Verse of the Day

In your hearts, set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.

This is why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

[Joshua said,] "For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God."

Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. ... Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...

Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.

Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

[Jesus taught his disciples:] "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.

[The Lord said to Israel,] "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me."

Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you.

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...

Fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing.

Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.