I write to you, my children, because your sins are forgiven for the sake of Christ.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One.

Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world.

My children, keep yourselves safe from false gods!

My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, 'You cannot go where I am going.'

Then he asked them, "Young men, haven't you caught anything?" "Not a thing," they answered.

I write this to you, not because I want to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as my own dear children.

For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.

My dear children! Once again, just like a mother in childbirth, I feel the same kind of pain for you until Christ's nature is formed in you.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

We write this in order that our joy may be complete.

As I write this letter to you, I hope to come and see you soon.

Tremble with fear and stop sinning; think deeply about this, when you lie in silence on your beds.

If you do warn a good man not to sin and he listens to you and doesn't sin, he will stay alive, and your life will also be spared."

Afterward, Jesus found him in the Temple and said, "Listen, you are well now; so stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."

"No one, sir," she answered. "Well, then," Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again."]

What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase?

Certainly not! We have died to sin---how then can we go on living in it?

What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!

Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways. I declare to your shame that some of you do not know God.

If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin, and do not stay angry all day.

For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.

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

Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy.

You call him Father, when you pray to God, who judges all people by the same standard, according to what each one has done; so then, spend the rest of your lives here on earth in reverence for him.

it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was like a lamb without defect or flaw.

Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had; because whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.

Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us!

For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus,

But Jesus lives on forever, and his work as priest does not pass on to someone else.

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.

"My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own; he does only what he sees his Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does.

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.

so that all will honor the Son in the same way as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

I am telling you the truth: the time is coming---the time has already come---when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will come to life.

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."

(SEE 10:14)

Jesus answered him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

It is through Christ that all of us, Jews and Gentiles, are able to come in the one Spirit into the presence of the Father.

What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.

We use it to give thanks to our Lord and Father and also to curse other people, who are created in the likeness of God.

You know that Christ is righteous; you should know, then, that everyone who does what is right is God's child.

You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him.

Rejoice, rejoice, people of Zion! Shout for joy, you people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you! He comes triumphant and victorious, but humble and riding on a donkey--- on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.

He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips.

For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,