Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an everlasting hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He even gave up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
You will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
In accordance with His good pleasure which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, He planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, both things in heaven and things on the earth.
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.
And I tell you, You are Peter, and on this rock I will build M y church, and the gates of Hades willnot overpower it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth must be what is already bound
in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains in Him.
This is the gospel (Best News Ever) that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.
In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed heir of allthings, and through Whom He made the universe.