Remember, Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel (Best News Ever), for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the One Who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him!
But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Not only is this so, but we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received reconciliation.