2 Corinthians 5:15

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And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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1 Peter 4:2

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who also hath enabled me to be a minister of the new covenant, not of the literal sense, but of the spiritual meaning: it is the letter that denounces death, but the spirit gives life.

that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein.

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:

wherefore 'tis said, " awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

which were buried (as Christ was) in your baptism, by virtue of which you rise (as he did) to a new life, through a belief of that divine power, which raised him from the dead.

If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God.

for to this end was the gospel preach'd to those, who are now dead, that after having suffer'd the loss of this frail life from men, they might enjoy an immortal life with God.

by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

Henceforth

Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light.

considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin.

This I say therefore, and conjure you by the Lord not to live for the future as other Gentiles do, in the vanity of their minds,

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

Live unto

that we should be delivered from the power of our enemies, and serve him with security,

neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

thus I endeavour to be acceptable to all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of others, so as they may be saved.

for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ;

let your discourse and your actions be all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

that whether we happen to be alive or dead, we may be secure of living with him.

who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.

May the God of peace, who has raised from the dead our Lord Jesus (who by the blood of the eternal covenant is become the grand pastor of

I am he that liveth; I was dead; but now you see I am alive for all eternity, amen; and I have the keys of the grave, and of death."

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if ye love me, keep my commandments.

for we neither live, nor die, as if we were our own masters.

but you have learned other things from Christ,

let us love him; since he first loved us.