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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Henceforth

1 Peter 4:2

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and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

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

Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

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

As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live.

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Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

Live unto

that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

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

you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number ??at their salvation.

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

who died for us that waking in life or sleeping in death we should live together with him.

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

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If you love me you will keep my commands,

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

That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ

We love, because He loved us first.