Trusting Other People

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

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.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — 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,

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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

But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?