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

And you know that He was manifested in order to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and having salvation, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the foal of an ass.

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

Then he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice out of His mouth.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, 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 uprightness 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, beside Your companions.

to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, meaning king of peace,

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

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

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who produces righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not produce righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

You will know them from their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

A good tree is not able to produce evil fruit, nor is a corrupt tree able to produce excellent fruit.

But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

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

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and it is not his nature to sin, because he has been born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born from God, and everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who is begotten from 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, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.

Of His own purpose He brought us forth 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 abundant 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 incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever,

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