We constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.

Your statutes stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days, O LORD.

Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.