1 Corinthians 15:13

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”

For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.