being a good helper

¹⁴You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. ¹⁵And they do not light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that it may shine to all who are in the house. ¹⁶So then, let your light shine in the sight of men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

¹⁸Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.

¹¹Behold, I am approaching quickly. Hold on to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

⁹But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.

²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,

²²And the justice of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction. ²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God. ²⁴We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.

⁷Cast all your cares upon him, for he takes care of you.

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.

⁷And so now he is not a servant, but a son. But if he is a son, then he is also an heir, through God.