Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.

For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.

But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.

Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.”

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.

Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.”

If you love me, keep my commands.

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.

Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.”

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

He must become greater; I must become less.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

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.

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.