⁸ “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.”

³³ Seek the Kingdom of God^[a] above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

⁶ Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.

²⁵ And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us.

²¹ “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? ²² Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. ²³ These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, pious self-denial, and severe bodily discipline. But they provide no help in conquering a person’s evil desires.

³⁰ will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.

Psalm 128

A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.