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

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.

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.

He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

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.

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

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 believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

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

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?

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.