What can I say about people of this time? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace who call out to each other, “We played music for you, but you did not dance; we sang a sad song, but you did not cry.” John came and did not eat or drink like other people. So people say, “He has a demon.”

The son of man came eating and drinking, and people say, “Look at him! He eats too much and drinks too much wine, and he is a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” But wisdom is proved to be right by what it does.

Matthew 11:16-19

“Lo, I am with you always (all the days),

even unto the end of the world.”

Matthew 28:20

“Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit

of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

2 Timothy 1:6-7

At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”

which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Mark 15:34

“Don’t worry about anything, but in all your prayers, ask God for what you need, always asking him

with a thankful heart. And God’s peace which is far beyond human understanding will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 4:6-7

“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient

toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”

2 Peter 3:9

When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,

“It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.”

Exodus 16:14-16

“For he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good,

and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.”

Matthew 5:45b

“Now fear the Lord and serve Him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourself this day

whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:14-15

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.”

John 3:16-17

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.”

Matthew 6:10

After these things God tested Abraham.

He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:1

“Train up a child in the way he should go,

even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6

“But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others

do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

And the King will answer and say to them, “Truly I say to you, to the extent

that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.”

Matthew 25:40

“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in

green pastures, he leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul.”

Psalm 23:1-3

Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him.

“Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Mark 14:35

“Call unto me and I will tell you things great

beyond reach of your knowledge.”

Jeremiah 33:3

“Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according

to the pattern we gave you. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.”

Philippians 3:17-18

If your brother does something wrong, rebuke him and, if he is sorry, forgive him.

And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says, “I am sorry,” you must forgive him.

Luke 17:3-4

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;

I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Ezekiel 36:26

“The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions

never fail. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.”

Lamentations 3:22-23

And his disciples asked him “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,

that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.”

John 9:2-3

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed,

but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.”

1 Peter 1:22-25

“That I might

finish my course with joy.”

Acts 20:24

“Continue to love each other like brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this,

some people have entertained angels without knowing it.”

Hebrews 13:1-2

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Another day, another year, another life, another fear.

Romans 8:35-37

“Agree with God, and be at peace;

in this way good will come to you.”

Job 22:21

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared

with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”

Romans 8:18

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him.

“Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am...”

Genesis 22:1-14