Ano novo
O Ano Novo é oportunidade de renovação e consagração. A Bíblia convida a esquecer o que ficou para trás e avançar em fé, confiança e esperança em Deus.
Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Not as though I had already attained it, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may lay hold of that for which I have also been laid hold of by the Christ, Jesus.
Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.
Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, from the dead,
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
Be silent before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not be angry with him who prospers in his way, with the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
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O taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that shall trust in him.
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but those that wait for the Lord shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.
And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my commandments, and ye shall keep my rights, and do them.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, into which likewise ye are called into one body, and be ye thankful.
He has made every thing beautiful in his time: even the world he has given over to their will, in such a way that no man can attain to this work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
For they verily for a few days chastened us as it seemed good unto them, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
It is true that no chastening at present seems to be cause for joy, but rather for grief; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised by it.
Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;
and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.
But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
Therefore sin is still in the one that knows to do good and does not do it.