For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say [rightly] that I am a king. For this [reason] I have been born, and for this [reason] I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

I charge you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, 'These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;

They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them; but He that has mercy on them shall comfort [them], and by fountains of waters shall He lead them.

But I have been made King by Him on Zion His holy mountain,

But they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.

And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, [even] My servant David, and he shall be their shepherd;

and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem, until Christ the Prince, [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness in the latter days.

And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.

And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed His flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come forth a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel.'"

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

And if anyone serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant shall be also. If anyone serve Me, him My Father will honor.

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say correctly, for so I am.

in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But just as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

For it was fitting for Him, on account of whom [are] all things and through whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings.

And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,