Soon he began to go to the synagogues and tell people about Jesus. He told the people, “Jesus is the Son of God!”

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one that Silas, Timothy, and I told you about was not yes and no. In Christ it has always been yes.

So I am not the one living now—it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God. He is the one who loved me and gave himself to save me.

This work must continue until we are all joined together in what we believe and in what we know about the Son of God. Our goal is to become like a full-grown man—to look just like Christ and have all his perfection.

The Son of God Is the Same as God

No one can see God, but the Son is exactly like God. He rules over everything that has been made.

Jesus Christ Is Our High Priest

We have a great high priest who has gone to live with God in heaven. He is Jesus the Son of God. So let us continue to express our faith in him.

Jesus was the Son of God, but he still suffered, and through his sufferings he learned to obey whatever God says.

No one knows who his father or mother was or where he came from. And no one knows when he was born or when he died. Melchizedek is like the Son of God in that he will always be a priest.

So think how much more punishment people deserve who show their hate for the Son of God—people who show they have no respect for the blood sacrifice that began the new agreement and once made them holy or who insult the Spirit of God’s grace.

The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.

Anyone who says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” is a person who lives in God, and God lives in that person.

It is our faith that has won the victory against the world. So who wins against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Whoever believes in the Son of God has the truth that God told us. But people who do not believe God make God a liar, because they do not believe what God told us about his Son.

Whoever has the Son has life, but whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

We Have Eternal Life Now

I write this letter to you who believe in the Son of God. I write so that you will know that you have eternal life now.

We know that those who have been made God’s children do not continue to sin. The Son of God keeps them safe. The Evil One cannot hurt them.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. So now we can know the one who is true, and we live in that true God. We are in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and he is eternal life.

Jesus’ Letter to the Church in Thyatira

“Write this to the angel of the church in Thyatira: “Here is a message from the Son of God, the one who has eyes that blaze like fire and feet like shining brass.