John 1:7

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

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

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.

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

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

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

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

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.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

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.”

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

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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.

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.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

“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.’

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

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

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

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

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

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.’

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

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.

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

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

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

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

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.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

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

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.