(27) To hold a life of love.
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Then God said, «Let the earth bring forth all kinds of living creatures: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals of all kinds.» And so it happened: God made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. God saw how good it was. Then God said: «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. (Gen 1:24-26)
the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:7)
The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. The LORD God gave man this order: «You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.» (Gen 2:15-17)
Since the life of every living body is its blood. (Lev 17:14)
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ (Acts 17:26-28)
He said to him, «You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. (Matt 22:37)
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil. (2 Cor 5:10)
Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. (1 Cor 2:14)
May the God of peace himself make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will also accomplish it. (1 Thess 5:23-24)