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18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
1Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. 3For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols, 6the wrath of God has overwhelmed the sons of unbelief.
2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.
1Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Judge me, Lord, for I have been walking in my innocence, and by hoping in the Lord, I will not be weakened. 2Examine me, Lord, and test me: enkindle my temperament and my heart. 3For your mercy is before my eyes, and I am serene in your truth. 4I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice. 5I have hated the assembly of the malicious; and I will not sit with the impious. 6I will wash my hands among the innocent, and I will surround your altar, O Lord,
4who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.
28And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints.
3You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
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.
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.
12There is a way which seems just to a man, but its conclusion leads to death.
28For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it? 29Otherwise, after he will have laid the foundation and not been able to finish it, everyone who sees it may begin to mock him, 30saying: ‘This man began to build what he was not able to finish.’
3And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience, 4and patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope, 5but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.