Psalms 43:5

Let all that you do be done in love.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.