I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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