Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man,

To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

whenever He comes, in that Day, to be glorified among His saints and to be marveled among all those having believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

in order that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel our fathers, preserve these things in the thoughts of the heart of Your people forever, and direct their hearts toward You.

And he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to [the] obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But we are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

to which He called you through our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the [latter], he will be a vessel for honor, having been consecrated and useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,