Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

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;

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

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

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in 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.

And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

Brothers who are beloved by God, we know that He has chosen you,

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

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.

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

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

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form. And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

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.

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

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.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.