Proverbs 16:22
16:22 Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it,
but folly leads to the discipline of fools.
Proverbs 17:22
17:22 A cheerful heart brings good healing,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Acts 16:25
16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.
Romans 5:2-3
5:2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice
in the hope of God’s glory.
5:3 Not
only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
Romans 5:11
5:11 Not
only this, but we also rejoice
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
Romans 12:12
12:12 Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.
Romans 12:2
12:2 Do not be conformed
to this present world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve
what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Colossians 1:5
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
Colossians 1:12
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
Colossians 1:10
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 1:6-8
1:6 that has come to you. Just as in the entire world this gospel
is bearing fruit and growing, so it has also been bearing fruit and growing
among you from the first day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth.
1:7 You learned the gospel
from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave
– a
faithful minister of Christ on our
behalf –
1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Colossians 4:13
4:13 For I can testify that he has worked hard
for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.