Mediators

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. — read the full passage →

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

“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,

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. — read the full passage →

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. — read the full passage →

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him; — read the full passage →

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. — read the full passage →

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. — read the full passage →

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? — read the full passage →

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.