Ephesians 2:5

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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.

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.

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.

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

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

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

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.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“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.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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.”

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

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.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

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.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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.

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

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

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.

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 the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

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

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

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?

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.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

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

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.