My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if someone should sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

And you know that He appeared that He might take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King is coming to you, righteous, and [your] Savior; He is meek and riding on a donkey, a young foal of a donkey.

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice from His mouth.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

But to the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your companions."

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all, first being interpreted "king of righteousness," and then also king of Salem, which is "king of peace,"

For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

Little children, let no one deceive you. The [one] who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall you be able to do good, having learned [to do] evil.

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grape clusters from thorns, or figs from thistles?

A good tree cannot produce evil fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit.

But in every nation, he that fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as [His] own possession, zealous for good works.

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God.

Everyone that believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone that loves Him that begot also loves him that is begotten of Him.

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

Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.