Isaiah 40:1-2

The Lord Returns to Jerusalem

40:1 “Comfort, comfort my people,”

says your God.

40:2 “Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her

that her time of warfare is over,

that her punishment is completed.

For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins.”

Colossians 1:4

1:4 since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

Ephesians 6:22

6:22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.

Ephesians 6:1

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Ephesians 3:2

3:2 if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,

Ephesians 4:18

4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:11

5:11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Ephesians 5:14

5:14 For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says:

“Awake, O sleeper!

Rise from the dead,

and Christ will shine on you!”

Ephesians 5:2

5:2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Ephesians 2:16

2:16 and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.