the spirit of rejection

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.

³He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him.

¹¹He went to his own, and his own did not accept him.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.

⁴And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,

¹⁸If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.

¹⁴For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,

¹⁵Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.

³¹So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

¹⁶Whoever hears you, hears me. And whoever despises you, despises me. And whoever despises me, despises him who sent me.”

⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

¹⁵And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: “Abba, Father!”

⁹And he said to me: “My grace is sufficient for you. For virtue is perfected in weakness.” And so, willingly shall I glory in my weaknesses, so that the virtue of Christ may live within me.

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.

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

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;

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.