"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

since all have sinned and lack the glory which comes from God;

Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

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

Now we know that all things continually work together for good to those who love God, to those who have been the called according to his purpose.

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

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

Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by me.

"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

"Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

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

He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

And the Word became flesh and tented with us. And we gazed on his glory??lory as of the Father's only Son??ull of grace and truth.

But God gives proof of his love to us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

and they stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.

"Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.

"In very truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

Thus, then, sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death and so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

"There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men, in which we must be saved."

So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

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

And Jesus came forward to them and spoke to them, saying. "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Since we stand justified as the result of faith, let us continue to enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Thus there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

Now two days after this there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there;

When the day of Pentecost was fully come, and they were all together in the same place,

I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GOD'S SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

I give you a new commandment, Love one another!

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

"But continue to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

"and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth.

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments,

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

"I tell you solemnly," Jesus answered, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

Now faith is the title-deed of things hoped for; the putting to the proof of things not seen.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

"Moreover I say to you that you are Petros (a rock), and on this petra (rock) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against her.

"But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he take his seat on the throne of his glory;

All things came into being through him, and apart from him nothing that exists came into being.

The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

"But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

He came as a witness, that he might bear testimony concerning the Light??o that all men might believe through him.

"For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men

"Do not suppose that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am come not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Finally, my brothers, let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Jesus answered, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

He is a visible 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, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if virtue is anything, if honor is anything, be always thinking about these.

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

While we look for the blessed hope and epiphany of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables,

My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,

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 believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.

As it is written. There is none righteous, no, not one;

Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household."

If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.

"I am the resurrection and the life," said Jesus. "He who believes in me, even if he has died, shall live.

Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;

When he had said this, and while they were looking at him, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him up out of their sight.

On the first day of the week we met for the breaking of bread, and Paul, who was going away the next morning, began preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse until midnight.

But consecrate Christ in your hearts, as Lord. Be always in readiness to make and answer to any one who asks you a reason for the hope that is within you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.

"In solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that before Abraham came into existence, I am."

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

God, who in ancient days spoke to our ancestors in the prophets, at many different times and by various methods,

"Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and made merry every day in splendor.

Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking! If any one listens to my voice, and opens the door, I will come to him, and sup with him, and he with me.

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Let your life be untainted by love of money; be content with such things as you have; for God himself has said, I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

"Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

"I and my Father are one."

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.

And since it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the judgment;

since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

"Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee, called Nazareth,

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

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

When they heard that, they went out one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus was left behind alone??nd the woman in the middle of the court.

"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hilltop cannot be hid;

The birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. After his mother, Mary, had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

In him there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Is any in good spirits? Let him sing unto his harp. Is any one of you ill? Let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;

Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

He was not the Light; it was to bear testimony concerning the Light that he came into being.

"The Holy Spirit shall come upon you," said the angel, "and the power of the most High shall overshadow you, and therefore the holy offspring which is born, shall be called the son of God.

and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord,

"If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother.

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

"Repent then! and reform, from the blotting out of your sins, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

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

For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?

"So pray in this way. "Our Father who art in heaven, May thy name be hallowed,

that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and the sea is no more.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

For God is one; and one is mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus,

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

"You are searching the Scriptures because you suppose that in tem you have eternal life; and though these are they that bear witness concerning me,

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again;

But is we are passing our life in the light, as he is in the light, we ever have partnership with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ is cleansing us from every sin.

No man has ever seen God; God, only begotten, who is in the bosom of the Father??e has interpreted him.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

"Judge not, that you may be judged, yourselves;

For the very first thing I taught you was that I had myself been taught, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture,

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

But you are not earthly, but spiritual, if indeed the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and there he stood among them, saying. "Peace to you!"

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

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

for in him was the universe created, things in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; by him and for him all have been created;

And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

"Enter by the narrow gate; for broad is the gate and wide the road that leads to destruction, and many are they who go in by it;

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus replied; "Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

And he said: "There was a man who had two sons.

Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

Now in these days while the number of the disciples was multiplying, the Grecian Jews began to murmur against the Hebrews, because their widows were habitually overlooked in the distribution of alms.

"Peace I leave with you. My own peace I give to you. It is not the world's 'Peace' I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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

"For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door is opened.

He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.

"Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

Jesus also was invited to the wedding, and his disciples.

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt lose its savor, in what way shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing but to be thrown out and trodden under foot of men.

He being an emanation of God's glory and stamp of his substance, and upholding the universe by the utterances of his power, after by himself making purification of our sins, has taken his seat on the right hand of the Majesty on High.

Be temperate, be vigilant; because your enemy, the devil, is prowling about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.

"Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will never reject.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

Then Peter began to speak. "Of a truth I begin to see quite plainly that God is no respecter of persons;

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him.

Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you might set right the things left unfinished, and appoint presbyters in every city as I had instructed you;

So Jesus answered them in these words. "In solemn truth I tell that the Son cannot do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does also.

After the birth of Jesus, which took place at Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod, lo! certain Magi arrived in Jerusalem, saying.

You are all sons of God through your faith in Jesus Christ.

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

But first be assured of this??hat no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

"Nor do I pray for them alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.

Now the last day, that the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried in a loud voice.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

Now the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they got there they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue.

For I am fully persuaded that neither death nor life, Neither angels nor principalities, nor powers, Neither the present world nor the world to come, Nor the powers of Nature,

For there are three who bear testimony, the Spirit, and the water,

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.

"So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

My first account, O Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus began doing and teaching from the beginning down to the day when,

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

Grace to you and peace from God our Father in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

And every one went to be registered, each to the town to which he belonged.