Happy New Year!

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Nkjv

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
—1 John 3:1

"Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation..."
—Luke 2:29-30

Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
—Jeremiah 2:28

Daniel replied, "No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries."
—Daniel 2:27-28

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
—James 2:26

Jesus would not entrust himself to them [the crowd], for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
—John 2:24-25

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
—Genesis 2:24

"[Jesus] was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross."
—Acts 2:23