An Orderly Account – Love Your Enemies
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live
. . .but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God . . .
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith