Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!”
“Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven.
But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven.
And you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end—this one will be saved.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand.
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself.”
Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Therefore, because we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For the compensation due sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
that if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
it is not from works, so that no one can boast.
Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but suffer along with me for the gospel, according to the power of God,
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you
who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,
The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.