No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord.

I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?

Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.

Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?

How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.

You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.

My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”