For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

He will speak in my name, and I will punish anyone who refuses to obey him.

and bow down to him; or else his anger will be quickly aroused, and you will suddenly die. Happy are all who go to him for protection.

While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased---listen to him!"

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.

They answered, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved---you and your family."

He said, 'The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see his righteous Servant, and to hear him speaking with his own voice.

And now, why wait any longer? Get up and be baptized and have your sins washed away by praying to him.'

A person who works is paid wages, but they are not regarded as a gift; they are something that has been earned.

But those who depend on faith, not on deeds, and who believe in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is this faith that God takes into account in order to put them right with himself.

So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;

while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,

What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.