For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,...
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds ...
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,...
