Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

This Power Made Us Alive From The Dead And Seated Us With Christ As Recipients of Grace

2 Indeed, you were dead in your trespasses and sins ² in which you formerly walked in accordance with the [present] age^[a] of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the authority^[b] of the air, of ^[c] the spirit^[d] now being at-work in the sons of ^[e] disobedience, ³ among whom even we all formerly conducted-ourselves^[f] in the desires of our flesh, doing the wants^[g] of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of ^[h] wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in trespasses, made-us-alive-with Christ— by grace you are saved— ⁶ and raised-us-with Him and seated-us-with Him in the heavenly-places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that He might demonstrate^[i] in the coming ages^[j] the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For We Are Saved By Grace For The Good Works Which God Prepared For Us

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith. And this^[k] is not from you. It is the gift of God— ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared-beforehand in order that we might walk in them.

¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted-up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up ¹⁵ in order that everyone putting-faith in Him may have^[a] eternal life.

God Sent His Son Into The World That All Believing In Him May Have Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For^[b] God so^[c] loved the world that He gave His only-born Son, in order that everyone believing in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send-forth the Son into the world in order that He might judge^[d] the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸ The one believing in Him is not judged. But the one not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-born Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment^[e]: that the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing bad things hates the Light, and does not come to the Light in order that his works may not be exposed. ²¹ But the one doing the truth comes to the Light in order that his works may become-visible— that^[f] they have been worked in^[g] God”.