the deity of jesus

⁹For in him, all the fullness of the Divine Nature dwells bodily.

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

²⁸Thomas responded and said to him, “My Lord and my God.”

³⁸But if I do them, even if you are not willing to believe in me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.”

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

⁸But about the Son: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of equity.

⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. ⁷Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. ⁸He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross.

⁶For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given. And leadership is placed upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called: wonderful Counselor, mighty God, father of the future age, Prince of Peace.

⁹And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

¹³looking forward to the blessed hope and the advent of the glory of the great God and of our Savior Jesus Christ.

¹²Whoever has the Son, has Life. Whoever does not have the Son, does not have Life.

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

¹⁴And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen.” And the twenty-four elders fell down on their faces, and they adored the One who lives forever and ever.

¹For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across the sea. ²And in Moses, they all were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea. ³And they all ate of the same spiritual food. ⁴And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ.

¹Simon Peter, servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted an equal faith with us in the justice of our God and in our Savior Jesus Christ.

²²All ends of the earth, be converted to me, and you will be saved. For I am God, and there is no other. ²³I have sworn by myself. The Word of justice will proceed from my mouth, and it will not turn back.

¹⁰So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ¹¹For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”