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We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
Calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ...
The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ...
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them ...
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him. ...
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”
Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...
And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.
Thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Z