For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, because of this, even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.
For God’s wrath is revealed from Heaven on all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, holding the truth in unrighteousness, because the thing known of God is clearly known within them, for God revealed it to them. For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
God commends His love to us in this, that we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any to perish, but all to come to repentance. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
Which is easier, to say, Your sins have been forgiven you, or to say, Rise up and walk? For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the one being lost.
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If one is not generated from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He then said to them, Go into all the world, preach the gospel to all the creation. The one believing and being baptized will be saved. And the one not believing will be condemned.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because of this He anointed Me to proclaim the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me” to heal the broken-hearted, “to proclaim remission to captives, and to the blind to see again,” to send away the ones being crushed, in remission, “to preach an acceptable year of the Lord.” (Isa. 61:1- 2)
