Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11 (TLB)

“For I know the plans I have for you . . . They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Jeremiah 29:5-7 

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.  Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper. . . .

Jeremiah 29:10 (NLT)

. . . “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.”

Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT)

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD, “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29: 12,13

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:34 (NLT)

“Sir, they said, “Give us that bread every day.”

John 6:35

“Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

John 6:41 (NLT)

“Then the people began to murmur in disagreement because he (Jesus) had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

John 6:48-51 (NLT)

“Yes, I am the bread of life! Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died. Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread, however, will never die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”

John 6:53, 55-56 (NLT)

So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.. . . For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

John 6:60 (NLT)

Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”

John 6:66 (NLT)

At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him.”

John 6:67 (NLT)

“Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?”

John 6:68-69 (NKJV)

But Simon Peter answered Him , “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. And we have come to believe and know You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”