For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.  (Romans 3:23)

As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. (Romans 3:10)

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8)

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. (Romans 5:11)

…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.

He did this so we would praise and glorify him.

Ephesians 1:13-14

(Schonbrunn Palace–Marie Antoinette’s childhood summer home–Vienna, Austria)

And this is the plan:

At the right time he will bring everything together

under the authority of Christ—

everything in heaven and on earth.

Ephesians 1:10

(Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany)

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit 

in our lives:

love, joy, peace, patience, kindness

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, 

and self-control…

Galatians 5:22

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. 

Galatians 4:4-5

(Rooftop stork’s nest on Rothenberg’s medieval city wall in Bavaria, Germany)

But the Scriptures declare

that we are all prisoners of sin,

so we receive God’s promise of freedom

only by believing in Jesus Christ.

Galatians 3:22

(Sky full of Stones–1332 paper stones hanging during Lent in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, Austria)

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?

Galatians 3:3

…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.

Galatians 2:20

(Bamberg Cathedral)

Yet we know that a person is made right with God

by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law.

And we have believed in Christ Jesus,

so that we might be made right with God

because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law.

For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.

Galatians 2:16

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.

Galatians 1:4