“‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil or unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil.

If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well soaked ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil.

You are the most handsome of all men! You speak in an impressive and fitting manner! For this reason God grants you continual blessings.

This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be glory forever! Amen.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,