Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.