SELECTION 22
THE JOY OF SALVATION
BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,
That we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
Having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself,
According to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he fully bestowed on us in the Beloved:
In whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses!
God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead through our trespasses,
Made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
And raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:
For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Not of works, that no man should glory. For we are his workmanship,
Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
Unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.
SELECTION 23
THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED
FRET not thyself because of evil-doers,
Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.
