³⁶ The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son^[a] will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.^(A)

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¹² So then, brothers and sisters, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh, ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,^(A) you will live. ¹⁴ For all those led by God’s Spirit^(B) are God’s sons.^{(C) 15} For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear.^(D) Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption,^(E) by whom we cry out, “Abba,^[a] Father!” ^{(F) 16} The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit^(G) that we are God’s children, ¹⁷ and if children, also heirs^(H)—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with him^(I) so that we may also be glorified with him.

3 See what great love^[a] the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.