You have been preserved, you are precious in His eyes, and He is delight in you, because you are a new creation-
(2 Corinthians 5:1) For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in Heaven.
(2 Corinthians 5:2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling place out of Heaven,
(2 Corinthians 5:3) if indeed, being clothed, we shall not be found naked.
(2 Corinthians 5:4) For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
(2 Corinthians 5:5) Now He who has fashioned us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the earnest of the Spirit.
(2 Corinthians 5:6) So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
(2 Corinthians 5:7) For we walk by faith, not by sight.
(2 Corinthians 5:8) We are confident, yes, preferring rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
(2 Corinthians 5:9) Therefore we strive, whether at home or away, to be well pleasing to Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:10) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
(2 Corinthians 5:11) Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are well known to God, and I also hope are well known in your consciences.
(2 Corinthians 5:12) For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to rejoice on our behalf, that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
(2 Corinthians 5:13) For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
(2 Corinthians 5:14) For the love of Christ holds us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;
(2 Corinthians 5:15) and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again.
(2 Corinthians 5:16) Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.
(2 Corinthians 5:17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:18) Now all things are from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
(2 Corinthians 5:19) that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the Word of reconciliation.
(2 Corinthians 5:20) Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ’s behalf, Be reconciled to God.
(2 Corinthians 5:21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(Matthew 3:1) In those days John the Immerser came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
(Matthew 3:2) and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near!
(Matthew 3:3) For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.
(Matthew 3:4) And John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather waistband around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
(Matthew 3:5) Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him
(Matthew 3:6) and were immersed by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
(Matthew 3:7) But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
(Matthew 3:8) Therefore bring forth fruits worthy of repentance,
(Matthew 3:9) and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
(Matthew 3:10) And now already the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore any tree which does not bear good fruit is cut off and thrown into the fire.
(Matthew 3:11) I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire;
(Matthew 3:12) whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the granary; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
(Matthew 3:13) Then Jesus comes from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be immersed by him.
(Matthew 3:14) But John tried to prevent Him, saying, I need to be immersed by You, and do You come to me?
(Matthew 3:15) But Jesus answered and said to him, Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allowed Him.
(Matthew 3:16) And when He had been immersed, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.
(Matthew 3:17) And behold a voice out of heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
As the Church!
In the name of Jesus we are boldly declaring:
We are His beloved sons; in us He is well pleased…
(Ephesians 1:1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:
(Ephesians 1:2) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,
(Ephesians 1:4) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love,
(Ephesians 1:5) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
(Ephesians 1:6) to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
(Ephesians 1:7) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of His grace
(Ephesians 1:8) which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and understanding,
(Ephesians 1:9) having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,
(Ephesians 1:10) that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might sum up in one all things in Christ, both which are in Heaven and which are on earth; in Him.
(Ephesians 1:11) In Him also we have been assigned to an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
(Ephesians 1:12) that we who previously trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesians 1:13) In whom also, after you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
(Ephesians 1:14) who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
(Ephesians 1:15) Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
(Ephesians 1:16) do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:
(Ephesians 1:17) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full true knowledge of Him,
(Ephesians 1:18) the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
(Ephesians 1:19) and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us, who believe according to the working of His mighty power
(Ephesians 1:20) which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,
(Ephesians 1:21) far above all rule and authority and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
(Ephesians 1:22) And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
(Ephesians 1:23) which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all things in all.
(Ephesians 2:1) And you being dead in trespasses and sins,
(Ephesians 2:2) in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
(Ephesians 2:3) among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;
(Ephesians 2:4) but God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
(Ephesians 2:5) even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
(Ephesians 2:6) and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
(Ephesians 2:7) that in the ages to come He might display the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
(Ephesians 2:8) For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
(Ephesians 2:9) not of works, that no one should boast.
(Ephesians 2:10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:11) Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;
(Ephesians 2:12) that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
(Ephesians 2:13) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.
(Ephesians 2:14) For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
(Ephesians 2:15) having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
(Ephesians 2:16) and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
(Ephesians 2:17) And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
(Ephesians 2:18) For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
(Ephesians 2:19) Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
(Ephesians 2:20) having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone,
(Ephesians 2:21) in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
(Ephesians 2:22) in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
(Ephesians 3:1) For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles;
(Ephesians 3:2) if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
(Ephesians 3:3) how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,
(Ephesians 3:4) by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
(Ephesians 3:5) which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
(Ephesians 3:6) that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and joint partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,
(Ephesians 3:7) of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.
(Ephesians 3:8) To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
(Ephesians 3:9) and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
(Ephesians 3:10) to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies,
(Ephesians 3:11) according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,
(Ephesians 3:12) in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.
(Ephesians 3:13) Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my afflictions on your behalf, which is your glory.
(Ephesians 3:14) For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
(Ephesians 3:15) of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,
(Ephesians 3:16) that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
(Ephesians 3:17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
(Ephesians 3:18) may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height;
(Ephesians 3:19) to know the surpassing knowledge and love of Christ; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
(Ephesians 3:20) Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
(Ephesians 3:21) to Him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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