By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
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