“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.”

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, 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.

And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

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.

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.

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?

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.

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

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

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”

And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

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

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

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

Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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

While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.