You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.

I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children living according to the truth, just as the Father commanded us.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.