For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

For all men sin and come short of the glory of God,

All Scripture is divinely inspired, and useful in teaching, in reproof, in correcting faults, and in training in uprightness,

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,

And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Come to me, all of you who toil and are burdened, and I will let you rest.

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

On the day of the Harvest Festival, they were all meeting together,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

"If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth.

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Faith means the assurance of what we hope for; it is our conviction about things that we cannot see.

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,

But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.

"When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,

"Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them.

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

He is a likeness of the unseen God, born before any creature,

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.

while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,

and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to say in foreign languages whatever the Spirit prompted them to utter.

He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

"Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"

If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

So they welcomed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people joined them that day.

As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight.

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul addressed them, as he was going away the next morning, and he prolonged his address until midnight.

but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

"There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.

Here I stand knocking at the door. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and dine with him, and he with me.

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,

The Father and I are one."

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

so that you may be reliably informed about the things you have been taught.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

And just as men are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

since you have tasted the Lord's kindness.

Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

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

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You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

Now these were the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married it was found that she was about to become a mother through the influence of the holy Spirit.

Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

If any one is sick, he should call in the elders of the church and have them pray over him, and pour oil on him in the name of the Lord,

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

You also have heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and believed in him, and through union with him you have been marked with the seal of the holy Spirit that was promised,

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.

A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

This, therefore, is the way you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered!

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

Then what shall we conclude? Are we to continue to sin to increase the spread of mercy?

Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

For there is but one God, and one intermediary between God and men??he man Christ Jesus,

Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

It is through union with him and through his blood that we have been delivered and our offenses forgiven,

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

"Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you.

For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

and saying, "Where is his promised coming? For ever since our forefathers fell asleep everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation!"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities??ll things were created through him and for him.

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it.

While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.

And he said, "A man had two sons.

As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.

Let us not neglect meeting together as some do, but let us encourage one another, all the more as you can see that the great Day is coming nearer.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

I leave you a blessing; I give you my own blessing. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Your minds must not be troubled or afraid.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

For our high priest is not one who is incapable of sympathy with our weaknesses, but he has been tempted in every way just as we have, without committing any sin.

Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.

He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you.

In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality,

And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.