⁵ The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.^{(A) 6} He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.^{(B) 7} Then go quickly and tell his disciples,^(C) ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”^(D)

¹⁶ For God loved^(A) the world in this way:^[a] He gave^[b] his one and only^(B) Son,^(C) so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.^(D)

The Righteous Will Live by Faith

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel,^[a](A) because it is the power of God for salvation^(B) to everyone who believes, first to the Jew,^(C) and also to the Greek.^{(D) 17} For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith,^[b](E) just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.^[c][d](F)

² I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.^(A)

¹⁸ Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.^{(A) 19} That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world^(B) to himself,^(C) not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors^(D) for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf,^(E) “Be reconciled to God.” ²¹ He made the one who did not know sin^(F) to be sin^[a] for us,^(G) so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.