1 John 5:13

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.