Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or f
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed;
Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake o
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will b
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. S
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.