Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!" Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God. read more. Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual. Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

For no matter how many guides you may have in the Christian life, you will not have many fathers; for in this matter of union with Christ, I became your father, through preaching the good news to you.

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

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

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. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it. read more. For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

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

Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

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

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

Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. Those who are physical cannot please God. read more. But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

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

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

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved. And he raised us with Christ, and through our union with Christ Jesus made us sit down with him in heaven,

at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus. You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. read more. You must adopt a new attitude of mind, and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross.

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

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

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

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 read more. 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.

He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.

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

But by the same command the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, and are kept for the day when godless men are to be judged and destroyed. But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day. read more. The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance. The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on it the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth and all its works will melt away. If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead, while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt. In fulfilment of his promise we expect new heavens and a new earth, where uprightness will prevail.

No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.

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

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

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

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

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

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

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God. Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

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

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

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.

He will do honor to me, for he will take what is mine and communicate it to you. All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

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,

Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

Before Peter had finished saying these words, the holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message.

And he directed that they should be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on there a few days.

The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews. There were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them, however, who when they reached Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, and told them the good news about the Lord Jesus. read more. The Lord's hand was with them, and there were a great many who believed and turned to the Lord.

Then he called for lights and rushed in, and fell trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas. He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?"

he said to them, "Did you receive the holy Spirit when you became believers?" "No," they said to him, "we never even heard that there was a holy Spirit." "How then were you baptized?" he asked. "With John's baptism," they answered. read more. "John's baptism was a baptism in token of repentance," said Paul, "and he told the people to believe in him who was to follow him, that is, in Jesus." When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and when Paul laid his hands on them, the holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in foreign tongues and with prophetic inspiration. There were about twelve of them in all. He went to the synagogue there, and for three months spoke confidently, holding discussions and trying to persuade them about the Kingdom of God.

What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.

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.

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am physical, sold into slavery to sin.

My inner nature agrees with the divine law, but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. Those who are physical cannot please God.

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

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God." So each one of us must give an account of himself to God.

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

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.

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

and how surpassingly great his power is for us who believe; like the mighty strength

He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient. read more. We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved. And he raised us with Christ, and through our union with Christ Jesus made us sit down with him in heaven,

And he raised us with Christ, and through our union with Christ Jesus made us sit down with him in heaven,

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. So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. read more. They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

You must adopt a new attitude of mind,

So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

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

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

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

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

All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all believers who love me. God bless you all.

Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life??hese do not come from the Father, but from the world;

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

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

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God, owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

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

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

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

You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

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.

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

Remember me to the brothers in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets at her house.

Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.