In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle ¹  than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

Jesus replied, ¹  “I tell you the solemn truth, ²  unless a person is born from above, ³  he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ⁴ 

Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  unless a person is born of water and spirit, ²  he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

This ¹  is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person ²  may eat from it and not die.

The person who does not love me does not obey ¹  my words. And the word ²  you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

And the person who saw it ¹  has testified (and his testimony is true, and he ²  knows that he is telling the truth), ³  so that you also may believe.

When ¹  he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, ²  Moses ³  came to his defense ⁴  and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.

So Peter went down ¹  to the men and said, “Here I am, ²  the person you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. ¹  Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.

If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, he should acknowledge that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; ¹  the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Therefore we do not despair, ¹  but even if our physical body ²  is wearing away, our inner person ³  is being renewed day by day.

Let such a person consider this: What we say ¹  by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

was caught up into paradise ¹  and heard things too sacred to be put into words, ²  things that a person ³  is not permitted to speak.