"I have made you known to those you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me. They have obeyed your word,

I am not seeking honor for myself. But there is one who is seeking it and who judges in my favor.

I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

I will tell my people what you have done; I will praise you in their assembly:

He says to God, "I will tell my people what you have done; I will praise you in their meeting."

Jesus answered him, "Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son!

God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.

The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.

But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,

that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.

for we are members of his body.)

There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,

I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.

Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.

Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.

But if Christ lives in you, the Spirit is life for you because you have been put right with God, even though your bodies are going to die because of sin.

But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom. By him we are put right with God; we become God's holy people and are set free.

Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,

God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.

and you have been given full life in union with him. He is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.

As a result, there is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free, but Christ is all, Christ is in all.

Those who obey God's commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.

We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.

And we have seen and tell others that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.