9 God can be trusted, and he chose you to be partners with his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

16 *All of you surely know you are God’s temple and his Spirit lives in you.

12 *The body of Christ has many different parts, just as any other body does.

16 *Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says,

"I will live with these people

and walk among them.

I will be their God,

and they will be

my people."

17 Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new. 18 God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.

19 What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace.

20 Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.

3 *I heard a loud voice shout from the throne:

God’s home is now with his people. He will live with them, and they will be his own. Yes, God will make his home among his people.

45 I will live among you as your God,

20 Whenever two or three of you come together in my name,* I am there with you.

20 I am not praying just for these followers. I am also praying for everyone else who will have faith because of what my followers will say about me. 21 I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.

22 I have honored my followers in the same way you honored me, in order that they may be one with each other, just as we are one. 23 I am one with them, and you are one with me, so they may become completely one. Then this world’s people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.

24 If we obey God’s commandments, we will stay one in our hearts with him, and he will stay one with us. The Spirit he has given us is proof that we are one with him.

20 We know that Jesus Christ the Son of God has come and has shown us the true God. And because of Jesus, we now belong to the true God who gives eternal life.

13 God has given us his Spirit. This is how we know we are one with him, just as he is one with us.

7 My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows we have been given new life. We are now God’s children, and we know him.

3 We are telling you what we have seen and heard, so you may share in this life with us. And we share in it with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

28 Children, stay one in your hearts with Christ. Then when he returns, we will have confidence and won’t have to hide in shame.

1 By faith we have been made acceptable to God. And now, thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ, we have peace* with God. 2 Christ has also introduced us* to God’s gift of undeserved grace on which we now take our stand. So we are happy, as we look forward to sharing in the glory of God.

22 *So let’s come near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith. Let’s keep our hearts pure, our consciences free from evil, and our bodies washed with clean water.

7 Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you. 8 Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can’t make up your mind.