The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
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