If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proved both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Their feet are swift to shed blood:

And the way of peace have they not known:

Now we know that whatsoever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Because it is written, You will be holy; for I am holy.

And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they who are written in the Lamb's book of life.