And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe, as displayed in the exercise of his immense strength.

I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.