⁵ But the angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified.^{(A) 6} He is not here! For He has been resurrected, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.^{(B) 7} Then go quickly and tell His disciples,^(C) ‘He has been raised from the dead. In fact, He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see Him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”^(D)

¹⁶ “For God loved^(A) the world in this way:^[a] He gave His One and Only^(B) Son,^(C) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.^(D)

The Righteous Will Live by Faith

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel,^[a](A) because it is God’s power for salvation^(B) to everyone who believes, first to the Jew,^(C) and also to the Greek.^{(D) 17} For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith,^[b](E) just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.^[c](F)[d]

² For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.^(A)

¹⁸ Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:^{(A) 19} That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world^(B) to Himself,^(C) not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors^(D) for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf,^(E) “Be reconciled to God.” ²¹ He made the One who did not know sin^(F) to be sin^[a] for us,^(G) so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.