¹⁴ Greet each other with a kiss of love.

Peace be with all of you who are in Christ.

¹⁶ Greet each other with a sacred kiss. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings.

²³ Peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters,^[a] and may God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with faithfulness.

Life in the Spirit

8 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

²⁰ All the brothers and sisters here send greetings to you. Greet each other with a sacred kiss.

⁷ I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people.

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

¹⁷ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

³⁰ God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.

²⁶ Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. “Peace be with you,” he said.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

¹⁹ That Sunday evening^[a] the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! “Peace be with you,” he said.