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 soul, and  why  dost  thou trouble me?

Hope in  God,  for  I will still give  praise  to  him,  the salvation of  my  countenance, and my  God.

God so  loved  the  world  as to  give  his  only-begotten Son; that whosoever  believes in him  may  not  perish,  but may have  life  everlasting. For God  sent  not  his  Son into the  world  to  judge  the world, but  that  the  world may be  saved  by  him.

But if  any  man  sin,  we  have an Advocate  with  the  Father, Jesus Christ  the  just: and  he is  the  propitiation  for  our  sins, and not  for  ours  only,  but  also for those  of  the  whole  world.

Amen, amen,  I say  to  you, he that  hears  my  word,  and believes him  that  sent  me,  has everlasting life,  and  comes not into  judgment,  but  is passed  from  death  to  life.

All that  the  Father  gives me shall  come  to  me,  and  him that comes  to  me,  I will  not cast out. Amen, amen,  I say to you. He that  believes  in me  has  everlasting  life.

I am the  Resurrection  and the Life; he  that  believes  in me,  although  he  be  dead,  shall live; and every  one  that  lives and believes  in  me,  shall  not die for  ever.

If God  be  for  us,  who  is against  us? He that  spared not even  his  own  Son,  but delivered him  up  for  us  all, how has  he  not  also  with him given  us  all  things? Who shall  lay  anything  to the  charge  of  the  Elect  of God? God who  justifies. Who is  he  that  shall  condemn? Christ Jesus,  who died, yea,  who  rose  also again, who  is  at  the  right hand of  God,  who  also  makes intercession for  us.

None of  us  lives  to  himself, and no  man  dies  to  himself. For whether  we  live,  we  live to the  Lord; or  whether  we die,  we  die  to  the  Lord; therefore, whether  we  live, or whether  we  die,  we  are the Lord’s.

For we  know  that  if  our earthly house  of  this  habitation be  dissolved,  we  have a building of  God,  a house not made  with  hands,  eternal in  heaven. For in  this also we  groan,  desiring  to  be clothed  over  with  our  habitation that  is  from  heaven, yet so  that  we  may  be  found clothed, not  naked.

Now shall  Christ  be  magnified in  my  body,  whether  it be  by  life  or  by  death. For to me  to  live  is  Christ,  and  to die  is  gain. To be  with  Christ is by  much  the  better.