2 Corinthians 5:17
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyone— for kings and all those in authority—so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity. This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
“The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“Who is this man who told you to pick it up and walk?” they asked.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
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