It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.
John 4:23 MSG
Bring to me all the people who are mine, whom I made for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Isaiah 43:7 NCV
Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!—came into being without him.
John 1:4 MSG
Jesus said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”
Mark 12:17 NLT
Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else.
Galatians 6:4 CSB
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
Romans 3:23-24 NLT
