To him belongs the power forever. Amen.

by casting all your cares on him because he cares for you.

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

For it says in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”