For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.

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 the Lord says to Israel: “Seek me and live.”

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.

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.

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

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

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

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.

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.

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

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

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

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.”

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

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.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

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

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

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

For we live by faith, not by sight.

We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

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

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.