Following God

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. …