Then the LORD told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.

You are our God! Punish them, for we are helpless in the face of this large army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but we look to you for help."

All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.

You answer us by giving us victory, and you do wonderful things to save us. People all over the world and across the distant seas trust in you.

But I will watch for the LORD; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven."

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day."

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

Come and present your case in court; let the defendants consult one another. Who predicted long ago what would happen? Was it not I, the LORD, the God who saves his people? There is no other god.

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

The Father and I are one."

as we wait for the blessed Day we hope for, when the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ will appear.

From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ--- To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as precious as ours: