He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"

I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea!' and has no doubt in his mind, but has faith that what he says will happen, shall have it. Therefore I tell you, whenever you pray or ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you shall have it.

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

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." 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.

He was listening to Paul as he talked, when Paul looked at him and, seeing that he had faith that he would be cured,

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

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

But let worldly fictions and old wives' tales alone. Train yourself for the religious life. Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.

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

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 God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved. read more. 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. And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light. For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed. But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God. After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized. John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized. For John had not yet been put in prison. So a discussion arose between John's disciples and a man from Judea, about purification. And they went to John and said to him, "Master, the man who was with you across the Jordan, and to whom you yourself gave testimony, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him." John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven. You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.' It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete. He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less." He who comes from above is above all others. A son of earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is above all others. It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true. For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure. The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands. 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.

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

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

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.

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."

When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

making no difference between us and them, but cleansing their hearts by faith.

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

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

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

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

Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life. For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him, read more. for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer, for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin. If we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, for we know that Christ, once raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more hold on him. For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

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

But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them? And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!" read more. It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?" So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.

they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself, enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself. For it is under his control that the whole system, adjusted and united by each ligament of its equipment, develops in proportion to the functioning of each particular part, and so builds itself up through love.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith.

until I can make clear to the authorities why I cannot help telling it.

Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile.

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"

So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

for what does the Scripture say? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness."

So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,

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

For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith??27 to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.

Therefore, I must tell you that no one who is speaking under the influence of the Spirit of God ever says, "Curse Jesus!" and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord!" without being under the influence of the holy Spirit.

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

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.

Just as Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him as uprightness.

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

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.

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? If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, read more. and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do? So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead. But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds. Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder. But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing? Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar? You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds, and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend." You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith. Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road? Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is stronger still; for the value of God's testimony lies in this, that he has testified to his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God possesses that testimony in his heart. Anyone who will not believe God has made him a liar, for he has refused to believe the testimony that God has borne to his Son. read more. And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life. I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.

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.

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!" Jesus answered, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for human nature has not disclosed this to you, but my Father in heaven! read more. 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. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and whatever you permit on earth will be held in heaven to be permitted." Then he warned the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ. It was then that Jesus Christ for the first time explained to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and endure great suffering there at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day. And Peter took him aside and began to reprove him for it, saying, "God bless you, Master! that can never happen to you!" But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!" Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it. For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life? For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone for what he has done. I tell you, some of you who stand here will certainly live to see the Son of Man come to reign!"

Afterward, when he was alone, the disciples went to Jesus and said to him, "Why could we not drive it out?"

But whoever hinders one of these children who believe in me might better have a great millstone hung around his neck and be sunk in the open sea.

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

"You must all drink from it, for this is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people, for the forgiveness of their sins.

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;

"Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, Because he has turned his attention to his people, and brought about their deliverance, And he has produced a mighty Savior for us In the house of his servant David. read more. "By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,

Thus showing mercy to our forefathers, And keeping his sacred agreement, "And the oath that he swore to our forefather Abraham, read more. That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies, And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives. "And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready, Bringing his people the knowledge of salvation Through the forgiveness of their sins. "Because the heart of our God is merciful, And so the day will dawn upon us from on high, To shine on men who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, And guide our feet into the way of peace."

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

and they appeared in glory and spoke of his departure which he was to go through with at Jerusalem.

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

The apostles said to the Master, "Give us more faith."

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name. read more. You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!" The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?" read more. But he was speaking of his body as the sanctuary. So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said. Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

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."

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

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.

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.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and marvels you will never believe!"

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

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."

As he said this, many believed in him.

Jesus learned that they had excluded him, and he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

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

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

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

for because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and becoming believers in Jesus.

Jesus answered, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest. read more. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

in fulfilment of the saying of the prophet Isaiah, "Lord, who has believed our account? And to whom has the Lord's mighty arm been unveiled?"

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

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him."

You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves. I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.

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.

"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him. But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified. read more. But God set aside the pain of death and raised him up, for death could not control him. For David says of him, 'I constantly regarded the Lord before me, For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be displaced. Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices, And my body will still live in hope. For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed. You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.' "Brothers, one may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his grave is here among us to this very day. But as he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised him with an oath that he would put one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw the resurrection of the Christ and told of it, for he was not deserted in death and his body was not destroyed. He is Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, and to whose resurrection we are all witnesses. So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear. "For David did not go up to heaven, but he said, 'The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool.' "Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ." When they heard this, they were stung to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" read more. 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,

The believers all shared everything they had with one another,

it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well. He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. read more. 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."

" 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and begone! For I am doing something in your times Which you will never believe even when it is related to you!' "

since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."

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.

That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?

Does this happiness apply to those who are circumcised, or to those who are uncircumcised as well? What we say is, Abraham's faith was credited to him as uprightness.

That was why it was credited to him as uprightness.

who was given up to death to make up for our offenses, and raised to life to make us upright.

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

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us. read more. For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

No! This is what it says: "God's message is close to you, on your lips and in your mind"??hat is, the message about faith that we preach. 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. read more. For with their minds men believe and are made upright, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment and are saved.

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised, read more. and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either, and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised. For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised; and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins. Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished. If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world. But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep. For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead. For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again. But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power, for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be overthrown will be death, for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him. And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone.

In the same spirit of faith as his who said, "I believed, and so I spoke," I too believe, and so I speak,

because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

(for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)??8 yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord.

Just as Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him as uprightness.

Just as Abraham had faith in God and it was credited to him as uprightness. So you see, the real descendants of Abraham are the men of faith. read more. The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith,

But before this faith came, we were kept shut up under the Law, in order to obtain the faith that was to be revealed.

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

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of himself, enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people, read more. and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength he exerted in raising Christ from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heaven, far above all hierarchies, authorities, powers, and dominions, and all titles that can be bestowed not only in this world but in the world to come. He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church, which is his body, filled by him who fills everything everywhere.

He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything. For all the divine fulness chose to dwell in him, read more. and through him to reconcile to God all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through his blood shed on the cross. And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body. In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then by means of Jesus God will bring back with him those who have fallen asleep.

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

For we have had good news preached to us, just as they did, but the message they heard did them no good because they did not agree through faith with what they heard.

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary, taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance. read more. For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically, how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

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

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.

Faith made him leave Egypt, unafraid of the king's anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is unseen.

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? If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, read more. and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do? So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead. But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds. Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder. But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing? Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar? You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds, and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend."

and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend." You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith. read more. Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road? Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.

You must love him, though you have not seen him, but since you believe in him though you do not now see him, rejoice with triumphant, unutterable joy

For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!" It is you, therefore, who believe who see its value, but for men who do not believe, "The stone which the builders refused has been made a cornerstone," read more. and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny.

for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.

John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood

and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood he has made us a kingdom of priests for his God and Father??o him be glory and power forever. Amen.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,

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.

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.

(for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)??8 yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord.

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.

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? If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, read more. and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do? So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead. But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds. Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder. But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing? Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar? You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds, and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend." You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith. Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road? Just as the body without the spirit is dead, faith is dead without good deeds.

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

When Jesus heard this he was astonished, and said to his followers, "I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such faith as this.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?

For your part, you must keep the faith you have to yourself, as between God and you. He is a happy man who has no fault to find with himself in following the course that he approves, but the man who has misgivings about eating, and then eats, is thereby condemned, for he is not following his convictions, and anything that does not rest on conviction is wrong.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.