Pack C

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – 9not by works, so that no one can boast.

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens thedoor, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”