declarations

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.

²¹For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.

²⁸You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.

¹⁶All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

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.

¹⁹Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

¹⁹And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

⁸And God is able to make every grace abound in you, so that, always having what you need in all things, you may abound unto every good work,

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

¹⁷Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

¹⁷in whom he believed, who revives the dead and who calls those things that do not exist into existence. For it is written: “I have established you as the father of many nations.”