“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set free those who are oppressed,

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.

I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.

And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

“It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?

And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed me
To bring good news to the afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners;

“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Yet those who wait for the Lord
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;

He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,”

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

I and the Father are one.”

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court.

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”

Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

“Pray, then, in this way:
‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.

But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.

But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.

For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.