"He that receives you receives Me, and he that receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

But as many as received Him, He gave them the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name;

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Most assuredly I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."

But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of the assurance firm until the end,

And this is the testimony: that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

He that has the Son has life; he that does not have the Son of God does not have life.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Look to yourselves, lest we should lose those things for which we worked, but that we should receive a full reward.

Everyone who transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, this [one] has both the Father and the Son.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you about our common salvation, it became necessary to write to you exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

And whatever you may do in word or deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

And now, O house of Jacob, come, [and] let us walk in the light of the Lord.

And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us His way, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

(for we walk by faith, not by sight),

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

Only conduct yourselves worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Finally then, brothers, we request of you and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.

He who claims to abide in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.