In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

For God So Loved the World

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

For not even his brothers believed in him.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?

As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

And many believed in him there.

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,

Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

Jesus Came to Save the World

And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.

A New Commandment

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.

Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”

When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”

To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”

that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,

Alive in Christ

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Walking in the Light

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

Do Not Love the World

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Children of God

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.