Acts 25:19

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

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.”

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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.

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.

You are witnesses of these things.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

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

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

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.

“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.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

“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:

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.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

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

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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.