You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

And as Moses lifted up, the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up. That whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.