significance

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

¹²How does it seem to you? If someone has one hundred sheep, and if one of them has gone astray, should he not leave behind the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go out to seek what has gone astray?

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father. ³⁰For even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. ³¹Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.

¹⁸The just cried out, and the Lord heard them, and he freed them from all their tribulations. ¹⁹The Lord is near to those who are troubled in heart, and he will save the humble in spirit. ²⁰Many are the afflictions of the just, but from them all the Lord will free them. ²¹The Lord preserves all of their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

¹²Here is the patient endurance of the Saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

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

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.

¹³In place of the shrub, the pine tree will arise, and in place of the nettle, the myrtle tree will grow. And the Lord will be named with an eternal sign, which will not be taken away.

¹⁷For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize: not through the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ become empty.

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.

¹Behold, the days of the Lord will arrive, and your spoils will be divided in your midst. ²And I will gather all the Gentiles in battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, and the houses will be ravaged, and the women will be violated. And the central part of the city will go forth into captivity, and the remainder of the people will not be taken away from the city. ³Then the Lord will go forth, and he will fight against those Gentiles, just as when he fought in the day of conflict. ⁴And his feet will stand firm, in that day, upon the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem towards the East. And the mount of Olives will be divided down its center part, towards the East and towards the West, with a very great rupture, and the center of the mountain will be separated towards the North, and its center towards the Meridian. ⁵And you will flee to the valley of those mountains, because the valley of the mountains will be joined all the way to the next. And you will flee, just as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the Lord my God will arrive, and all the saints with him. ⁶And this shall be in that day: there will not be light, only cold and frost.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

¹³In him, you also, after you heard and believed the Word of truth, which is the Gospel of your salvation, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the Promise. ¹⁴He is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the acquisition of redemption, to the praise of his glory.

²⁶For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining for sins,

²⁵And rejoicing in their celebration, having now taken food, they instructed that Samson be called, and that he be mocked before them. And having been brought from prison, he was mocked before them. And they caused him to stand between two pillars. ²⁶And he said to the boy who was guiding his steps, “Permit me to touch the pillars, which support the entire house, and to lean against them, so that I may rest a little.” ²⁷Now the house was full of men and women. And all the leaders of the Philistines were there, as well as about three thousand persons, of both sexes, on the roof and in the upper level of the house, who were watching Samson being mocked. ²⁸Then, calling upon the Lord, he said, “O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, so that I may avenge myself against my enemies, and so that I may receive one vengeance for the deprivation of my two eyes.” ²⁹And taking hold of both the pillars, on which the house rested, and holding one with his right hand and the other with his left, ³⁰he said, “May my life die with the Philistines.” And when he had shaken the pillars strongly, the house fell upon all the leaders, and the rest of the multitude who were there. And he killed many more in his death than he had killed before in his life.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, ²³meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things. ²⁴For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires. ²⁵If we live by the Spirit, we should also walk by the Spirit. ²⁶Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

¹Now when David was living in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan: “Behold, I live in a house of cedar. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent skins.” ²And Nathan said to David: “Do all that is in your heart. For God is with you.” ³And yet, that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying: ⁴“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place. ⁵For I have not stayed in a house from the time when I led out Israel, even to this day. Instead, I have been continually changing places, in a tabernacle and tent, ⁶dwelling with all of Israel. When did I ever speak to any one at all, among the judges of Israel whom I placed in charge so that they might pasture my people, saying: ‘Why have you not built a house of cedar for me?’

¹And when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, ²the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose. ³And God said: “My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh. And so his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown. ⁵Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times, ⁶repented that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with a sorrow of heart,

²complete my joy by having the same understanding, holding to the same charity, being of one mind, with the same sentiment. ³Let nothing be done by contention, nor in vain glory. Instead, in humility, let each of you esteem others to be better than himself. ⁴Let each of you not consider anything to be your own, but rather to belong to others. ⁵For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus:

¹⁰Now the same was true of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were associates of Simon. And Jesus said to Simon: “Do not be afraid. From now on, you will be catching men.”

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.

⁷And also Sodom and Gomorrah, and the adjoining cities, in similar ways, having given themselves over to fornication and to the pursuing of other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.