²⁴ Enoch walked faithfully with God;^(A) then he was no more, because God took him away.^(B)

Noah and the Flood

⁹ This is the account^(A) of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless^(B) among the people of his time,^(C) and he walked faithfully with God.^(D)

⁴⁵ Then I will dwell^(A) among the Israelites and be their God.^(B)

¹⁴ The Lord replied, “My Presence^(A) will go with you, and I will give you rest.”^(B)

¹⁵ Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence^(C) does not go with us, do not send us up from here. ¹⁶ How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us?^(D) What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”^(E)

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked,^(F) because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”^(G)

¹⁰ “Shout^(A) and be glad, Daughter Zion.^(B) For I am coming,^(C) and I will live among you,”^(D) declares the Lord.^(E)

³⁷ “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”^(A)

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(A) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^(B)

¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?^(A) For we are the temple^(B) of the living God.^(C) As God has said:

Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness

⁵ This is the message we have heard^(A) from him and declare to you: God is light;^(B) in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness,^(C) we lie and do not live out the truth.^{(D) 7} But if we walk in the light,^(E) as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all^[a] sin.^(F)