Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide…

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Choose this day whom you will serve...But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.