In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love […]
“Trust the Lord and sincerely worship him; think of all the tremendous things he has done for you. 1 Samuel 12:24, TLB
Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. Proverbs 16:32, NLT
How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow? For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog—now you see it; soon it is gone. James 4:14, TLB
For salvation comes from God. What joys he gives to all his people. Psalm 3:8, TLB
You alone can lift my head, now bowed in shame. Psalm 3:3, TLB