So now you and the council<n id="1" /> request the commanding officer<n id="2" /> to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine<n id="3" /> his case<n id="4" /> by conducting a more thorough inquiry.<n id="5" /> We are ready to kill him<n id="6" /> before he comes near this place.&#8221;<n id="7" />p>

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord&#8217;s.

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are<n id="1" /> the temple of the living God, just as God said, &#8220;<b><i>I will live in themi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>and will walk among themb>, <b>and I will be their Godb>, <b>and they will be my peopleb>i>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

But Christ<n id="1" /> is faithful as a son over God&#8217;s<n id="2" /> house. We are of his house,<n id="3" /> if in fact we hold firmly<n id="4" /> to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that<n id="1" /> we should be called God&#8217;s children &#8211; and indeed<n id="2" /> we are!<n id="3" /> For this reason<n id="4" /> the world does not know us: because it did not know him.<n id="5" />

Dear friends, we are God&#8217;s children now, and what we will be<n id="1" /> has not yet been revealed. We<n id="2" /> know that<n id="3" /> whenever<n id="4" /> it<n id="5" /> is revealed<n id="6" /> we will be like him, because<n id="7" /> we will see him just as he is.<n id="8" />

By this<n id="1" /> love is perfected with<n id="2" /> us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus<n id="3" /> is, so also are we in this world.

Now the day began to draw to a close,<n id="1" /> so<n id="2" /> the twelve came and said to Jesus,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging<n id="4" /> and food, because we are in an isolated place.&#8221;<n id="5" />

&#8220;Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures<n id="1" /> just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn<n id="2" /> from these worthless<n id="3" /> things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth,<n id="4" /> the sea, and everything that is in them.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but<n id="1" /> whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this<n id="2" /> we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.<n id="3" />p>

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know<n id="1" /> him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one<n id="2" /> is the true God and eternal life.