John 6:63
It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.
John 6:68
But Simon Peter answered: "Master, to whom shall we go? Immortal Life is in your teaching;
1 Corinthians 15:45
That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.
John 12:49-50
For I have not delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should deliver.
Romans 8:2
For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.
Romans 10:8-10
No, but what does it say? 'The Message of Faith' which we proclaim.
Galatians 5:25
Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.
Romans 10:17
And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the Message of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9-14
It is what Scripture speaks of as-'What eye never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered the mind of man-even all that God has prepared for those who love him.'
1 Corinthians 11:27-29
Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord's cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offence against the Lord's body and blood.
2 Corinthians 3:6-8
Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.
Galatians 6:15
For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God--because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of man, but as what it really is--the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.
1 Timothy 4:8
for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of Life both here and hereafter.
Hebrews 4:12
God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not let yourselves be carried away by the various novel forms of teaching. It is better to rely for spiritual strength upon the divine help, than upon regulations regarding food; for those whose lives are guided by such regulations have not found them of service.
James 1:18
Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.
1 Peter 1:23
since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all--the good on behalf of the bad--that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering upon new Life.
1 Peter 3:21
And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you--not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Romans 2:25
Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.
Romans 3:1-2
What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? or what is the good of circumcision?
Galatians 5:6
If a man is in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.