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9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
6But without faith, it is impossible to please God. For whoever approaches God must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.
15Whoever has confessed that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
2Lord, I heard what has been said about you, and I was afraid. Lord, your work, in the midst of years, revive it. In the midst of years, you will make it known. When you have become angry, you will remember mercy.
37But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us. 38For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, 39nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
10The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
18You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.
18You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. 19Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
5be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
13Brothers, I do not consider that I have already attained this. Instead, I do one thing: forgetting those things that are behind, and extending myself toward those things that are ahead,
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
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.
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.
9For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
3It is better to go to a house of mourning, than to a house of feasting. For in the former, we are admonished about the end of all things, so that the living consider what may be in the future. 4Anger is better than laughter. For through the sadness of the countenance, the soul of one who offends may be corrected. 5The heart of the wise is a place of mourning, and the heart of the foolish is a place of rejoicing. 6It is better to be corrected by a wise man, than to be deceived by the false praise of the foolish. 7For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness. 8A false accusation troubles the wise man and saps the strength of his heart.
17Sanctify them in truth. Your word is truth.
5and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the leader over the kings of the earth, who has loved us and has washed us from our sins with his blood, 6and who has made us into a kingdom and into priests for God and for his Father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
9Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide, 10for fornicators, for males who sleep with males, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11which is in accord with the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, the Gospel which has been entrusted to me. 12I give thanks to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he has considered me faithful, placing me in the ministry, 13though previously I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contemptuous. But then I obtained the mercy of God. For I had been acting ignorantly, in unbelief. 14And so the grace of our Lord has abounded greatly, with the faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.
71It is good for me that you humbled me, so that I may learn your justifications.
62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth. 5For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a redemption for all, as a testimony in its proper time.
3And he told this parable to them, saying: 4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’ 7I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.
7The Lord is good, and a comforter in the day of tribulation, and he knows those who hope in him. 8And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries. 9What are you thinking up against the Lord? He will accomplish the consummation. There shall not rise up a double tribulation.
38Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
15But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your sins.
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. 21I do not reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ died in vain.
13Brothers, I do not consider that I have already attained this. Instead, I do one thing: forgetting those things that are behind, and extending myself toward those things that are ahead, 14I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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;
38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and he said to them, “I find no case against him.
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.