"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

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

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

Yes, we know that all things go on working together for the good of those who keep on loving God, who are called in accordance with God's purpose.

Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must 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, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.

He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

For if with your lips you acknowledge the fact that Jesus is Lord, and in your hearts you believe that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

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

And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest.

If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.

Then He said to them, "You must go all over the world and preach the good news to all the creation.

There is no salvation by anyone else, for no one else in all the wide world has been appointed among men as our only medium by which to be saved."

For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.

"Stop letting your hearts be troubled; keep on believing in God, and also in me.

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

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

Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I can do anything through Him who gives me strength.

Stop being worried about anything, but always, in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving, keep on making your wants known to God.

So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

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

When the day of Pentecost had now come, they were all meeting in one mind,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live 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 trusts, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.

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

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.

Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age;

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.

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

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

For God's anger from heaven is being uncovered 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 release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

Now faith is the assurance of the things we hope for, the proof of the reality of the things we cannot see.

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

For God's message is alive and full of power in action, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the depths of soul and spirit, to the dividing of joints and marrow, and passing judgment on the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

Everybody must obey the civil authorities that are over him, for no authority exists except by God's permission; the existing authorities have been established by Him,

And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.

"When the Son of Man comes in His splendor, and all the angels with Him, He will take His seat on His splendid throne,

It was through Him that everything came into existence, and apart from Him not a single thing came into existence.

The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

For God's favor has appeared with its offer of salvation to all mankind,

"Do not suppose that I have come to set aside the law or the prophets.

From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.

And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

Yes, He is the exact likeness of the unseen God, His first-born Son who existed before any created thing,

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

but without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that there is a God and that He gives rewards to all who earnestly try to find Him.

while we are waiting for the realization of our blessed hope at the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus,

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

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

You must consider it the purest joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages as the Spirit granted them to utter divine things.

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

as the Scriptures say: "Not a single human creature is upright,

Consecrate them by your truth; your message is truth.

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

But if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who generously gives to everyone and never reproaches one with its lack, and it will be given to him.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,

So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day.

After saying this, He was taken up while they were looking at Him, and a cloud swept under Him and carried Him out of their sight.

On the first day of the week when we had met to break bread, Paul addressed them, since he was leaving the next day, and prolonged his speech till midnight.

but in your hearts be consecrated to Christ as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who asks a reason for the hope you have. But you must do it in gentleness and reverence,

Now 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 a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice

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

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

Forever since the creation of the world, His invisible characteristics -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been made intelligible and clearly visible by His works. So they are without excuse,

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in dazzling luxury every day.

I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

You must have a turn of mind that is free from avarice; you must be content with what you have, for God Himself has said, "I will never fail you, I will never forsake you."

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.

The Father and I are one."

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

that you may better know the certainty of those things that you have been taught.

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

Indeed, just as men must die but once and after that be judged,

since you have learned by experience that the Lord is kind.

because of the truth that lives on in our hearts and will be with us forever:

"Keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.

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

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, 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.

Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.

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

Now the birth of Christ Jesus occurred under these conditions: After His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they had lived together, she was found to be an expectant mother through the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.

Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,

Just then an expert in the law got up to test Him by asking, "Teacher, what shall I do to get possession of eternal life?"

Also we do not want you to have any misunderstanding, brothers, about those who are falling asleep, so as to keep you from grieving over them as others do who have no hope.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

You too, as you have heard the message of the truth, the good news that means your salvation, and as you have trusted in Him too, have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?

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

Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.

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

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. 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 heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."

So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,

For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

My brothers, what good is there in a man's saying that he has faith, if he has no good deeds to prove it? Such faith cannot save him, can it?

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

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

So this is the way you must pray: Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered.

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

What is our conclusion then? Are we to continue to sin for His unmerited favor to multiply?

Stop getting drunk on wine, for that means profligacy, but ever 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 -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

Now 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, the man Christ Jesus

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

"You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,

It is through union with Him that we have redemption by His blood and the forgiveness of our shortcomings, in accordance with the generosity of His unmerited favor

Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,

But if we continue to live in the light, just as He is in the light, we have unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continues to cleanse us from every sin.

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

"Stop criticizing others, so that you may not be criticized yourselves.

For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.

I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.

But you are not living on the plane of the lower nature, but on the spiritual plane, if the Spirit of God has His home within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went 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 exactly 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 feast of the Jews, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

for it was through Him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him.

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

"Go in by the narrow gate, for broad and roomy is the road that leads to destruction, and many are going in by it.

Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

So if you have been raised to life in fellowship with Christ, keep on seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.

Then He said: "There was a man who had two sons.

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

Let us stop neglecting our meeting together, as some do, but let us continue to encourage one another, and all the more because you see that the great day is drawing near.

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

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

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

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

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

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

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.

For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,