No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

“Because of your little faith,” he told them. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.

Indeed, God is my salvation; I will trust him and not be afraid, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.