So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.

and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!

The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

Meanwhile Simon Peter was standing in the courtyard warming himself. They said to him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” Peter denied it: “I am not!”