¹⁶ For God so loved^(A) the world that he gave^(B) his one and only Son,^(C) that whoever believes^(D) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^(E)

¹¹ Dear friends,^(A) since God so loved us,^(B) we also ought to love one another.^(C)

¹⁰ for Demas,^(A) because he loved this world,^(B) has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.^(C) Crescens has gone to Galatia,^(D) and Titus^(E) to Dalmatia.

¹⁸ I am the Living One; I was dead,^(A) and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!^(B) And I hold the keys of death and Hades.^(C)

²¹ The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”

¹⁹ Instead, they had some points of dispute^(A) with him about their own religion^(B) and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.

⁴⁷ Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”

⁴¹ I will rejoice^(A) in doing them good^(B) and will assuredly plant^(C) them in this land with all my heart and soul.^(D)