Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

"Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown

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