There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
because we are members of his body.
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
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