God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:24 ERV
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God is spirit. So the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:24 ERV
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Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But anyone who drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside them. It will bring them eternal life.”
John 4:13-14 ERV
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Some Jews said to Jesus, “Show us a miracle as a sign from God. Prove that you have the right to do these things.”
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple and I will build it again in three days.” They answered, “People worked 46 years to build this Temple! Do you really believe you can build it again in three days?”
But the temple Jesus meant was his own body. After he was raised from death, his followers remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scriptures, and they believed the words Jesus said.
John 2:18-22 ERV
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It was almost time for the Jewish Passover, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. There in the Temple area he saw men selling cattle, sheep, and doves. He saw others sitting at tables, exchanging and trading people’s money.
Jesus made a whip with some pieces of rope. Then he forced all these men and the sheep and cattle to leave the Temple area. He turned over the tables of the money traders and scattered their money.
Then he said to those who were selling pigeons, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a place for buying and selling!”
John 2:13-16 ERV
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At the wedding there was not enough wine, so Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
Jesus answered, “Dear woman, why are you telling me this? It is not yet time for me to begin my work.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do what he tells you.” Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So they filled them to the top. Then he said to them, “Now dip out some water and take it to the man in charge of the feast.”
So they did what he said. Then the man in charge tasted it, but the water had become wine. He did not know where the wine had come from, but the servants who brought the water knew.
He called the bridegroom and said to him, “People always serve the best wine first. Later, when the guests are drunk, they serve the cheaper wine. But you have saved the best wine until now.”
This was the first of all the miraculous signs Jesus did. He did it in the town of Cana in Galilee. By this he showed his divine greatness, and his followers believed in him.
John 2:3-5, 7-11 ERV
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The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid. I have some very good news for you—news that will make everyone happy.
Today your Savior was born in David’s town. He is the Messiah, the Lord. This is how you will know him: You will find a baby wrapped in pieces of cloth and lying in a feeding box.”
Then a huge army of angels from heaven joined the first angel, and they were all praising God, saying, “Praise God in heaven, and on earth let there be peace to the people who please him.”
Luke 2:10-14 ERV
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The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, because God is very pleased with you.
Listen! You will become pregnant and have a baby boy. You will name him Jesus. He will be great.
People will call him the Son of the Most High God, and the Lord God will make him king like his ancestor David.
He will rule over the people of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Luke 1:30-33 ERV
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God sent him, and he tells people what God says. God gives him the Spirit fully.
The Father loves the Son and has given him power over everything.
John 3:34-35 ERV
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Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. But those who do not obey the Son will never have that life. They cannot get away from God’s anger.”
John 3:36 ERV
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He must become more and more important, and I must become less important.
John 3:30 ERV
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Everyone who does evil hates the light. They will not come to the light, because the light will show all the bad things they have done.
But anyone who follows the true way comes to the light. Then the light will show that whatever they have done was done through God.
John 3:20-21 ERV
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God sent his Son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.
People who believe in God’s Son are not judged guilty. But people who do not believe are already judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son.
They are judged by this fact: The light has come into the world. But they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things.
John 3:17-19 ERV
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“Moses lifted up the snake in the desert. It is the same with the Son of Man. He must be lifted up too. Then everyone who believes in him can have eternal life.”
Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.
John 3:14-16 ERV
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Jesus answered, “I assure you, everyone must be born again. Anyone who is not born again cannot be in God’s kingdom.”
Jesus answered, “Believe me when I say that everyone must be born from water and the Spirit. Anyone who is not born from water and the Spirit cannot enter God’s kingdom.
The only life people get from their human parents is physical. But the new life that the Spirit gives a person is spiritual.
John 3:3, 5-6 ERV
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Then John said this for everyone to hear: “I also did not know who the Messiah was.
But the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and rest on a man. He is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
I have seen this happen. I saw the Spirit come down from heaven like a dove and rest on this man. So this is what I tell people: ‘He is the Son of God.’”
John 1:32-34 ERV
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The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God. He takes away the sins of the world!
John 1:29 ERV
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No one has ever seen God. The only Son is the one who has shown us what God is like. He is himself God and is very close to the Father.
John 1:18 ERV
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“Yes, the Word was full of grace and truth, and from him we all received one blessing after another. That is, the law was given to us through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
John 1:16-17 ERV
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He came to the world that was his own. And his own people did not accept him.
But some people did accept him. They believed in him, and he gave them the right to become children of God.
They became God’s children, but not in the way babies are usually born. It was not because of any human desire or plan. They were born from God himself.
John 1:11-13 ERV
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Praise God! He is the one who can make you strong in faith. He can use the Good News that I teach to make you strong. It is the message about Jesus Christ that I tell people. That message is the secret truth that was hidden for ages and ages but has been made known.
Romans 16:25 ERV
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The God who brings peace will soon defeat Satan and give you power over him. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Romans 16:20 ERV
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I serve like a priest whose duty it is to tell God’s Good News. He gave me this work so that you non-Jewish people could be an offering that he will accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:16 ERV
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Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us. Those things were written so that we could have hope. That hope comes from the patience and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.
Romans 15:4 ERV
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I pray that the God who gives hope will fill you with much joy and peace as you trust in him. Then you will have more and more hope, and it will flow out of you by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 ERV
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Christ accepted you, so you should accept each other. This will bring honor to God.
Romans 15:7 ERV
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It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else that hurts the faith of your brother or sister.
You should keep your beliefs about these things a secret between yourself and God.
It is a blessing to be able to do what you think is right without feeling guilty.
But anyone who eats something without being sure it is right is doing wrong. That is because they did not believe it was right.
And if you do anything that you believe is not right, it is sin.
Romans 14:21-23 ERV
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I know that there is no food that is wrong to eat. The Lord Jesus is the one who convinced me of that. But if someone believes that something is wrong, then it is wrong for that person.
If you hurt the faith of your brother or sister because of something you eat, you are not really following the way of love. Don’t destroy anyone’s faith by eating something they think is wrong. Christ died for them.
Romans 14:14-15 ERV
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So why do you judge your brother or sister in Christ? Or why do you think that you are better than they are? We will all stand before God, and he will judge us all.
So each of us will have to explain to God about the things we do.
Romans 14:10, 12 ERV
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