¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,^(A) the new creation^(B) has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!^(C)

¹⁵ Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything;^(A) what counts is the new creation.^(B)

²³ For you have been born again,^(A) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,^(B) through the living and enduring word of God.^(C)

³ This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me.

⁷ The king summoned the enchanters,^(A) astrologers^[a](B) and diviners.^(C) Then he said to these wise^(D) men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck,^(E) and he will be made the third^(F) highest ruler in the kingdom.”^(G)

³⁷ Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household?^(A) Put it here in front of your relatives^(B) and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.^(C)

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

²⁷ No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me^(A) and have believed that I came from God.^(B)