christianity

¹⁷So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

¹⁴For the charity of Christ urges us on, in consideration of this: that if one died for all, then all have died.

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

²⁶And they were conversing there in the Church for an entire year. And they taught such a great multitude, that it was at Antioch that the disciples were first known by the name of Christian.

¹⁶But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, he should not be ashamed. Instead, he should glorify God in that name.

¹⁶Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, be as prudent as serpents and as simple as doves. ¹⁷But beware of men. For they will hand you over to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. ¹⁸And you shall be led before both rulers and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹But when they hand you over, do not choose to think about how or what to speak. For what to speak shall be given to you in that hour. ²⁰For it is not you who will be speaking, but the Spirit of your Father, who will speak in you. ²¹And brother will hand over brother to death, and father will hand over son. And children will rise up against parents and bring about their deaths.

¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

⁶Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

⁴For God did not spare those Angels who sinned, but instead delivered them, as if dragged down by infernal ropes, into the torments of the underworld, to be reserved unto judgment.

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God. ⁹And this is not of works, so that no one may glory.

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.

³⁴Do not think that I came to send peace upon the earth. I came, not to send peace, but the sword. ³⁵For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. ³⁶And the enemies of a man will be those of his own household. ³⁷Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

¹⁰For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

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. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

¹⁵But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”