Author name: Karyn Woodhouse

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.