When everything was ready,
the LORD said to Noah,
“Go into the boat with all your family,
for among all the people of the earth,
I can see that you alone are righteous
When everything was ready,
the LORD said to Noah,
“Go into the boat with all your family,
for among all the people of the earth,
I can see that you alone are righteous
But Noah found favor with the LORD.
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
But those who drink the water I give
will never be thirsty again.
It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them,
giving them eternal life.
…when you believed in Christ,
he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit,
whom he promised long ago.
The Spirit is God’s guarantee
that he will give us the inheritance he promised
and that he has purchased us to be his own people…
…those who live to please the Spirit
will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good.
At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing
if we don’t give up.
Since we are living by the Spirit,
let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
But when the right time came,
God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law,
so that he could adopt us as his very own children.
How foolish can you be?
After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit,
why are you now trying to become perfect
by your own human effort?
…Christ lives in me.
So I live in this earthly body
by trusting in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jesus gave his life for our sins,
just as God our Father planned,
in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.