"Peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you. I do not give it as the world does. Do not be worried and upset; do not be afraid.

You heard me say to you, 'I am leaving, but I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.

Jesus saw her weeping, and he saw how the people with her were weeping also; his heart was touched, and he was deeply moved.

"Now my heart is troubled---and what shall I say? Shall I say, 'Father, do not let this hour come upon me'? But that is why I came---so that I might go through this hour of suffering.

People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

And now that I have told you, your hearts are full of sadness.

That is how it is with you: now you are sad, but I will see you again, and your hearts will be filled with gladness, the kind of gladness that no one can take away from you.

"When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth: the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

My quarrel is not with mortals; I have good reason to be impatient.

When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.

I tremble with fear before him.

Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid--- even though the darkness has made me blind.

Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.

Here in exile my heart is breaking, and so I turn my thoughts to him. He has sent waves of sorrow over my soul; chaos roars at me like a flood, like waterfalls thundering down to the Jordan from Mount Hermon and Mount Mizar.

May the LORD show his constant love during the day, so that I may have a song at night, a prayer to the God of my life.

I am crushed by their insults, as they keep on asking me, "Where is your God?"

Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.

In times of trouble I pray to the Lord; all night long I lift my hands in prayer, but I cannot find comfort.

When I think of God, I sigh; when I meditate, I feel discouraged.

Then I said, "What hurts me most is this--- that God is no longer powerful."

Israel, the LORD who created you says, "Do not be afraid---I will save you. I have called you by name---you are mine.

When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burned; the hard trials that come will not hurt you.

My sorrow cannot be healed; I am sick at heart.

I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are.

The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:

Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.

Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely.

We are often troubled, but not crushed; sometimes in doubt, but never in despair;

At all times we carry in our mortal bodies the death of Jesus, so that his life also may be seen in our bodies.

But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.

I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

so that none of you should turn back because of these persecutions. You yourselves know that such persecutions are part of God's will for us.

For while we were still with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to be persecuted; and as you well know, that is exactly what happened.

not to be so easily confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of the Lord has come. Perhaps it is thought that we said this while prophesying or preaching, or that we wrote it in a letter.

Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees!

Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

"Yes, Lord!" she answered. "I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Jesus said in a loud voice, "Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in him who sent me.

I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that 'I Am Who I Am.'

God is my savior; I will trust him and not be afraid. The LORD gives me power and strength; he is my savior.

As fresh water brings joy to the thirsty, so God's people rejoice when he saves them."

You, LORD, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.

You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death---and we are witnesses to this.

It was the power of his name that gave strength to this lame man. What you see and know was done by faith in his name; it was faith in Jesus that has made him well, as you can all see.

Let us, then, who were the first to hope in Christ, praise God's glory!

And you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the Good News that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had promised.

For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people,

For this reason I fall on my knees before the Father,

I ask God from the wealth of his glory to give you power through his Spirit to be strong in your inner selves,

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.

For those who reject the Son reject also the Father; those who accept the Son have the Father also.

Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father.

So those who believe in the Son of God have this testimony in their own heart; but those who do not believe God, have made a liar of him, because they have not believed what God has said about his Son.

Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.