I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Jesus wept

To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.