Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

No, I will not leave you as orphans - I will come to you.

15 so you have not received a Spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 16 for his Spirit joins with our Spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. 17 and since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”

And “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord almighty.”

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed.

For we are not unaware of his schemes. These are the things that the accuser, the Father of lies would like to put on us.

All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

Whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.

Let us draw near to God with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

If anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense – Jesus Christ, the righteous one.” he is our counselor, our attorney.

Do not be afraid, you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated; you will forget the shame of your youth.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing Spirit, to sustain

If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.

They looked to him and were radiant; their faces were not ashamed.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remember your sins no more.

God loves you dearly, and he has called you to be his very own people.

I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘you are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.

Though my Father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me’, declares the Lord.

God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

…to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he made us accepted in the beloved.