The law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

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.

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall 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.