Salvation and beyond bible study

 

Here is a bible study which not only will give some salvation scriptures but also I am including various chapters to help grow and guide you beyond salvation.

My first chapter is Romans chapter 3 which explains that all have fallen short of God’s glory, and that none have done right but people can get the free gift of God through Jesus

(Romans 3:1)  What then is the superiority of the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

 

(Romans3:2)  Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

 

(Romans 3:3)  For what if some did not believe? Surely their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God?

 

(Romans 3:4)  Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, just as it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, and You may overcome when You are judged."

 

(Romans 3:5)  But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Surely God, the One inflicting wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I speak as a man.)

 

(Romans 3:6)  Certainly not! For otherwise how shall God judge the world?

 

(Romans 3:7)  For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

 

(Romans 3:8)  And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come"?--just as we are slandered, and just as some affirm that we say. The judgment of whom is just.

 

(Romans 3:9)  What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

 

(Romans 3:10)  Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,

 

(Romans 3:11)  There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

 

(Romans 3:12)  All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one."

 

(Romans 3:13)  "Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " the poison of asps is under their lips";

 

(Romans 3:14)  "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

 

(Romans 3:15)  Their feet are swift to shed blood;

 

(Romans 3:16)  Ruin and misery are in their ways;

 

(Romans 3:17)  And the way of peace they did not know.

 

(Romans 3:18)  There is no fear of God before their eyes."

 

(Romans 3:19)  Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

 

(Romans 3:20)  Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

 

(Romans 3:21)  But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,

 

(Romans 3:22)  even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

 

(Romans 3:23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

 

(Romans 3:24)  being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

 

(Romans 3:25)  whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

 

(Romans 3:26)  for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 

(Romans 3:27)  Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through the law of faith.

 

(Romans 3:28)  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

 

(Romans 3:29)  Or is He the God of the Jews only? But is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, also of Gentiles,

 

(Romans 3:30)  since there is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

 

(Romans 3:31)  Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.

 

Next John chapter 3 states that we must all be born again to see the kingdom of God and heaven, and also God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life in Him all in the powerful discussion between Jesus and Nicodemus, who came to Jesus at night to question Him on things

(John 3:1)  Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

 

(John 3:2)  This man came to Him by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him."

 

(John 3:3)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

 

(John 3:4)  Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born, being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

 

(John 3:5)  Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless someone is born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

 

(John 3:6)  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

 

(John 3:7)  Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

 

(John 3:8)  "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit."

 

(John 3:9)  Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?"

 

(John 3:10)  Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

 

(John 3:11)  Most assuredly I say to you, that which We know, We speak, and that which We have seen, We bear witness to, and you do not receive Our witness.

 

(John 3:12)  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

 

(John 3:13)  And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

 

(John 3:14)  And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

 

(John 3:15)  that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

 

(John 3:16)  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

(John 3:17)  For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

 

(John 3:18)  He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

(John 3:19)  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

 

(John 3:20)  For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

 

(John 3:21)  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

 

(John 3:22)  After these things Jesus, along with His disciples, came into the land of Judea, and there He was stayed with them and He was baptizing.

 

(John 3:23)  Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

 

(John 3:24)  For John was not yet cast into prison.

 

(John 3:25)  Then there came to be a dispute between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

 

(John 3:26)  And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified--behold, this Man is baptizing, and all men are coming to Him!"

 

(John 3:27)  John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

 

(John 3:28)  You yourselves bear witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before Him.'

 

(John 3:29)  "He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore my joy has been fulfilled.

 

(John 3:30)  He must increase, but I must decrease.

 

(John 3:31)  He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

 

(John 3:32)  And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

 

(John 3:33)  He who receives His testimony has certified that God is true.

 

(John 3:34)  For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

 

(John 3:35)  The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

 

(John 3:36)  He who believes in the Son has eternal life; and he who does not believe the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

 

Romans chapter 5 explains at just the right time Jesus died for the ungodly in the world and that while we were still yet sinners Jesus did indeed die for us bringing redemption of our sins and as a result, salvation

(Romans 5:1)  Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

(Romans 5:2)  through whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

 

(Romans 5:3)  And not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance;

 

(Romans 5:4)  and endurance, character; and character, hope.

 

(Romans 5:5)  And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

 

(Romans 5:6)  For while we were still weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

 

(Romans 5:7)  For scarcely on behalf of a righteous man will anyone die; yet on behalf of the good, perhaps someone might even dare to die.

 

(Romans 5:8)  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

 

(Romans 5:9)  Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

 

(Romans 5:10)  For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

 

(Romans 5:11)  And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we received the reconciliation.

 

(Romans 5:12)  Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned--

 

(Romans 5:13)  (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

 

(Romans 5:14)  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

 

(Romans 5:15)  But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of one man many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to the many.

 

(Romans 5:16)  And the gift is not as by one having sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift from many offenses resulted in justification.

 

(Romans 5:17)  For if by the offense of the one man death reigned through the one man, much more those receiving the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

 

(Romans 5:18)  Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

 

(Romans 5:19)  For through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One many shall be constituted righteous.

 

(Romans 5:20)  But the law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

 

(Romans 5:21)  so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

John chapter 10 is where Jesus speaks how He is the door and the good shepherd and His sheep follow Him and how He will give His life for His sheep and give them eternal life.

(John 10:1)  "Most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

 

(John 10:2)  But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

 

(John 10:3)  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out.

 

(John 10:4)  And whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

 

(John 10:5)  But they will by no means follow a stranger, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

 

(John 10:6)  This illustration Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

 

(John 10:7)  Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

 

(John 10:8)  All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

 

(John 10:9)  I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

 

(John 10:10)  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

 

(John 10:11)  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:12)  But a hired hand, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

 

(John 10:13)  But the hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and is not concerned about the sheep.

 

(John 10:14)  I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and I am known by My own.

 

(John 10:15)  Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

 

(John 10:16)  And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.

 

(John 10:17)  Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.

 

(John 10:18)  No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father."

 

(John 10:19)  Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

 

(John 10:20)  And many of them said, "He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to Him?"

 

(John 10:21)  Others said, "These are not the words of one being demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"

 

(John 10:22)  Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

 

(John 10:23)  And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's Porch.

 

(John 10:24)  Then the Jews encircled Him and said to Him, "How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly."

 

(John 10:25)  Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, these things testify about Me.

 

(John 10:26)  But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, just as I said to you.

 

(John 10:27)  My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

 

(John 10:28)  And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

 

(John 10:29)  My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.

 

(John 10:30)  I and the Father are one."

 

(John 10:31)  Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

 

(John 10:32)  Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

 

(John 10:33)  The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

 

(John 10:34)  Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

 

(John 10:35)  If He called those gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

 

(John 10:36)  do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

 

(John 10:37)  If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

 

(John 10:38)  but if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

 

(John 10:39)  Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.

 

(John 10:40)  And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He stayed there.

 

(John 10:41)  And many came to Him and said, "John indeed performed no sign, but everything which John said about this Man was true."

 

(John 10:42)  And many believed in Him there.

 

Romans chapter 10, the chapter which gives the instructions of salvation, which is to confess Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead so you will be saved, has other things too, including that we must hear by the word of God

(Romans 10:1)  Brothers, the good pleasure of my heart and my supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is for their salvation.

 

(Romans 10:2)  For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

 

(Romans 10:3)  For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

 

(Romans 10:4)  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes.

 

(Romans 10:5)  For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who does those things shall live by them."

 

(Romans 10:6)  But the righteousness of faith says thus, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' " (that is, to bring Christ down)

 

(Romans 10:7)  or, " 'Who shall descend into the abyss?' " (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead).

 

(Romans 10:8)  But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we proclaim):

 

(Romans 10:9)  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

 

(Romans 10:10)  For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

 

(Romans 10:11)  For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

 

(Romans 10:12)  For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him.

 

(Romans 10:13)  For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."

 

(Romans 10:14)  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear apart from a preacher?

 

(Romans 10:15)  And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"

 

(Romans 10:16)  But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

 

(Romans 10:17)  So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

(Romans 10:18)  But I say, have they not heard? Yes, indeed they have: "Their voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

 

(Romans 10:19)  But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, by an unintelligent nation I will anger you."

 

(Romans 10:20)  But Isaiah is very bold and says: "I was found by those who did not seek Me; I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me."

 

(Romans 10:21)  But to Israel he says: "the whole day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

 

This part of the study is to provide encouragement to both the newly saved and mature Christians. First I am using the four chapters in John, 14 through 17 where Jesus addresses and then prays for His disciples right before going to the cross to die for all of our sins.

In John chapter 14 Jesus makes many promises such as making a place for us in heaven, coming to retrieve us (rapture implied), that we can do all Jesus has done in His ministry  and more and also to ask for He can and will do many things for us as will his Father. He promises the Holy Spirit as well. He does say though that He, Jesus is the only way to the Father (and as a result to heaven). Jesus also promises to give us His peace

(John 14:1)  "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

 

(John 14:2)  In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

 

(John 14:3)  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will receive you unto Myself; so that where I am, there you may be also.

 

(John 14:4)  And where I am going you know, and the way you know."

 

(John 14:5)  Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?"

 

(John 14:6)  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

 

(John 14:7)  "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and you have seen Him."

 

(John 14:8)  Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."

 

(John 14:9)  Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He that has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

 

(John 14:10)  Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who abides in Me does the works.

 

(John 14:11)  Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, but if not, believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

 

(John 14:12)  "Most assuredly I say to you, he that believes in Me, the works which I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

 

(John 14:13)  And whatever you may ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 

(John 14:14)  If you should ask anything in My name, I will do it.

 

(John 14:15)  "If you love Me, keep My commandments.

 

(John 14:16)  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may abide with you forever,

 

(John 14:17)  the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you.

 

(John 14:18)  I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.

 

(John 14:19)  "Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

 

(John 14:20)  In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

 

(John 14:21)  He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him."

 

(John 14:22)  Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, and what has happened that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?"

 

(John 14:23)  Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make Our home with him.

 

(John 14:24)  He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

 

(John 14:25)  "These things I have spoken to you while I remain.

 

(John 14:26)  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and will remind you of all things which I said to you.

 

(John 14:27)  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

 

(John 14:28)  You have heard that I said to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater than I.

 

(John 14:29)  And now I have told you before it happens, so that whenever it may happen, you may believe.

 

(John 14:30)  I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

 

(John 14:31)  But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has charged Me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go from here.

 

In John chapter 15 Jesus gives a powerful teaching stating that He is the vine and we the branches and apart from Him we can do nothing nor bear fruit, yet the Father will prune us to bear even more fruit. He restates His commandment to love one another and that He would call us friends too for doing so. People will do to us as they did Him, too, for the world now has no excuse for their sin- as it has been revealed and some will hate because of that. He also restates the promise of the Holy Spirit as helper

(John 15:1)  "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

 

(John 15:2)  Every branch in Me which does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch which bears fruit He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

 

(John 15:3)  You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

 

(John 15:4)  Abide in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit on its own, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

 

(John 15:5)  I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing.

 

(John 15:6)  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

 

(John 15:7)  If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what ever you may desire, and it shall be done for you.

 

(John 15:8)  By this My Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and you will become My disciples.

 

(John 15:9)  "Just as the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

 

(John 15:10)  If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.

 

(John 15:11)  These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may abide in you, and that your joy may be full.

 

(John 15:12)  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

 

(John 15:13)  Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

 

(John 15:14)  You are My friends if you do what I command you.

 

(John 15:15)  No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

 

(John 15:16)  You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

 

(John 15:17)  These things I command you, that you may love one another.

 

(John 15:18)  "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

 

(John 15:19)  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

 

(John 15:20)  Remember the word which I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

 

(John 15:21)  But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

 

(John 15:22)  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.

 

(John 15:23)  He who hates Me hates My Father also.

 

(John 15:24)  If I had not done the works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.

 

(John 15:25)  But this was so that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without cause.'

 

(John 15:26)  "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me.

 

(John 15:27)  And you also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

 

In John chapter 16 Jesus says that He makes these teachings so that we might not stumble, and also states that the Holy Spirit comes to convict the world of sin. He also makes many promises to His disciples then and now such as of those of peace and joy and encourages us to ask Him for things so that we can have and that our joy may be made full (in Him)

(John 16:1)  "These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.

 

(John 16:2)  They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

 

(John 16:3)  And these things they will do to you because they did not know the Father nor Me.

 

(John 16:4)  But these things I have spoken to you, so that when the time comes, you may remember them, that I told you. But these things I did not say to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

 

(John 16:5)  "But now I am going to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, 'Where are You going?'

 

(John 16:6)  "But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

 

(John 16:7)  Nevertheless I speak the truth to you. It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

 

(John 16:8)  And when He comes, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

 

(John 16:9)  of sin, because they do not believe in Me;

 

(John 16:10)  of righteousness, because I am going to My Father and you see Me no more;

 

(John 16:11)  of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

 

(John 16:12)  I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

 

(John 16:13)  However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will announce to you things to come.

 

(John 16:14)  He will glorify Me, for He will take from what is Mine and He will announce it to you.

 

(John 16:15)  All things which the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He takes from what is Mine and will announce it to you.

 

(John 16:16)  "A little while and you will not see Me; and again a little while and you will see Me, because I am going to the Father."

 

(John 16:17)  Then some of His disciples said to one another, "What is this that He says to us, 'A little while and you will not see Me; and again a little while and you will see Me'; and, 'I am going to the Father'?"

 

(John 16:18)  Therefore they said, "What is this that He says, 'A little while'? We do not understand what He is saying."

 

(John 16:19)  Now Jesus knew that they were desiring to ask Him, and He said to them, "Are you inquiring with one another that I said, 'A little while and you will not see Me; and again a little while and you will see Me'?

 

(John 16:20)  Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy.

 

(John 16:21)  A woman, whenever she gives birth, has sorrow, because her hour has come; but whenever the child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

 

(John 16:22)  Therefore you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

 

(John 16:23)  And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.

 

(John 16:24)  Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

 

(John 16:25)  "These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

 

(John 16:26)  In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will beseech the Father for you;

 

(John 16:27)  for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

 

(John 16:28)  I came forth from the Father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father."

 

(John 16:29)  His disciples said to Him, "See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech!

 

(John 16:30)  Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God."

 

(John 16:31)  Jesus answered them, "Now do you believe?

 

(John 16:32)  Indeed a time is coming, and now has come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

 

(John 16:33)  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but have courage, I have overcome the world."

 

In John chapter 17 Jesus then prays to the Father for the sake of His disciples and for them too, asking the Father to help them and keep them from the evil one and many other things. It is a powerful prayer

(John 17:1)  Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,

 

(John 17:2)  just as You have given Him authority over all flesh, so that He will give eternal life to all You have given Him.

 

(John 17:3)  And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

 

(John 17:4)  I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

 

(John 17:5)  And now, O Father, glorify Me alongside Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

 

(John 17:6)  I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You have given them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

 

(John 17:7)  Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.

 

(John 17:8)  Because I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and they knew truly that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.

 

(John 17:9)  I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.

 

(John 17:10)  And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I have been glorified in them.

 

(John 17:11)  And I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to Me, that they may be one just as We are.

 

(John 17:12)  When I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You have given Me I guarded; and not one of them is lost except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

 

(John 17:13)  But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

 

(John 17:14)  I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

 

(John 17:15)  I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

 

(John 17:16)  They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

 

(John 17:17)  Sanctify them by Your truth; Your word is truth.

 

(John 17:18)  Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

 

(John 17:19)  And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

 

(John 17:20)  "I am not praying for these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word;

 

(John 17:21)  so that they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

 

(John 17:22)  And the glory which You have given to Me, I have given to them, so that they may be one just as We are one:

 

(John 17:23)  I in them, and You in Me; so that they may be perfected in unity, and so that the world may know that You have sent Me, and You loved them just as You loved Me.

 

(John 17:24)  Father, I desire that those also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, so that they may behold My glory which You gave to Me; because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

 

(John 17:25)  O righteous Father! Indeed the world did not know You, yet I knew You; and these knew that You sent Me.

 

(John 17:26)  And I made known to them Your name, and I will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

 

I conclude this with Romans chapter 8, about the war of the flesh and spirit, the flesh leading to Christ but the Spirit to life, but reminds us that we are all sons of God and even cry Abba, Father. The end makes powerful promises that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ absolutely nothing

(Romans 8:1)  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

 

(Romans 8:2)  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

 

(Romans 8:3)  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

 

(Romans 8:4)  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

(Romans 8:5)  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

 

(Romans 8:6)  For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

 

(Romans 8:7)  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

 

(Romans 8:8)  Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

(Romans 8:9)  You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

 

(Romans 8:10)  But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

 

(Romans 8:11)  If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

 

(Romans 8:12)  So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

 

(Romans 8:13)  For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

 

(Romans 8:14)  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

 

(Romans 8:15)  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

 

(Romans 8:16)  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

 

(Romans 8:17)  and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

 

(Romans 8:18)  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

 

(Romans 8:19)  For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

 

(Romans 8:20)  For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

 

(Romans 8:21)  that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

 

(Romans 8:22)  For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

 

(Romans 8:23)  And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

 

(Romans 8:24)  For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

 

(Romans 8:25)  But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

 

(Romans 8:26)  Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

 

(Romans 8:27)  And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

 

(Romans 8:28)  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

 

(Romans 8:29)  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

 

(Romans 8:30)  And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

 

(Romans 8:31)  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

 

(Romans 8:32)  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

 

(Romans 8:33)  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

 

(Romans 8:34)  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

 

(Romans 8:35)  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

 

(Romans 8:36)  As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

 

(Romans 8:37)  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

 

(Romans 8:38)  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

 

(Romans 8:39)  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Jesus showed His love towards man by being the redemption force, dying on the cross willingly and out of love, to make atonement for all of our sins, wanting to have relationship restored between man and God which was severed by those sins. This is that powerful love relationship that comes as a gift from God and is NOT anything we can earn ourselves. This relationship with God is powerful and there is nothing that can compare or come remotely close to it, nothing at all. I am now including a prayer which will invite Jesus into your heart to begin this love relationship with Him, so please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

 

God bless you and yours