You, however, are not in ¹  the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, ¹  and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he ²  will be blessed in what he does. ³ 

By this ¹  the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian ²  – is not of God.

Everyone ¹  who goes on ahead and does not remain ²  in the teaching of Christ ³  does not have God. ⁴  The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. ¹  The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God. ² 

When the Pharisees ¹  saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” ² 

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹  my brother and sister and mother.”

he does not need to honor his father.’ ¹  You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

“Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! ¹  Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

I tell you the truth, ¹  whoever does not receive ²  the kingdom of God like a child ³  will never ⁴  enter it.”

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

For what does it benefit a person ¹  if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

I tell you the truth, ¹  whoever does not receive ²  the kingdom of God like a child ³  will never ⁴  enter it.”

For the one whom God has sent ¹  speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. ² 

They asked the parents, ¹  “Is this your son, whom you say ²  was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

Every person ¹  who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed ²  from the people.’ ³ 

Yet the Most High ¹  does not live in houses made by human hands, ²  as the prophet says,

Then Peter started speaking: ¹  “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people, ² 

but in every nation ¹  the person who fears him ²  and does what is right ³  is welcomed before him.