For if with your lips you acknowledge the fact that Jesus is Lord, and in your hearts you believe that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

and everyone should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the praise of God the Father.

Before God who preserves the life of all His creatures and before Christ Jesus who in testifying before Pontius Pilate made His good profession, I solemnly charge you

I tell you, everyone who owns me before men the Son of Man will own before the angels of God;

and were baptized by him in the Jordan River, as one by one they continued to confess their sins.

Therefore, everyone who will own me before men I will own before my Father in heaven,

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

Whoever owns that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in union with him and he in union with God.

For in their hearts people exercise the faith that leads to right standing, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment which means salvation.

In this way you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spiritual utterance which owns that Jesus Christ has come in human form comes from God,

So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

So then, through Christ, let us always offer God the sacrifice of praise; that is, the speech of lips that glorify the name of God.

for the Scripture says: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God.'"

So I want to inform you that no one speaking under the power of the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed!" and no one except one under the power of the Holy Spirit can really say, "Jesus is Lord!"

And many who became believers kept coming and confessing and uncovering their former practices.

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

And people from all over Judea and everybody in Jerusalem kept on going out to him and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld,

No one who disowns the Son can have the Father. Whoever owns the Son has the Father too.

These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.