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¹⁰Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.

³⁵Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword? ³⁶For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.” ³⁷But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us. ³⁸For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, ³⁹nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹³Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he even-tempered? Let him sing psalms.

¹⁸The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”

⁵Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.” ⁶So then, we may confidently say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me.”

²⁷My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me.

²Our God is our refuge and strength, a helper in the tribulations that have greatly overwhelmed us.

³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding is for all who do it. His praise remains from age to age.

¹²But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and into custody, dragging you before kings and governors, because of my name. ¹³And this will be an opportunity for you to give testimony. ¹⁴Therefore, set this in your hearts: that you should not consider in advance how you might respond. ¹⁵For I will give to you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries will not be able to resist or contradict.

⁵Every word of God is fire-tested. He is a bronze shield to those who hope in him. ⁶Do not add anything to his words, lest you be reproved and be discovered to be a liar.

⁷Where will I go from your Spirit? And where will I flee from your face? ⁸If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near. ⁹If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea, ¹⁰even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me.

⁶Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

¹⁰If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up.

²⁵May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

²⁰And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.