Approachability

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, — read the full passage →

according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” — read the full passage →

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”; — read the full passage →

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, — read the full passage →

From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn’t want anyone to know it, but he couldn’t escape notice. — read the full passage →

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; — read the full passage →

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. — read the full passage →

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”