
Sacredness: Our Life’s Work
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”—1 Peter 1:15–16 (NIV)

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”—1 Peter 1:15–16 (NIV)

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.—Psalm 73:28 (ESV)

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.—Matthew 5:37 (ESV)

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.—Proverbs 6:6–8 (NIV)

Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”—1 Samuel 1:22 (NIV)

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.—Isaiah 43:19 (NIV)

I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.—Psalm 3:5 (NIV)

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.—Acts 1:8 (NIV)

I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.—Psalm 119:15 (NIV)

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised.—Psalm 113:3 (NIV)

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thought and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?—Psalm 13:1–2 (NIV)

From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.—John 1:16 (ESV)