- In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words.
- And thus we can have confidence in him
that if we ask anything
that is in accordance with his will,
he hears us. - By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation.
- I then heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
- Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- This is what love is:
not that we have loved God,
but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. - Our temporary light afflictions are preparing for us an incomparable weight of eternal glory.
- However, God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit explores everything, even the depths of God.
- I consider that the sufferings we presently endure are not worth comparing with the glory to be revealed in us.
- It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, stand firm and refuse to submit again to the yoke of slavery.
- Not because of any righteous deeds on our part
but because of his mercy,
he saved us through the bath of rebirth
and renewal by the Holy Spirit. - This is how we know what love is:
he laid down his life for us,
and we in turn must be prepared
to lay down our lives for our brethren. - You will again show us compassion
and wash away our guilt;
you will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea. - God’s love was revealed to us in this way:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life through him. - Let us remain firm in the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.
- Who then can separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
- Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace when we are in need of help.
- Beloved,
let us love one another,
because love is from God.
Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. - We have come to know
and to believe in
the love that God has for us.
God is love,
and whoever abides in love
abides in God,
and God in him. - Until a spirit from on high
is poured out upon us,
and the wilderness becomes an orchard
and the fruitful field becomes a forest. - And the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us.
And we saw his glory,
the glory as of the Father’s only Son,
full of grace and truth. - This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us exult and rejoice in it. - Blessed be the God,
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens. - Let us then make every effort to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall by following that example of refusing to believe.
- Indeed, the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
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