Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.

For many are called, but few are chosen.”

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

So that being justified by his grace we might be heirs according to the hope of eternal life.