Affirmation

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.