Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. We have some pretty great examples around us of “devotion” that brings forth life. Take a baby: a man and a woman come together and the wife becomes pregnant. Sometimes, this first step can take lots of effort and be full of trials. […]
We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is […]
For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. --Parallel verses:Revelation 21:1-5aThen I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven […]
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. --Parallel verses:Philippians 3:1-4aFurther, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It […]
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings […]
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. --Parallel verses:Romans 7:18-19, 21-25 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my […]
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. --Parallel verses:Ephesians 2:1-5As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways […]
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” For from him and through him and […]
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come […]
