For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,

Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;

For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

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

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth."

"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

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

as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,

that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

and they were constant in listening to the teaching of the Apostles and in their attendance at the Communion, that is, the Breaking of the Bread, and at prayer.

"Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.

If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.

What follows? This comparison. Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and so death passed to all mankind in turn, in that all sinned.

Then He said to them, "Go the whole world over, and proclaim the Good News to all mankind.

And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved."

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.

The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming into the world.

Jesus however came near and said to them, "All power in Heaven and over the earth has been given to me.

Standing then acquitted as the result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power.

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

At length, on the day of the Harvest Festival, they had all met in one place;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God's power which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes--the Jew first, and then the Gentile.

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

Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--a ruler among the Jews.

Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."

Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.

"Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.

For "every one, without exception, who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

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

For God's anger is being revealed from Heaven against all impiety and against the iniquity of men who through iniquity suppress the truth. God is angry:

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners of war and recovery of sight to the blind: to send away free those whom tyranny has crushed,

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

Now faith is a well-grounded assurance of that for which we hope, and a conviction of the reality of things which we do not see.

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

For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence.

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

To you Gentiles also, who were dead through your offences and sins,

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; for no one is a ruler except by God's permission, and our present rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him.

And I declare to you that you are Peter, and that upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the might of Hades shall not triumph over it.

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

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

The Jews at Beroea were of a nobler disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they very readily received the Message, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether it was as Paul stated.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light--so that all might believe through him.

For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,

"Do not for a moment suppose that I have come to abrogate the Law or the Prophets: I have not come to abrogate them but to give them their completion.

In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever wins respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is of good repute--if there is any virtue or anything deemed worthy of praise--cherish the thought of these things.

But where there is no faith it is impossible truly to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who earnestly try to find Him.

in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

Reckon it nothing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages according as the Spirit gave them words to utter.

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

Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.

Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

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

And if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives with open hand to all men, and without upbraiding; and it will be given him.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;

When He had said this, and while they were looking at Him, He was carried up, and a cloud closing beneath Him hid Him from their sight.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul, who was going away the next morning, was preaching to them, and prolonged his discourse till midnight.

but in your hearts consecrate Christ as Lord, being always ready to make your defence to any one who asks from you a reason for the hope which you cherish.

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

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

For, from the very creation of the world, His invisible perfections--namely His eternal power and divine nature--have been rendered intelligible and clearly visible by His works, so that these men are without excuse.

But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation, a people belonging specially to God, that you may make known the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.

God, who in ancient days spoke to our forefathers in many distinct messages and by various methods through the Prophets,

"There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,

I am now standing at the door and am knocking. If any one listens to My voice and opens the door, I will go in to be with him and will feast with him, and he shall feast with Me.

"Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.

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

"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

Your lives should be untainted by love for money. Be content with what you have; for God Himself has said, "I will never, never let go your hand: I will never never forsake you."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the Light of the world," He said; "the man who follows me shall certainly not walk in the dark, but shall have the light of Life."

"Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

I and the Father are one."

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

that you may fully know the truth of the things which you have been taught by word of mouth.

"I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

And since it is reserved for all mankind once to die, and afterwards to be judged;

if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord.

for the sake of the truth which is continually in our hearts and will be with us for ever.

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

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

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

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

They listened to Him, and then, beginning with the eldest, took their departure, one by one, till all were gone. And Jesus was left behind alone--and the woman in the centre of the court.

*You* are the light of the world; a town cannot be hid if built on a hill-top.

The circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ were these. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they were united in marriage, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world.

In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Is any one 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 an expounder of the Law stood up to test Him with a question. "Rabbi," he asked, "what shall I do to inherit the Life of the Ages?"

Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no hope.

Every gift which is good, and every perfect boon, is from above, and comes down from the Father, who is the source of all Light. In Him there is no variation nor the slightest suggestion of change.

He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.

He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give testimony concerning the Light.

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for this reason your holy offspring will be called 'the Son of God.'

The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;

"If your brother acts wrongly towards you, go and point out his fault to him when only you and he are there. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

who said, "Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven."

Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?

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

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

"In this manner therefore pray: 'Our Father who art in Heaven, may Thy name be kept holy;

In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?

Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy--

And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.

But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

Just at this time an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for the registration of the whole Empire.

For there is but one God and but one Mediator between God and men--Christ Jesus, Himself man;

At that time Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the Desert in order to be tempted by the Devil.

"You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace,

Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--

But if we live in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

"Judge not, that you may not be judged;

For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!"

and, asking, "What has become of His promised Return? For from the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue as they have been ever since the creation of the world."

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I 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 in Him was created the universe of things in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers--all were created, and exist through and for Him.

And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it;

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.

For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;

But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.

He went on to say, "There was a man who had two sons.

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.

because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

About this time, as the number of disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were habitually overlooked in the daily ministration.

Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

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

For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

"*You* are the salt of the earth; but if salt has become tasteless, in what way can it regain its saltness? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown away and trodden on by the passers by.

He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,