Now to him who is able to keep you from slipping and to make you stand unblemished and exultant before his glory ??25 to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

The mercy

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

to Timotheus his lawful son in the faith: grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Unto

so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

He who believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony within himself; he who will not believe God, has made God a liar by refusing to believe the testimony which God has borne to his Son.

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Now this is what he has promised you, eternal life.