“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Yes, I am coming soon.” Revelation 22:12-13 (NIV)

“God the Father chose you long ago and knew you would become His children. And the Holy Spirit has been at work in your hearts, cleansing you with the blood of Jesus Christ” 1 Peter 1:2 (TLB)

“God paid a ransom to save you with the precious lifeblood of Christ . . .He chose Him for this purpose long before the world began, but only recently was He brought into public view, in these last days, as a blessing to you.” 1 Peter 1:18-20 (TLB)

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to them on whom God’s favor rest.” Luke 2:14

“Come to Christ, who is the living Foundation of Rock upon which God builds . . . . And now you have become living building-stones for God’s use . . . . [you are acceptable to the LORD God because of Jesus Christ]. . . .”. 1 Peter 2:4-5 (TLB)

Christ Jesus- The Cornerstone. (read – Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11; Ephesians 2:20; 1 Peter 2:7) 

“Quietly trust yourself to Christ your Lord and if anybody asks why you believe as you do, be ready to tell them, and do it in a gentle and respectful way.” 1 Peter 3:15 (TLB)

“Be careful—watch out for attacks from Satan, your great enemy. He prowls around like a hungry, roaring lion, looking for some victim to tear apart. Stand firm when he attacks.” 1Pe 5:8-9 (TLB)

“For no prophecy recorded in Scripture was ever thought up by the prophet himself. It was the Holy Spirit within these godly men who gave them true messages from God.” 2 Peter 1:20-21 (TLB)

The LORD God said, “I will give you one heart and a new spirit; I will take from you your hearts of stone and give you tender hearts of love for God, so that you can obey my laws and be my people, and I will be your God.” Ezekiel 11:19-20 (TLB)

“a day or a thousand years from now is like tomorrow to the LORD. He isn’t really being slow about His promised return . . . . He is not willing that any should perish, and He is giving more time for sinners to repent.” 2 Peter 3:8-9 (TLB)

“The righteous person will be rewarded for their own goodness and the wicked person for their wickedness. . . . Oh, turn from your sins while there is yet time. Put them behind you and receive a new heart and a new spirit.” Ezekiel 18:20c,30b, 31 (TLB)

“Christ was alive when the world began, yet I myself have seen Him with my own eyes and listened to Him speak. I have touched Him with my own hands. He is God’s message of Life. . . . He was with the Father and then shown to us.” 1 John 1:1-2 (TLB)

“This is the message God has given us to pass to you: God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. So if we say we are His friends, but go on living in spiritual darkness and sin, we are lying. But if we are living in the light of God’s presence, just as Christ does, then we have wonderful fellowship and joy with each other, and the blood of Jesus (God’s) Son cleanses us from every sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves, and refusing to accept the truth. But if we confess our sins to (God), He can be dependent on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. [And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins.] If we claim we have not sinned, we are lying and calling God a liar, for He says we have sinned.” 1Jn 1:5-10 (TLB)

“. . . there is someone to plead for you before the Father. His name is Jesus Christ, the one who is all that is good and who pleases God completely. He is the one who took God’s wrath against our sins upon Himself, and brought us into fellowship with God; and He is the forgiveness for our sins, and not only ours but all the world’s.” 1 John 2:1c-2 (TLB)

“Someone may say, ‘I am a Christian; I am on my way to heaven; I belong to Christ.’ But if he doesn’t do what Christ tells him to, he is a liar. But those who do what Christ tells them to will learn to love God more and more. . . .”  1 John 2:4-5 (TLB)