We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body. It didn’t matter whether we were Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free people. We were all given the same Spirit to drink.
If a person believes in Christ Jesus, it doesn’t matter whether they’re circumcised or not. The only thing that matters is faith expressing itself through love.
I will be in them, just as you are in me, so that they may be brought together perfectly as one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.
I’ve been crucified with Christ. I’m not the one living anymore. Christ is living in me. I do continue to live in this body, but I do that by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
When the people of the island saw the snake hanging on his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. He escaped from the sea, but justice is punishing him this way instead.”
If anyone leaves the teaching of Christ behind and doesn’t remain in it, that person doesn’t have God. But whoever remains in the teaching about Christ has both the Father and the Son.
We also know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding so that we can know the God who is true. And we are in the true God by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Christ himself is our peace. He has brought Jews and Gentiles together into one group of people. He has destroyed the hatred that was like a wall between us.
Through his body on the cross, Christ set aside the law with all its commands and rules. He did this so he could create one new people out of both Jews and Gentiles. He wanted to make peace between them