^7 (A)This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with ^(B)a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸ And the Lord said to me, ^(C)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

¹⁷ For ^(A)the law was given through Moses; ^(B)grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(A)the way, and ^(B)the truth, and ^(C)the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

¹⁵ Rather, ^(A)speaking the truth in love, we are to ^(B)grow up in every way into him who is ^(C)the head, into Christ, ^16 (D)from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, ^(E)when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.