22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living word of God, and abiding forever.

24 For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

25 but the Word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the Word preached as gospel to you.

5 I wait [for] the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I hope.

6 My soul [waits] for the LORD more than morning-watchers who are watching for the morning.

9 The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any [of us] should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1 Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

3 The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.

4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said to the wise, Give us [some] of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.

9 But the wise answered, saying, [No], lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And they who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

11 Afterwards the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

12 But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

13 Therefore watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour in which the Son of man comes.

1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and He bowed down to me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, [and] set my feet on a rock, and gave sureness to my steps.

3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God; many shall see [it] and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

4 Blessed [is] the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not turn to the proud, nor to those who turn aside [to] a lie.

5 O LORD my God, many things You have done, Your wonderful works and Your thoughts [which] [are] toward us; they cannot be set in order to You; I will declare and speak, for they are more than can be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened; burnt offering and sin offering You have not asked.

7 Then I said, Lo, I come, in the volume of the Book [it is] written of Me;

8 I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your law [is] within My heart.

9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not kept back My lips, O LORD, You know.

10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not hidden Your loving-kindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth always watch over me.

12 For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and humbled together, those who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame, those who wish me evil.

20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He [is] our help and our shield.

21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we trust in His holy name.

22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be on us, according as we hope in You.

5 My soul, be silent only to God; for my hope [is] from Him.

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

18 And so the LORD waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD [is] a God of judgment; blessed [are] all those who wait for Him.

31 but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up [with] wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

1 A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

3 Though an army should camp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I am trusting.

4 One [thing] I have desired from the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to pray in His temple.

5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter, in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.

6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies, my encirclers; and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle. I will sing; yea, I will sing praises to the LORD.

7 Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice; and have mercy on me, and answer me.

8 My heart says to You, Seek my face; Your face, O LORD, I will seek;

9 Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.

12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

13 [I would have] fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

14 Hope in the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in the LORD.

3 And not only [this], but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,

4 and patience [works out] experience, and experience [works out] hope.

7 Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives [the] early and the latter rain.

8 You also be patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of your Lord draws near.

11 Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.

13 [I would have] fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

14 Hope in the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in the LORD.

14 Hope in the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in the LORD.

11 being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,

34 Wait on the LORD, and keep His way, and He shall lift you up to inherit the earth; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see [it].