THere is one body and one Spirit- just as there is also one hope to the calling you received- One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, pervading all and living in us all.
May God’s favor and peace be multipled to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
It was God in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not holding against men their trespasses, and committing to us the message of reconciliation and restoration to favor.
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Praise the Lord, ll you nations; extol Him, ll you peoples. For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord.
Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
But because of His great love for us, God, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions- it is by grace you have been saved.
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love.
This is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.