- We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
- Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- So we say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?” - But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. - Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts. - We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
- And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.
- The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
- And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted. - This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Bible verse of the day
Who is a God like you,who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.