The Lord is alive!\par I praise my Rock, {\cf2\super [107]} \par God saves me.\par He is great!\par
John 6:57 - Easy To Read Version The Father sent me. The Father lives, and I live because of the Father. So the person that eats me will live because of me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Just as the living Father sent Me and I live by (through, because of) the Father, even so whoever continues to feed on Me [whoever takes Me for his food and is nourished by Me] shall [in his turn] live through and because of Me. American Standard Version (1901) As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. Common English Bible As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me lives because of me. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. |
The Lord is alive!\par I praise my Rock, {\cf2\super [107]} \par God saves me.\par He is great!\par
But the Lord is the only true God.\par He is the only God who is truly alive.\par He is the King that rules forever.\par The earth shakes when God is angry.\par The people of the nations can’t stop his anger.\par
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, {\cf2\super [229]} the Son of the living God.”
In a very short time the people in the world will not see me any more. But you will see me. You will live because I live.
Jesus answered, “I am the way. I am the truth and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.
Father, I pray that all people that believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that these people can also be one in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
God sent his Son into the world. God did not send his Son to judge the world guilty. God sent his Son so that the world could be saved through his Son.
Life comes from the Father (God) himself. So the Father has also allowed the Son (Jesus) to give life.
Jesus answered, “The work God wants you to do is this: to believe in the One that God sent.”
I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do. I did not come to do what I want to do.
In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again.
Like the Scriptures {\cf2\super [116]} say, “The first man (Adam) became a living thing. {\cf2\super [117]} ” {\cf2\super [118]} But the last Adam (Christ) became a spirit that gives life.
It is true that Christ was weak when he was killed on the cross. But he lives now by God’s power. And it is true that we are weak in Christ. But for you we will be alive in Christ by God’s power.
So the life that I live now is not really me—it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God (Jesus). Jesus is the One who loved me. He gave himself to save me.
People everywhere tell about the good way you accepted us when we were there with you. Those people tell about how you stopped worshiping idols {\cf2\super [3]} and changed to serve the living and true God.
So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.
This is how God showed his love to us: God sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.