assurance
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16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
13I am writing this to you, so that you may know that you have Eternal Life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.
16For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.
12For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.
22So, let us draw near with a true heart, in the fullness of faith, having hearts cleansed from an evil conscience, and bodies absolved with clean water.
4For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation.
36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But whoever is unbelieving toward the Son shall not see life; instead the wrath of God remains upon him.”
14And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.
24Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.
28And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.
2May their hearts be consoled and instructed in charity, with all the riches of a plenitude of understanding, with knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus.
11Yet we desire that each one of you display the same solicitude toward the fulfillment of hope, even unto the end,