The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David [are] fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon [are] fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ [are] fourteen generations.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ occurred in this way. His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, [but] before they came together, she was found {to be pregnant} by the Holy Spirit.

and [after] calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born.

Now [when] John heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent [word] by his disciples

And Simon Peter answered [and] said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!"

Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was the Christ.

saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ.

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many.

"At that time if anyone should say to you, 'Behold, here [is] the Christ,' or 'Here [he is],' do not believe [him]!

But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I put you under oath by the living God, that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

saying, "Prophesy for us, [you] Christ! Who is it who hit you?"

So [after] they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you--Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?"

Pilate said to them, "What then should I do [with] Jesus, the one who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And he asked them, "But who do you say [that] I am?" Peter answered [and] said to him, "You are the Christ!"

For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in [my] name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward.

And continuing, Jesus said [while] teaching in the temple [courts], "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

"And at that time if anyone should say to you, "Behold, here [is] the Christ,' 'Behold, there [he is],' do not believe [him]!

But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him.

that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit [that he would] not see death before he would see the Lord's Christ.

And [while] the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ,

And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked [them] [and] did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

And he said to them, "But who do you say [that] I am?" And Peter answered [and] said, "The Christ of God."

But he said to them, "In what sense do they say [that] the Christ is David's son?

saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"

Was it not necessary [that] the Christ suffer these [things] and enter into his glory?"

and said to them, "Thus it is written [that] the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

And he confessed--and he did not deny, and confessed--"I am not the Christ!"

And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all [things] to us."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world."

Then the crowd replied to him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains {forever}! And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

but these [things] are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that [by] believing you may have life in his name.

[by] having foreseen [this], he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified!"

And Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But Peter said, "Silver and gold {I do not possess}, but what I have, this I give to you--in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!"

But [the things] which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, [that] his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.

so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ appointed for you--Jesus,

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man stands before you healthy!

The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same [place], against the Lord and against his Christ.'

Every day, both in the temple [courts] and from house [to house], they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news [that] the Christ [was] Jesus.

And Philip came down to the city of Samaria [and] began proclaiming the Christ to them.

But when they believed Philip [as he] was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized.

But Saul was increasing in strength even more, and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus [by] proving that this one is the Christ.

And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and make your bed yourself!" And immediately he got up.

[As for] the message that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ--this one is Lord of all--

So he ordered [that] they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us [when we] believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I [to be] able to hinder God?"

men who have risked their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And she was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed and turning around, said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out {immediately}.

explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and [saying], "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ."

Now when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to be occupied with the message, solemnly testifying to the Jews [that] the Christ was Jesus.

For he was vigorously refuting the Jews in public, demonstrating through the scriptures [that] the Christ was Jesus.

And after some days, [when] Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him concerning faith in Christ Jesus.

that the Christ was to suffer [and] that [as] the first of the resurrection from the dead, he was going to proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles."

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the [things] concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called [to be] an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

who was declared Son of God in power according to {the Holy Spirit} by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord,

among whom you also are [the] called of Jesus Christ.

To all those in Rome who are loved by God, called [to be] saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world.

on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.

that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. For [there] is no distinction,

being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

Therefore, [because we] have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For [while] we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

And not only [this], but also [we are] boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

{But the gift is not like the trespass}, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.

For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.