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16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.(A)

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God’s Covenant with Abram

15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”(A) But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”[a](B) And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”(C) But the word of the Lord came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.”(D) He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”(E) And he believed the Lord, and the Lord[b] reckoned it to him as righteousness.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 15.6 Heb he

Shining as Lights in the World

12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A) 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmuring and arguing,(B) 15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,(C) 16 holding forth the word of life so that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.(D)

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