³¹ “^(A)He who comes from above is above all; ^(B)the one who is only from the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. ^(C)He who comes from heaven is above all. ³² What He has seen and heard, of this He ^(D)testifies; and ^(E)no one accepts His testimony. ³³ The one who has accepted His testimony ^(F)has certified that God is true. ³⁴ For He whom God ^(G)sent speaks the words of God; ^(H)for He does not give the Spirit ^[a]sparingly. ^35 (I)The Father loves the Son and ^(J)has entrusted all things to His hand. ³⁶ The one who ^(K)believes in the Son has eternal life; but the one who ^(L)does not ^[b]obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

The Christian’s Walk

^17 (A)So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, ^(B)that you are to no longer walk just as the ^[a]Gentiles also walk, in the ^(C)futility of their minds, ¹⁸ being ^(D)darkened in their understanding, ^[b](E)excluded from the life of God because of the ^(F)ignorance that is in them, because of the ^(G)hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ and they, having ^(H)become callous, ^(I)have given themselves up to ^(J)indecent behavior ^[c]for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you did not ^(K)learn Christ in this way, ²¹ if indeed you ^(L)have heard Him and have ^(M)been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, ²² that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to ^(N)rid yourselves of the ^(O)old ^[d]self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the ^(P)lusts of deceit, ²³ and that you are to be ^(Q)renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and to ^(R)put on the ^(S)new ^[e]self, which ^[f](T)in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

²⁷ Whoever does not ^(A)carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. ²⁸ For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? ²⁹ Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who are watching it will begin to ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, ‘This person began to build, and was not able to finish!’