⁷ Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

¹⁰ For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

¹ But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

²¹ Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

³ Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.

²³ But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.

¹⁹ We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

⁸ Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

¹² So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

⁴ But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

⁵ Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

⁶ So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

⁷ That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

⁷ Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

¹² Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

²³ Whoever makes an offering of praise gives glory to me; and to him who is upright in his ways I will make clear the salvation of God.

⁶ O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

¹¹ For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.

⁵ I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

² And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.

³ And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.

⁴ You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

⁵ For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

¹⁶ In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.

³ Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

⁴ Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

⁵ Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

⁷ Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

²⁶ And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

²³ And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

¹⁷ So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

¹⁵ For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

⁶ Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

⁷ So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.