that He may turn our hearts toward Him to walk in all His ways, and to keep all His commandments and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel our fathers, preserve these things in the thoughts of the heart of Your people forever, and direct their hearts toward You.

O that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes.

Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness.

In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths.

I know, O Lord, that man's way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

And the Lord shall purge your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.

And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him?

We love Him because He first loved us.

For the end, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

for Your name's sake have I waited for You, O Lord, my soul has waited for Your word.

My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night.

is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation from the Lord.

and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks, immediately they may open to him.

Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them recline [to eat], and he will come and serve them.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.

For our citizenship exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who will transform our lowly body, that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

so also Christ having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation, to those eagerly waiting for Him.

looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being set of fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those that dwell upon the earth.

I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no man may take your crown.

If anyone has captivity, he goes away; if anyone [is] with [the] sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured [the] cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and discouraged in your souls.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, you also arm yourselves [with] the same mind, because he who suffered in [the] flesh has ceased from sin,