¹⁵ Thank God for this gift^[a] too wonderful for words!

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¹⁴ But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume.

²⁰ And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ “For this is how God loved the world: He gave^[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁷ Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.^[a] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.^[b]

⁵⁷ But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

⁹ Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever),

¹¹ And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.

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