No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins.

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Even though I walk through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil, for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

    they comfort me.

No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.