Rom. 8:1‑39• 1There is therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death.
3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in likeness of flesh of sin and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
4that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us that walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.
5For those that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6For the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit [is] life and peace;
7because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for indeed it cannot;
8but those that are in flesh cannot please God.
9Ye however are not in flesh but in Spirit, if so be God's Spirit dwell in you. But if anyone has not Christ's Spirit, he is not of him.
10But if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead on account of sin, and the Spirit life on account of righteousness.
11But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus out of [the] dead dwell in you, he that raised Christ out of [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12So then, brethren, debtors we are not to the flesh to live according to flesh;
13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if by [the] Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14For as many as are being led by God's Spirit, these are God's sons.
15For ye received not a spirit of bondage again unto fear, but ye received a Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father.
16The Spirit itself jointly testifieth with our Spirit that we are God's children;
17and, if children, heirs also; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if at least we suffer together, that we may also together be glorified.
18For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time [are] not worthy of comparison with the glory about to be revealed in regard to us.
19For the earnest expectation of the creation awaiteth the revelation of the sons of God.
20For to vanity the creation was subjected, not willingly but on account of him that subjected [it], in hope
21that the creation itself too shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22For we know that all the creation groaneth together and travaileth together until now;
23and not only [so], but ourselves too, having the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves within ourselves are groaning, awaiting [the] adoption, the redemption of our body.
24For by hope were we saved; but hope seen is no hope; for what one seeth, why also doth he hope for [it]?
25But if we hope for what we do not see, in patience we await.
26And likewise too the Spirit joineth help to our weakness; for what we should pray for as we ought we know not, but the Spirit itself pleadeth [for us] with unutterable groanings;
27and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because according to God it pleadeth in behalf of saints.
28But we do know that all things work together for good to those that love God, to those that are called according to purpose.
29For whom he foreknew, he also predetermined [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he should be first-born among many brethren.
30But whom he predetermined, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he justified, and whom he justified, them also he glorified.
31What then shall we say to these things? If God [be] for us, who against us?
32He at least that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely grant us all things?
33Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth:
34who is he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather risen too, who is also at [the] right hand of God, who also pleadeth for us:
35who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36according as it is written, “For thy sake are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep of slaughter.”
37But in all these things we more than overcome by him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:1‑39)
1 Cor. 15:1‑58• 1And I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,
2by which also ye are being saved, if ye hold fast with what discourse I announced [it] to you, unless ye believed lightly.
3For I delivered to you, in the first place, that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third day according to the scriptures;
5and that he appeared to Cephas, after that to the twelve.
6After that he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain till now, but some also have fallen asleep.
7After that he appeared to James, after that to all the apostles;
8and last of all, as to the abortion, he appeared to me also.
9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God;
10but by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me.
11Whether then I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye believed.
12But if Christ is preached that he is raised from [the] dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of [the] dead?
13But if there is no resurrection of [the] dead, neither is Christ raised;
14and if Christ is not raised, then also empty [is] our preaching, and empty also your faith;
15and we are also found false witnesses of God, because we witnessed concerning God that he raised the Christ, whom he raised not, if indeed no dead are raised.
16For if no dead are raised, neither is Christ raised;
17and if Christ is not raised, vain [is] your faith; ye are yet in your sins;
18then also those that fell asleep in Christ perished.
19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are most to be pitied of all men.
20But now is Christ raised from [the] dead, firstfruit of those fallen asleep.
21For since by man [is] death, by man also resurrection of dead.
22For as in the Adam all die, so also in the Christ shall all be made alive;
23but each in his own rank: [the] firstfruit Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming;
24then the end, when he giveth up the kingdom to him [who is] God and Father, when he shall have done away all rule, and all authority, and power.
25For he must reign until he put all the enemies under his feet.
26Death, last enemy, is to be done away.
27For he subjected all things under his feet. But when he saith that all things have been subjected, [it is] manifest that [it is] except him who subjected all things to him.
28But when all things shall have been subjected to him, then also the Son himself will be subjected to him that subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.
29Else what shall they do that are being baptized for the dead? If no dead rise at all, why also are they baptized for them?
30Why are we also in danger every hour?
31Daily I die, by the boasting of you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
32If after man I fought with beasts in Ephesus, what [is] the profit to me? If no dead rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
34Wake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak unto your shame.
35But someone will say, How are the dead to rise? and with what body do they come?
36Fool, what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die;
37and what thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may be of wheat, or of some one of the rest;
38and God giveth to it a body as he pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.
39Every flesh [is] not the same flesh, but one [is] of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.
40[There are] both bodies heavenly and bodies earthly; but different [is] the glory of the heavenly, and different that of the earthly:
41one [the] sun's glory, and another [the] moon's glory, and another [the] stars' glory; for star differeth from star in glory.
42So also [is] the resurrection of the dead.
43It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual.
45So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening Spirit:
46yet not first [is] the spiritual, but the natural, afterward the spiritual;
47the first man out of the earth made of dust, the second man out of heaven:
48as [is] he made of dust, such also those made of dust; and as [is] the heavenly [one], such also the heavenly [ones];
49and even as we bore the image of the [one] made of dust, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly [ones].
50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52in an instant, in [the] twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for it shall sound, and the dead shall rise incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality.
54But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written, Death was swallowed up in victory.
55Where, death, [is] thy victory? where, death, thy sting?
56Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law;
57but thanks to God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58Wherefore, my brethren beloved, be firm, immoveable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your toil is not empty in [the] Lord. (1 Cor. 15:1‑58)
1 Thess. 4:1‑5:28• 1Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still more.
2For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
4that each of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
5not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God;
6that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified.
7For God called us not for uncleanness but in sanctification.
8Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you.
9Now concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that we write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
10for, indeed, ye do it toward all the brethren that are in the whole of Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound still more,
11and that ye make it your aim to be quiet and mind your own affairs and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
12that ye may walk honourably toward those without, and may have need of nothing.
13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that fall asleep; that ye be not grieved even as the rest also that have no hope.
14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those put to sleep through Jesus will God bring with him.
15For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that we, the living that remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede those put to sleep;
16because the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout of command, with archangel's voice, and with trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
17then we, the living that remain, shall be caught up together with them in clouds to meet [the] Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18So then encourage one another with these words.
1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need to be written to.
2For yourselves know thoroughly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief at night.
3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief;
5for ye all are sons of light and sons of day: we are not of night nor of darkness.
6So, then, let us not sleep as [do] the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep by night, and they that are drunk drink by night;
8but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and hope of salvation as helmet.
9Because God did not appoint us unto wrath, but unto obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ
10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.
11Therefore encourage one another, and edify each other, even as also ye do.
12Now we beseech you, brethren, to know those that labour among you and are over you in [the] Lord and admonish you,
13and to esteem them exceedingly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all.
15See that none render to anyone evil for evil, but always pursue that which is good one toward another, and toward all.
16Rejoice always;
17pray unceasingly;
18in everything give thanks, for this [is] God's will in Christ Jesus toward you.
19Quench not the Spirit;
20despise not prophecies;
21but prove all things; hold fast that which is good;
22abstain from every form of evil.
23Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul and body be preserved entire without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24Faithful [is] he that calleth, who will also do [it].
25Brethren, pray for us.
26Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
27I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the [holy] brethren.
28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. (1 Thess. 4:1‑5:28)