- But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people claimed by God as his own possession,” so that you may proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- I will offer praise to you, O Lord,
with my whole heart;
I will recount all your wondrous deeds. - You created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am wonderfully made;
awesome are your works,
as I know very well. - His divine power has bestowed on us everything that is necessary for life and for devotion through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.
Jesus replied,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
no one can see the kingdom of God
without being born from above.”