2 Corinthians 5:15

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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 have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

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

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

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

in whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

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.

to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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.

Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,