for today, in the town of David, a Savior for you has been born who is your Messiah and Lord.

and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

and Jacob of Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus called Christ.

And Joseph went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David, to register with Mary, who was engaged to him and who was soon to become a mother. While they were there, the time came for her child to be born, read more.
and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

to Jesus the negotiator of a new agreement, and to sprinkled blood that speaks more powerfully than even Abel's.

"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.

And this will be my agreement with them, When I take away their sins."

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

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.

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,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,

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.

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

You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.

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.

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.

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.