For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,

I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died.

It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

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

The king of Assyria brought foreigners from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.