After telling everyone good-bye,

he went up into the hills by himself to pray.

Mark 6:46

Let everything you say be good and helpful,

so that your words will be an encouragement

to those who hear them.

Ephesians 4:29

The Son radiates God’s own glory

and expresses the very character of God,

and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his command.

When he had cleansed us from our sins,

he sat down in the place of honor

at the right hand of the majestic God in heaven.

Hebrews 1:3

…I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,

the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.

Ephesians 3:14

Then Christ will make his home in your hearts

as you trust in him.

Your roots will grow down into God’s love

and keep you strong. 

And may you have the power to understand,

as all God’s people should,

how wide, how long, how high,

and how deep his love is.

Ephesians 3:17-18

…And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.

Ephesians 2:20

Because of Christ and our faith in him,

we can now come boldly and confidently 

into God’s presence.

Ephesians 3:12

For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.  (Romans 3:23)

As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. (Romans 3:10)

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8)

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. (Romans 10:9)

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. (Romans 5:11)

…when you believed in Christ,

he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit,

whom he promised long ago.

The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us

the inheritance he promised

and that he has purchased us to be his own people.

He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

Ephesians 1:13-14

(Schonbrunn Palace–Marie Antoinette’s childhood summer home–Vienna, Austria)