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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate u...

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.

For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.

You who fear him, trust in the Lord — he is their help and shield.