DGroup 2023

“Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might… he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.