Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit. Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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