just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

For I testify, they gave according to their means and beyond their means. They did so voluntarily,

for we are members of his body.

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son

For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

Others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets from the past.”

Then they asked him, “Why do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

while others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had risen.

except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.