See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in Our image, in Our likeness..." So God created mankind in His Own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand for us to do.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

And we all, with unveiled faces, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.