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¹⁵Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.

⁸Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour. ⁹Resist him by being strong in faith, being aware that the same passions afflict those who are your brothers in the world.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.

⁷Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

¹However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Why has God instructed you, that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?”

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

²³All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.

²⁰But, in a large house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also those of wood and of clay; and certainly some are held in honor, but others in dishonor.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. ²He was with God in the beginning. ³All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him. ⁴Life was in Him, and Life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ⁶There was a man sent by God, whose name was John.

²⁵For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.

¹⁰⁵Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.

¹²For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

¹“So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth. ²And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts. ³Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field. ⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep. ⁵Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses. ⁶Blessed shall you be entering and departing.

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

⁶Therefore, just as you have received the Lord Jesus Christ, walk in him.

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God, ²which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures, ³about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh, ⁴the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, ⁶from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:

¹Then, after the death of Ahab, Moab transgressed against Israel. ²And Ahaziah fell down through the lattices of his upper room, which he had in Samaria, and he was injured. And he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, as to whether I may be able to survive this infirmity of mine.” ³And an Angel of the Lord spoke to Elijah, the Tishbite, saying: “Rise up, and ascend to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria. And you shall say to them: ‘Is there not a God in Israel, so that you would go to consult Beelzebub, the god of Ekron? ⁴For this reason, thus says the Lord: From the bed to which you have ascended, you shall not descend. Instead, dying you shall die.’ ” And Elijah went away. ⁵And the messengers returned to Ahaziah. And he said to them, “Why have you returned?” ⁶But they responded to him: “A man met us, and he said to us: ‘Go, and return to the king who sent you. And you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that you are sending to consult Beelzebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, from the bed to which you have ascended, you shall not descend. Instead, dying you shall die.’ ”

⁹Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,

⁷The Lord guards you from all evil. May the Lord guard your soul. ⁸May the Lord guard your entrance and your exit, from this time forward and even forever.

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.

²¹And she shall give birth to a son. And you shall call his name JESUS. For he shall accomplish the salvation of his people from their sins.”

²⁷My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.

¹Then, after the tumult ceased, Paul, calling the disciples to himself and exhorting them, said farewell. And he set out, so that he might go into Macedonia.

¹⁵I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.”

³And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

³²And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

⁹For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth,

¹⁶And it is clearly great, this mystery of piety, which was manifested in the flesh, which was justified in the Spirit, which has appeared to Angels, which has been preached to the Gentiles, which is believed in the world, which has been taken up in glory.