May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
We love because he first loved us.
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,
so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!
that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
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