The birth-roll of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Jacob the father of Joseph, and Joseph (to whom the virgin Mary was betrothed) the father of Jesus, who is called 'Christ.'

Thus all the generations from Abraham to David number fourteen, from David to the Babylonian captivity fourteen, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ fourteen.

The birth of [Jesus] Christ came about thus. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together she was discovered to be pregnant by the holy Spirit.

Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples

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

Then he forbade the disciples to tell anyone he was the Christ.

"Tell me," he said, "what you think about the Christ. Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

nor must you be called 'leaders,' for One is your leader, even the Christ.

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

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it;

Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

and crying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! tell us who struck you!"

so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?"

Pilate said, "Then what am I to do with Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?" They all said, "Have him crucified!"

THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ [the Son of God].

So he inquired of them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Christ."

Whoever gives you a cup of water because you belong to Christ, I tell you truly, he shall not miss his reward.

And as Jesus taught in the temple he asked, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son?

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Look, here is the Christ,' or, 'Look, there he is,' do not believe it;

He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.

He said to them, "And who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "The Christ of God."

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

"Tell us if you are the Christ." He said to them, "You will not believe me if I tell you,

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

Had not the Christ to suffer thus and so enter his glory?"

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

he frankly confessed ??he did not deny it, he frankly confessed, "I am not the Christ."

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ?

No, we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ does come, no one will know where he comes from."

Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"

others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

So the Jews gathered round him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."

So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay.

So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"

Now I know, brothers, that you acted in ignorance, like your rulers ??18 though this was how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the lips of all the prophets, namely the sufferings of his Christ.

and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ,

you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

The kings of the earth stood ready, the rulers mustered together against the Lord and his Christ.

not for a single day did they cease to teach and preach the gospel of Jesus the Christ in the temple and at home.

Philip travelled down to a town in Samaria, where he preached Christ to the people.

Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;

"Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain for some days.

Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I ??how could I try to thwart God?"

who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

She did this for a number of days. Then Paul turned in annoyance and told the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you out of her!" And it left her that very moment.

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Some days later Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus;

that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"

he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,

including yourselves who are called to belong to Jesus Christ:

to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn.

but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

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

Not only so, but we triumph in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now enjoy our reconciliation.

but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men.

For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death!

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

We believe that as we have died with Christ we shall also live with him;

for we know that Christ never dies after his resurrection from the dead ??death has no more hold over him;

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)

Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.