Reflection

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” — read the full passage →

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! — read the full passage →

Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. — read the full passage →

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

He told them this parable. — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. — read the full passage →

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.” — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, — read the full passage →

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” — read the full passage →

whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory— — read the full passage →

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. — read the full passage →

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city. — read the full passage →

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. — read the full passage →