John 6:46

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

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

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.

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.

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

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

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.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone. On the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

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.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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?

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.