The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

And Jacob, of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the exile to Babylon is fourteen; and from the exile to Babylon to Christ is fourteen.

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

So when he had gathered together all the chief priests and rabbis of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born.

But when John heard, in the prison, what the Christ was doing, he sent by some of his disciples to ask him,

So Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Then he enjoined his disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.

After this Jesus the Christ began to show his disciples how he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again.

"What is your opinion concerning the Christ? Whose Son is he?" "David's," they answered.

"And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

for many will come in my name saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

"If at that time any one should say to you, 'See, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' believe him not.

For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

But Jesus kept silence. Again the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the Living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

"Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it who struck you?"

So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"

And Pilate asked, "What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?" What one voice they shouted, "Let him be crucified!"

Beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

And he continued questioning them, "But you yourselves, Who do you say I am?" Peter in reply said to him, "You are Christ."

For whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, in solemn truth I tell you, that he shall certainly not lose his reward.

While he was teaching in the Temple courts, Jesus in his turn asked. "How is it that the Scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?

"At that time if any one tell you, 'See, here is Christ,' or 'See, there he is,' do not believe it;

for false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show signs and wonders, to lead astray the very chosen, if they can.

But he remained silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest questioned him. "Are you the Christ," he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

The Christ! The King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe." They also who had been crucified with Jesus kept reviling him.

Now it has been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

whether perhaps he were the Christ, John answered, saying to all of them. "I indeed am baptizing you in water, but One is coming after me, mightier than I, whose shoe-latchet I am not worthy to unloose. He shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and in fire.

Demons also came out of many, screaming and saying, "You are the Son of God." But he rebuked them, and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Then he said to them, "But who do you say I am?" Then Peter answered saying, "The Christ of God."

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?

"Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe;

and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us."

"Behooved it not the Christ to suffer thus, and then to enter into his glory?"

and he said: "Thus it is written that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead, the third day;

For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

He acknowledged??e did not deny it??ut acknowledged, "I am not the Christ."

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?

"But we know this man and where he is from; but when the Christ comes no one will know where he comes from."

But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"

Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ is coming of the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, David's town?"

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"Yes, Master," she answered, "I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

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

but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

"he, foreseeing this, spoke of the resurrection of Christ that neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

"Therefore let the whole House of Israel know assuredly that Gods has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you have crucified."

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

"I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have, this I am going to give to you; in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, walk!"

"But God has thus fulfilled what he foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

"be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you strong and well.

"The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and against his Christ.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and began to preach Christ there.

But when they believed Philip, who was preaching glad tidings about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

And Philip said, "If you believe with your whole heart, you may." The eunuch answered, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."

But Saul gained more and more influence, and kept putting the Jews who lived in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ.

Peter said to him. "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Rise and make your own bed!"

"You cannot but know the message which he sent to the descendants of Israel, when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ who is Lord of all;

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain with them for a time.

"So if God gave them the same gift as he gave to us, when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"

"On the contrary we believe that it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we and they shall be saved."

"men who have risked their very lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

"how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."

He continued to preach the kingdom of God, and to teach about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, quite unmolested.

From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,

this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature,

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

among whom you also are called to be Jesus Christ's.

To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. May God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, bless you, and give you peace.

First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,

but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

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

For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

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

And not only that, but we exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now obtained our reconciliation.

But the free gift is not like the transgression; for if through the transgression of that one man the rest on men died, much more did the grace of God and the gift given in his grace in the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow unto the rest of men.

For if through the transgression of the one, death reigned as king through the one, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,??urs!

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

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

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.

Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

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

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.