¹⁴ He will bring you a message^(A) through which you and all your household^(B) will be saved.’

¹⁵ When she and the members of her household^(A) were baptized,^(B) she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

²² The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man,^(A) who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”^(B)

³¹ They replied, “Believe^(A) in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved^(B)—you and your household.”^{(C) 32} Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. ³³ At that hour of the night^(D) the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.^{(E) 34} The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he^(F) was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.

⁹ We accept human testimony,^(A) but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God,^(B) which he has given about his Son. ¹⁰ Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony.^(C) Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar,^(D) because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life,^(E) and this life is in his Son.^{(F) 12} Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.^(G)

Concluding Affirmations

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God^(H) so that you may know that you have eternal life.^(I)