If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the LORD your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling.

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

You are the source of all life, and because of your light we see the light.

He has kept us alive and has not allowed us to fall.

He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive."

Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die;

Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place.

He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power.

It was a Cretan himself, one of their own prophets, who spoke the truth when he said, "Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, and lazy gluttons." For this reason you must rebuke them sharply, so that they may have a healthy faith

the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

In the case of our human fathers, they punished us and we respected them. How much more, then, should we submit to our spiritual Father and live!