Accepting Christ

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

and it shall be, every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, — read the full passage →

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens; — read the full passage →

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end--ways of death.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

so that the son of man is lord also of the sabbath.'

Thou hast heard, see the whole of it, And ye, do ye not declare? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, And things reserved that ye knew not.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

not of works, that no one may boast;

and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →