and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the Blood of Christ.

resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, you have fashioned praise because of your foes. R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands. When I behold ...

so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.

a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.

and faithful in Christ Jesus: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every ...

who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. praise from the upright is fitting. Give thanks to ...

and making kings run in his service, ...

Let me now sing of my friend, my friend's song concerning his vineyard.

It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman. The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise. Now this ...

wherever it pleases him, he directs it. All the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes, but it is the LORD who proves hearts. To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than ...

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There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a ...