The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

He must become greater; I must become less.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.