O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, “It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.
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