I will praise you with all my heart, O Lord my God; I will proclaim your greatness forever.

How great is your constant love for me! You have saved me from the grave itself.

The LORD saved me from death; he stopped my tears and kept me from defeat.

From such terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that he will save us again,

and to wait for his Son to come from heaven---his Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who rescues us from God's anger that is coming.

and in this way set free those who were slaves all their lives because of their fear of death.

remember this: whoever turns a sinner back from the wrong way will save that sinner's soul from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins.

I have always walked in your way and have never strayed from it.

I said, "I am falling"; but your constant love, O LORD, held me up.

He helps those who are in trouble; he lifts those who have fallen.

"He protects the lives of his faithful people, but the wicked disappear in darkness; a man does not triumph by his own strength.

And so I walk in the presence of the LORD in the world of the living.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.

Now, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light which the LORD gives us!

"Remember, LORD, that I have served you faithfully and loyally, and that I have always tried to do what you wanted me to." And he began to cry bitterly.

each one saves a person's life, and gives him the joy of living.

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. "I am the light of the world," he said. "Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness."

Jesus answered, "The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

Believe in the light, then, while you have it, so that you will be the people of the light." After Jesus said this, he went off and hid himself from them.

You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,

Try to learn what pleases the Lord.

(It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.)

for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light. That is why it is said, "Wake up, sleeper, and rise from death, and Christ will shine on you."

The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God shines on it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it.