^11 (A)For there is born to you this day in the city of David ^(B)a Savior, ^(C)who is Christ the Lord.

^21 (A)And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name ^[a]Jesus, ^(B)for He will save His people from their sins.”

³⁶ “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

⁴ But when ^(A)the kindness and the love of ^(B)God our Savior toward man appeared, ^5 (C)not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through ^(D)the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ^6 (E)whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that having been justified by His grace ^(F)we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered and said, ^(A)“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Obedience by Faith

5 Whoever believes that ^(A)Jesus is the Christ is ^(B)born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

⁴² Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for ^(A)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed ^[a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

⁴³ But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?