1 John 3:6

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.