HEALED
For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
“I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts.”
“If you put your detestable idols out of My sight and no longer go astray, and in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’ then the nations will be blessed by Him and in Him they will glory.
For it is God’s will that by doing good you shouls silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though thay accuse you of doing wrong, thay may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.
As you come to Him, the living Stone- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him- you also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.