 But God has come to us in Jesus, and he has been seeking us even as we turned away from him. And then he came among us as his son, and Jesus died in our place for the sinfulness that humanity bears, so that we might know great hope, great salvation, and the promise of eternal life. And then we also might walk in the newness of life, in a new nature. And all of this culminates in Romans chapter 8. And then Paul says,