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12Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
³And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
⁴So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Psalm 121

¹I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
²My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
⁴Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
⁵The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
⁶The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
⁷The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
⁸The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

4What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
²For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
⁴Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
⁵But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
¹³For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
¹⁴For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
¹⁵Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
¹⁶Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
¹⁷(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

3There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
⁴Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
⁵Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
⁸The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
⁹Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
¹¹Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
¹²If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
¹³And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.