God has declared one principle; two principles I have heard: God is strong,

“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

O children of Israel, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

He followed God during the lifetime of Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed the Lord, God caused him to succeed.

God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

Such godly people are rewarded by the Lord, and vindicated by the God who delivers them.

God delivers me and exalts me; God is my strong protector and my shelter.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”

That night God told Nathan the prophet,

For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

“You shall have no other gods before me.