“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.

Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.

Psalms 12:1

“I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,