For I know the plans I have for you"–this is the LORD's declaration–"plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight.
Youths may become faint and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who trust in the LORD will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.
So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
Carry one another's burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
'The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.' And all the people will say, 'Amen!'
Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.


