1 Corinthians 15:20

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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,

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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

He must increase, but I must decrease.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

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,

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

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

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

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.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

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.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

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.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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.

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

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

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

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

Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

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.”

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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.

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,

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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—

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

“ ‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

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.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.

You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits to Yahweh.

Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.

“ ‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;

that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.

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.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.