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Ask a QuestionThe whole point of what we're urging is simply love - love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into cul-de-sacs of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven't the remotest idea of what they're holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
"Don't pervert justice. Don't show favoritism to either the poor or the great. Judge on the basis of what is right.
And I'm an olive tree, growing green in God's house. I trusted in the generous mercy of God then and now.
God loves all who hate evil, And those who love him he keeps safe, Snatches them from the grip of the wicked.
Praise God, everybody! Applaud God, all people! His love has taken over our lives; God's faithful ways are eternal. Hallelujah!
My dear congregation, I, your pastor, love you in very truth. And I'm not alone - everyone who knows the Truth that has taken up permanent residence in us loves you.
"I see everything you're doing for me. Impressive! The love and the faith, the service and persistence. Yes, very impressive! You get better at it every day.
Blessed are you who enter in God's name - from God's house we bless you! God is God, he has bathed us in light. Festoon the shrine with garlands, hang colored banners above the altar! You're my God, and I thank you. O my God, I lift high your praise. Thank God - he's so good. His love never quits!
Forget that I sowed wild oats; Mark me with your sign of love. Plan only the best for me, God!
Love God, all you saints; God takes care of all who stay close to him, But he pays back in full those arrogant enough to go it alone.
God will tear you limb from limb, sweep you up and throw you out, Pull you up by the roots from the land of life.
Good people will watch and worship. They'll laugh in relief: "Big Man bet on the wrong horse, trusted in big money, made his living from catastrophe."
Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem, by the gazelles, yes, by all the wild deer: Don't excite love, don't stir it up, until the time is ripe - and you're ready.
I beg you, sisters in Jerusalem - if you find my lover, Please tell him I want him, that I'm heartsick with love for him.
The man asked, "What in particular?" Jesus said, "Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself."
"The people I love, I call to account - prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!
Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.
God sticks by all who love him, but it's all over for those who don't.
Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: "This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him."
When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.