Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt…
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life…
nd you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind…
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way…
You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him…