How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues, put on love which binds them all together in perfect unity.

A fool vents his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.

A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to correction.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Then Job answered the LORD and said, "I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. You said, 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Now I declare that which I did not understand, were things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law.

Incline my heart to Your testimonies and not to dishonest gain. Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity and revive me in Your ways.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word. You are good and do good; Teach me Your statutes.

Establish my footsteps in Your word, and do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Do all things without grumbling or complaining so that you may be blameless and innocent children of God, without blemish, amid a crooked and twisted generation.

Search me O God and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Obey your leaders and be under their authority. They are watching you because they are responsible for your souls. Obey them so that they will do this work with joy, not sadness. It will not help you to make their work hard.

A person who refuses correction hates himself, but a person who accepts correction gains understanding.

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates on it day and night.

This I call to mind and therefore I have hope. Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness, Lord. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion, therefore I will wait on him.

Then Jesus told his disciples " if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?

Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything you do. Try to please them all the time, not just when they are watching you. Serve them sincerely because of your reverent fear of the Lord.

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ.

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Make allowance for each other's faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Let no corrupt talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

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.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's condemnation.

Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.

Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those whose record the LORD has cleared of sin."

But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago.

But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.

When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.