judaism

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.

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am.”

³¹Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will form a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

³²Therefore, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.

¹²Yet whoever did accept him, those who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the sons of God.

⁷Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.

²⁹And if you are Christ’s, then are you the offspring of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.

¹¹But Christ, standing as the High Priest of future good things, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, one not made by hand, that is, not of this creation, ¹²entered once into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption, neither by the blood of goats, nor of calves, but by his own blood. ¹³For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a calf, when these are sprinkled, sanctify those who have been defiled, in order to cleanse the flesh, ¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God? ¹⁵And thus he is the Mediator of the new testament, so that, by his death, he intercedes for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, so that those who have been called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. ¹⁶For where there is a testament, it is necessary for the death of the one who testifies to intervene.

¹And so, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John, ²(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples) ³he left behind Judea, and he traveled again to Galilee. ⁴Now he needed to cross through Samaria. ⁵Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

¹The book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. ²Abraham conceived Isaac. And Isaac conceived Jacob. And Jacob conceived Judah and his brothers. ³And Judah conceived Perez and Zerah by Tamar. And Perez conceived Hezron. And Hezron conceived Ram. ⁴And Ram conceived Amminadab. And Amminadab conceived Nahshon. And Nahshon conceived Salmon. ⁵And Salmon conceived Boaz by Rahab. And Boaz conceived Obed by Ruth. And Obed conceived Jesse. ⁶And Jesse conceived king David. And king David conceived Solomon, by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

¹Brothers, certainly the will of my heart, and my prayer to God, is for them unto salvation. ²For I offer testimony to them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice of God. ⁴For the end of the law, Christ, is unto justice for all who believe. ⁵And Moses wrote, about the justice that is of the law, that the man who will have done justice shall live by justice. ⁶But the justice that is of faith speaks in this way: Do not say in your heart: “Who shall ascend into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down);

⁶But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

¹Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude. ²Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. ³For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law. ⁴You are being emptied of Christ, you who are being justified by the law. You have fallen from grace. ⁵For in spirit, by faith, we await the hope of justice. ⁶For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but only faith which works through charity.

¹⁴For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.