So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.

"I am a Hebrew," Jonah answered. "I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made land and sea."

Don't we all have the same father? Didn't the same God create us all? Then why do we break our promises to one another, and why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors?

The Father and I are one."

Jesus answered, "For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you," Jesus said to his disciples, "do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

For this reason I fall on my knees before the Father,

there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.

You were chosen according to the purpose of God the Father and were made a holy people by his Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be purified by his blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope,

as someone has said, 'In him we live and move and exist.' It is as some of your poets have said, 'We too are his children.'

For all things were created by him, and all things exist through him and for him. To God be the glory forever! Amen.

there is one God and Father of all people, who is Lord of all, works through all, and is in all.

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.

I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

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.

Someone else will say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.

I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say "A curse on Jesus!" and no one can confess "Jesus is Lord," without being guided by the Holy Spirit.

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

Jesus drew near and said to them, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed.

Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge,

"I am telling you the truth: those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life.

Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life.

Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice

"You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am.

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.

"All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!"

God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.

which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.

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

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

For this reason God raised him to the highest place above and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.

and all will openly proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

For through him God created everything in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen things, including spiritual powers, lords, rulers, and authorities. God created the whole universe through him and for him.

Christ existed before all things, and in union with him all things have their proper place.

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

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.

I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority over death and the world of the dead.

Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him.

The gospel keeps bringing blessings and is spreading throughout the world, just as it has among you ever since the day you first heard about the grace of God and came to know it as it really is.

but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.

He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power.