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

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.