I reflect at night on who you are,
O Lord…
With all my heart I want your blessings.
I rise at midnight to thank you…
You have done many good things for me,
Lord,
just as you promised.
I believe in your commands;
now teach me good judgment and knowledge.
You made me;
you created me.
Now give me the sense to follow your commands.
Psalm 119:55, 58, 62, 65-66, 73
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable…
1 Corinthians 13:4-5
A spiritual gift is given to each of us
so we can help each other.
…the ability to give wise advice
…a message of special knowledge
…great faith
…the gift of healing
…the power to perform miracles
…the ability to prophesy
…the ability to discern whether a message
is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit.
…the ability to speak in unknown languages
…the ability to interpret what is being said.
It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts.
He alone decides which gift each person should have.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
If you think you are standing strong,
be careful not to fall.
The temptations in your life are no different
from what others experience.
And God is faithful.
He will not allow the temptation to be more
than you can stand.
When you are tempted,
he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Corinthians 10:10
There is one God,
the Father,
by whom all things were created,
and for whom we live.
And there is one Lord,
Jesus Christ,
through whom all things were created,
and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 8:6
Anyone who claims to know all the answers
doesn’t really know very much.
But the person who loves God
is the one whom God recognizes.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3
It’s not important who does the planting,
or who does the watering.
What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
The one who plants and the one who waters
work together with the same purpose.
And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
1 Corinthians 3:7-8
…his Spirit searches out everything
and shows us God’s deep secrets.
No one can know a person’s thoughts
except that person’s own spirit,
and no one can know God’s thoughts
except God’s own Spirit.
And we have received God’s Spirit
(not the world’s spirit),
so we can know the wonderful things
God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians 2:10-12
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared
for those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9
God chose things despised by the world,
things counted as nothing at all,
and used them to bring to nothing
what the world considers important.
As a result,
no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
God has united you with Christ Jesus.
For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself.
Christ made us right with God;
he made us pure and holy,
and he freed us from sin.
Therefore,
as the Scriptures say,
“If you want to boast,
boast only about the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:28-31
