to tell Aaron and his sons to use the following words in blessing the people of Israel:

May the LORD be kind and gracious to you;

And the LORD said, "If they pronounce my name as a blessing upon the people of Israel, I will bless them."

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another.

God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And so I write to all of you in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his own people: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

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The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

From John to the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace be yours from God, who is, who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits in front of his throne,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.

neither the world above nor the world below---there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.

May God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give to all Christians peace and love with faith.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

and keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.

Jesus answered, "If you only knew what God gives and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would ask him, and he would give you life-giving water."

but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life."

whoever believes in me should drink. As the scripture says, 'Streams of life-giving water will pour out from his side.' "

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.

But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to---if, in fact, God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.

God's Spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that we are God's children.

Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

It is through Christ that all of us, Jews and Gentiles, are able to come in the one Spirit into the presence of the Father.

In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.

for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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.

Do not bring us to hard testing, but keep us safe from the Evil One.'

and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."

And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

To the only God, who alone is all-wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever! Amen.

When you give thanks to God in spirit only, how can ordinary people taking part in the meeting say "Amen" to your prayer of thanksgiving? They have no way of knowing what you are saying.