“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.