²¹ So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁸ God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. ⁹ Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

¹² But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

²⁶ For you are all children^[a] of God through faith in Christ Jesus.