NT- Selected Readings

16 – Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4

17 – Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal: for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21

18 – Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise person who built his house on the rock; and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. Now everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them, will be like a foolish person who built his house on the sand; and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. Matthew 7:24-27

19 – Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh . . . Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Luke 6:21,25

20 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. One who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.” John 11:25,26

21 – Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself: that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:1-3

22 – Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. John 16:20,21

23 – Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. John 16:22

24 – Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” Revelation 14:13

25 – And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband,

And I heard a loud voice from heaven, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with people, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.”

And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to one who thirsts.”

He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My child. Revelation 21:1-7