And he said: "Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David, and with His hand has fulfilled [it,] saying,

Therefore David blessed the LORD before all the assembly; and David said: "Blessed are You, LORD God of Israel, our Father, forever and ever.

Both riches and honor [come] from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand [is] power and might; In Your hand [it is] to make great And to give strength to all.

Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things!

And blessed [be] His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled [with] His glory. Amen and Amen.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

For You, Lord, [are] good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

But You, O Lord, [are] a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

So he prayed to the LORD, and said, "Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You [are] a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.

But the free gift [is] not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.

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

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

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

that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

not of works, lest anyone should boast.

And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

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

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

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 one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

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

"Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

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

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith.

We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.

and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these [is] love.

if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

that by two immutable things, in which it [is] impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before [us.]

This [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence [behind] the veil,

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

There is also an antitype which now saves us -- baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Your dead shall live; [Together with] my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew [is like] the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, [and] has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

and raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.