For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

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

but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.