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⁹For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised him up from the dead, you shall be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart, we believe unto justice; but with the mouth, confession is unto salvation. ¹¹For Scripture says: “All those who believe in him shall not be confounded.” ¹²For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, richly in all who call upon him. ¹³For all those who have called upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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.

³¹So they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and then you will be saved, with your household.”

³⁴who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus who has died, and who has indeed also risen again, is at the right hand of God, and even now he intercedes for us.

¹“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also.

⁹The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. ²Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit. ³You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.

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.

⁷For this reason, accept one another, just as Christ also has accepted you, in the honor of God.

¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give another Advocate to you, so that he may abide with you for eternity:

⁵For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

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

²⁶And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”

¹⁵I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.

¹¹And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.