But their insults cannot hurt me because the Sovereign LORD gives me help. I brace myself to endure them. I know that I will not be disgraced,

Your people will all do what is right, And will possess the land forever. I planted them, I made them, To reveal my greatness to all.

To give to those who mourn in Zion Joy and gladness instead of grief, A song of praise instead of sorrow. They will be like trees That the LORD himself has planted. They will all do what is right, And God will be praised for what he has done.

Remember that the LORD has chosen the righteous for his own, and he hears me when I call to him.

Write down for the coming generation what the LORD has done, so that people not yet born will praise him.

Everything the LORD has made has its destiny; and the destiny of the wicked is destruction.

(SEE 1:73)

so that we might be holy and righteous before him all the days of our life.

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God's glory.

God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children---this was his pleasure and purpose.

For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the grace of God,

God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

to God be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever! Amen.

For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen things, including spiritual powers, lords, rulers, and authorities. God created the whole universe through him and for him.

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.