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¹⁵so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 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. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him. ¹⁸Whoever believes in him is not judged. But whoever does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

¹⁵Therefore, through him, let us offer the sacrifice of continual praise to God, which is the fruit of lips confessing his name. ¹⁶But do not be willing to forget good works and fellowship. For God is deserving of such sacrifices.

¹¹Smoke passes out of his nostrils, like a pot that is heated and boiling.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation. ⁴He consoles us in all our tribulation, so that we too may be able to console those who are in any kind of distress, through the exhortation by which we also are being exhorted by God. ⁵For just as the Passion of Christ abounds in us, so also, through Christ, does our consolation abound. ⁶So, if we are in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation, or if we are in consolation, it is for your consolation, or if we are exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which results in the patient endurance of the same passion which we also endure. ⁷So may our hope for you be made firm, knowing that, just as you are participants in the suffering, so also shall you be participants in the consolation.

⁷For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it? ⁸So, now you have been filled, and now you have been made wealthy, as if to reign without us? But I wish that you would reign, so that we, too, might reign with you! ⁹For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men. ¹⁰So we are fools because of Christ, but you are discerning in Christ? We are weak, but you are strong? You are noble, but we are ignoble? ¹¹Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady. ¹²And we labor, working with our own hands. We are slandered, and so we bless. We suffer and endure persecution.

¹⁶And so, do not choose to go astray, my most beloved brothers. ¹⁷Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.

⁶Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden. ⁷Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh. ⁸Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.

³⁴For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? ³⁵Or who first gave to him, so that repayment would be owed? ³⁶For from him, and through him, and in him are all things. To him is glory, for all eternity. Amen.

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. ²⁹What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.

¹⁷Otherwise, you might say in your heart: ‘My own strength, and the power of my own hand, have brought forth all these things for me.’ ¹⁸But remember the Lord your God, that he himself has provided you with strength, so that he may fulfill his covenant, about which he swore to your fathers, just as the present day reveals. ¹⁹But if you forget the Lord your God, so that you follow foreign gods, and serve and adore them: behold, I now foretell to you that you shall utterly perish.

³¹Yet truly, seek first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you. ³²Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has pleased your Father to give you the kingdom. ³³Sell what you possess, and give alms. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure that will not fall short, in heaven, where no thief approaches, and no moth corrupts. ³⁴For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.