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Isaiah 40:28-31<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The\u00a0Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the\u00a0Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>Matthew 5:9, 16, 44; or Matthew 5-7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God\u2026.<\/p>\n

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven\u2026.. \u201cBut I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew 11:28-30<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.\u00a0Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Matthew 22:34-40<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: \u201cTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?\u201d Jesus replied: \u201c\u2009\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romans 8:26, 28, 31-39<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans\u2026. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all\u2014how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died\u2014more than that, who was raised to life\u2014is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: \u201cFor your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.\u201d No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n

\u00a01 Corinthians 13:1-7<\/strong><\/p>\n

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 3:14-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord\u2019s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge\u2014that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ephesians 4:2-3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.\u00a0Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Philippians 2:1-11<\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death\u2014even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Colossians 3:12-17 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Therefore, as God\u2019s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.\u00a0Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.\u00a0Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.\u00a0And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.<\/p>\n

\u00a01 John 4:16-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.\u00a0Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in this world.\u00a0There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.\u00a0We love\u00a0because he first loved us.\u00a0Those who say, \u2018I love God\u2019, and hate their brothers or sisters,\u00a0are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister\u00a0whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.\u00a0The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters\u00a0also.<\/p>\n

Revelation 22:1-6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then the angel\u00a0showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb\u00a0through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life\u00a0with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.\u00a0Nothing accursed will be found there anymore. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants\u00a0will worship him;\u00a0they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.\u00a0And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever. \u00a0And he said to me, \u2018These words are trustworthy and true, for the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants\u00a0what must soon take place.\u2019<\/p>\n

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