for the perverse is an abomination to the Lord, but His counsel is with the upright.The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.Surely He scorns the scornful, but He gives grace to the humble.The wise will inherit honor, but fools get shame.So will you find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
Thus says the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you as a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to make them inherit the desolate lands,saying to the prisoners, “Go forth,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.” They shall feed along the paths, and their pastures shall be in all desolate heights;
You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you will be My people, and I will be your God.
For the Lord is good; His mercy endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.
And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not give up.
He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate.
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring;
For His anger endures but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime; weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You have established the earth, and it stands.
For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
I will take delight in Your commandments, which I love.My hands will I lift up to Your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on Your statutes.
I will bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and for Your truth, for You have magnified above all things Your name and Your word.
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, yes, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
I will not break My covenant, nor alter the word that has gone out from My lips.Once and for all have I sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
It is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,
You are My witnesses, says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me.
For their sake He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the greatness of His mercy.
He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,
The Lord will fulfill that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; forsake not the works of Your hands.
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great! You are clothed with honor and majesty,You send the springs into the valleys; they flow between the hills.They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the branches.You water the mountains from Your upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the cultivation of man, that he may bring forth food from the earth,and wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man’s heart.The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted,where the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the fir trees.The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.He made the moon for the seasons; the sun knows its place for setting.covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain.You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the beasts of the forest creep about.The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions.So is this great and wide sea, which is full of innumerable creatures, living things both small and great.There the ships sail along; and there is Leviathan, which You have made to play in it.These all wait upon You, that You may give them their food in due season.You give to them; they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are filled with good.You hide Your face; they are troubled; You take away their breath; they die and return to their dust.He lays the beams of His upper chambers on the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot; He walks upon 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 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 smoke.I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the Lord.May sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!He makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire.You laid the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.