VIRTUE

“Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, “My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,””

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

“And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.””

“And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!””

““I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.””

““ Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord , “And not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord ; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.””

“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.”

“We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.””

“Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.”

“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”

“The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.”

“God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.”

“Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord ? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.”

“Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.”

“Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful.”

“He is ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed.”

“For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.””

“The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.”

“The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.”

“who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.”

“But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.”

“Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,”

“Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord . And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord , the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.””

“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.”

“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is , there is liberty.”

“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.””

“Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.”

“So the Philistine said to David, “ Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord ’s, and He will give you into our hands.””

“Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust. O my soul, you have said to the Lord , “You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You.” As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.””

“O Lord , You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot.”

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

“”But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.”'”

“by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

“”Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.””