“This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”

1 John 3:11 New International Version

“Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God.  Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.”

Psalm 4:1 New International Version

“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.  Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.”

Proverbs 31:30-31 New International Version

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.”

Romans 3:20 New International Version

“Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.”

1 John 3:21-22 New International Version

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”

Hebrews 10:23 New International Version

“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

Proverbs 2:1-5 New International Version

“For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.”

Romans 6:14 New International Version

“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”

Genesis 50:20 New International Version

“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”

Isaiah 40:29 New International Version