And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.

Sing praises to our God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.

[A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all [that is] within me, [bless] His holy name.

With my whole heart have I diligently sought You; cast me not away from Your commandments.

Instruct me, and I will search out Your law, and will keep it with my whole heart.

I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord; I will search out Your statutes.

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.

And for all these things faithless Judah turned not to Me with all her heart, but falsely.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though you fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh [months] (yea, behold, these seventy years) have you at all fasted to Me?

Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?

"Moreover, when you fast, do not become gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men [to be] fasting. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God.

For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God wholeheartedly,

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

Therefore subject yourselves to every human institution on account of the Lord: whether to the king as [to one] having authority,

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish men--