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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.

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

¹⁰Concerning the rest, brothers, be strengthened in the Lord, by the power of his virtue.

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.

¹³For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.

¹¹Therefore, do not be afraid, but whatever you decide about me, I will accomplish for you. For all the people, who dwell within the gates of my city, know that you are a virtuous woman.

⁶Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. ⁷And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these. ⁹All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

²⁴This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us exult and rejoice in it.

¹If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. ²And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. ³And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. ⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

³The old error has gone away. You will serve peace: peace, for we have hoped in you.

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ, ⁴just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity. ⁵He has predestined us to adoption as sons, through Jesus Christ, in himself, according to the purpose of his will, ⁶for the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has gifted us in his beloved Son.

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.

²⁶For you are all sons of God, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹²Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God. ¹³These are born, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

⁷And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.