Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
I am writing to you who are God’s children because your sins have been forgiven through Jesus.
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. The reason the world doesn’t recognize who we are is that they didn’t recognize him. Beloved, we are God’s children right now; however, it is not yet apparent what we will become. But we do know that when it is finally made visible, we will be just like him, for we will see him as he truly is.
This is love: He loved us long before we loved him. It was his love, not ours. He proved it by sending his Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins.
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence.
Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.