I love those that love me, and they that seek me shall find me.

Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Hades, where you are going.

[ 6:10] I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, if the pomegranates blossomed.

A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard.

If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.

Then after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return now and visit our brothers in each city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are doing."

Scrutinize yourselves as to whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you are reprobates?

Because of this, when I could no longer endure [it], I sent to learn about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

But now when Timothy came to us from you, and brought good news to us of your faith and your love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, as we also [long to see] you--

looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled;

And again: "I will put My trust in Him." And again: "Behold I and the children to whom God has given Me."

and that He might set free these, as many as by fear of death through all of their lives, were subject to bondage.

Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall He take away the little clusters with pruning hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

How beautiful are you, and how sweet are you, my love!

Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.

And I will make Myself known to you from there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy seat between the two cherubim, which are upon the Ark of Testimony, even in all things which I shall charge you concerning the children of Israel.

And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth; I will give thanks to You on the harp, O God, my God.

For Your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise You.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and [my] joyful lips shall praise Your name.

For You have been my helper, and in the shelter of Your wings will I rejoice.

For whom have I in heaven [but You]? And what have I desired upon the earth besides You?

For there are set thrones for judgment, [even] thrones for the house of David.

For upon My holy mountain, on the high mountain, says the Lord, [even] the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me forever. And there will I accept [you], and there will I have respect to your firstfruits, and the firstfruits of your offerings, in all your holy things.

I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savor, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries in which you have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.

And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we received the reconciliation.

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.