And they sang a new song, saying,                      “Worthy are you to take the scroll        and to open its seals,                    for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God        from every tribe and language and people and nation,              10       and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,        and they…

And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain…

        For you shall go out in joy        and be led forth in peace;                    the mountains and the hills before you        shall break forth into singing,        and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.              13       Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;        instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;                    and…

“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Safe deposit boxes are not as widely used as they once were. Perhaps you have one. What treasure is in it?…

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. Unsinkable. That is the loud boast of folly that the architect and builders…

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness “I wish I…