So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10)

And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 16:17)

Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. But even the hairs on your head are all counted. (Luke 12:6-7)

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. (Genesis 2:1)

“But all things should be done decently and in order.”

(1 Corinthians 14:40)

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! (Psa. 27:14)

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2)

“As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” (Genesis 15:15)

“Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.” (Genesis 12:10)

“So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.” (Genesis 12:4)

“Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.’” (Genesis 12:1)

“These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.” (Genesis 11:10-11)

“Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’” (Genesis 11:4)

“Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.” (Genesis 7:1)

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7)

But you, O Bethlehem, Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. (Micah 5:2)

Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your commands give me delight. (Psalm 119:143)

Jesus said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while. (Mark 6:31)

Know this, my beloved brothers and sister; let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. (James 1:19)