God of Hope

Jesus: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

Let love be your highest goal! (1 Corinthians 4:1) . . . our goal is to please him (2 Corinthians 5:9). Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God (Galatians 1:10).

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you (1 John 2:15).

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 (1 Corinthians 13:11).

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold (Proverbs 22:1).

Wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it (Luke 7: 35).

Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves (Romans 12:3). Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too (Philippians 2:3-4).

Upright citizens are good for a city and make it prosper (Proverbs 11:11).

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls (Proverbs 25:28).

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance (Romans 5:3).

Pay to all what is due them . . .  respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor (Romans 13:7).

Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise (Hebrews 10:23).