Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.

The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The Lord will rescue his servants; no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.

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

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.”

Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

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

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.

For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.

Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

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.

The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.

See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.

The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.

You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.

For we live by faith, not by sight.

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.